Climbing Up to Glory (43 page)

Abbott, Anderson

Adams, Henry

Addeman, J. M.

Adoption

African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church; General Conference

African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) Church

CSS
Alabama

Albright, George Washington

Alcoholism

Alford, Barney

Allen, Benjamin

Allen, Hannah

Allen, John

Allen, Rachel

Allen, Thomas

Allen, W. B.

Allen University

Alston, Miss

Alvord, John W.

American Equal Rights Association (AERA)

American Medical Association

American Missionary Association (AMA); founds or purchases colleges

American Woman Suffrage Association

Ames, Alexander

Ames, Mary

Amnesty Proclamation of

Anderson, James

Anderson, John P.

Anderson, Louisa

Anderson, Milly

Anderson, Robert J.

Andersonville Prison

Andrews, Eliza

Andrews, Sidney

Anthony, Susan B.

Anti-Slavery Reporter

Antonine. C.

Apprenticeship

Armstrong, Jennie

Armstrong, Samuel Chapman

Army, Confederate: debate on arming African Americans; realities harsh for; recruits in South

Army, Union: black men forced to become laborers for; blacks joining

Ashley, James

Ashmore, Charlie

Ates, Caroline

Atkins, Lizzie

Atlanta University

Attucks, Crispus

Augusta, Alexander T.

Austin, Hattie

Ayers, James T.

Bailey, Tolbert

Baker, Hager Ann

Baker, Lizzie

Baker, Wallace

Baltimore, William

Banks

Banks, Anna DeCosta

Banks, Elizabeth

Banks, Evangeline

Banks, John

Banks, N. P.

Banks, Sammy

Baptists and Baptist Church

Barber, Ed

Barber, Mollie

Barber-Scotia College

Barbour, Mary

Barksdale, Penny

Bates, Millie

Beals, Harriet

Beasley, Robert

Beckett, Harrison

Beecher, Frances

Beecher, Henry Ward

Beecher, James

Bell, Charlie

Bell, Laura

Benedict, Augustus W.

Benedict College

Benevolent and aid societies.
See also
Freedmen's Bureau

Bennett College

Berry, Dick

Best, Nathan

Black, Dan

Black, Jessie

Black, Sarah Ann

Black, Tamsey

Blackley, Annie

Blocker, Irena

Body servants

Boggan, Manda

Boles, John

Bolton, James

Bonner, Lewis

Boone, Andrew

Booth, Ella

Booth, John Wilkes

Border states

Bormer, Betty

Boston Massacre

Botume, Elizabeth Hyde

Bowles, John R.

Bowser, Elizabeth

Boyd, Belle

Bradford, Elodga

Bradley, Edmond

Bradley, Solomon

Bradshaw, Tillman

Bratcher, Minerva

Bremer, Fredrika

Brewer, Dora

Brittian, James

Brock, John C.

Brooke, Edward

Brooks, Dandridge

Brooks, James

Brooks, William

Brown, Caesar

Brown, Charlotte

Brown, Clara

Brown, Dinah

Brown, Emily

Brown, F. H.

Brown, George

Brown, James

Brown, John

Brown, Joseph

Brown, Mary

Brown, Mary Jane

Brown, Washington

Brown Fellowship Society of Charleston

Bruce, Blanch K.

Bryant, David

Bryant, Furney

Bryant, William

Buchanan, Alfred

Buchanan, Harriet

Buffalo Soldiers

Bullitt, Sandy

Burbridge, Stephen G.

Burnside, John

Burrell, Wesley

Burson, Sebe

Burton, Annie L.

Burton, Martha

Businesses, black; failed

Butler, Benjamin

Butler, Gabe

Butler, Henry

Byrd, Dave

Cain, Richard H.

Calloway, Jane Johnson

Camp Nelson

Cancer, Polly Turner

Cardozo, Francis L.

Cardozo, T. W.

Cardozo, Thomas

Carey, Mary Ann Shadd

Carpenters

Carruthers, Richard

Carter, Anthony E.

Carter, Cato

Carter, Lucy

Carter, Nelson

Caulkers

Chamberlain, Daniel

Chapman, Hannah

Charleston, South Carolina; churches in; liberation and Union occupation of; schools in

Charleston Mercury

Chase, G. Thurston

Chase, Jordan

Chase, Sarah

Cheatham, John J.

Cherokee freedmen; struggle of

Cherokee Nation

Chesapeake Marine Railroad and Dry Dock Company

Chester, Thomas Morris

Chestnut, A. J.

Chickasaw Nation

Child labor.
See also
Apprenticeship

Children, black: impact of war on; punishment of; white children teaching.
See also
Families

Childs, Mary

Child support

Chiles, George Washington

Chiriqui colonization scheme

Choctaw Nation

Christian Index

Christian Recorder

Churches; antebellum; biracial; blacks' struggle to establish and maintain; burnings of; denominations attracting blacks; discipline of; impact on politics; as institution central to black community; segregation in; and slavery; Southern white opposition to black; support for education; women's struggle to gain acceptance into ministry

Cities and towns: migration to; urban former slaves.
See also
Migration

Civil and political rights; blacks' struggle to hold onto.
See also
Social equality; Voting rights

Civil Rights Act of

Civil Rights Act of

Civil War: battles, beginning of; efforts to assist Union cause short of fighting; Lincoln on objective of

Claflin College

Clark, Indian

Clark, Rena

Clay, Henry

Cleburne, Patrick R.

Clothing

Cobb, Howell

Coffin, Charles

Coleman, Eli

Coleman, Peter

Coley Annie

Colleges and universities, formation of black

Collier, Holt

Colombia

Colonization, of slaves and free blacks

Colored Methodist Episcopal Church

Colson, Arthur

Colyer, Vincent

Communities, black; problems with; steps to promote interests of

Confederate cause, blacks aiding; reasons for

Confederate States of America; debate on arming African Americans; formation of

Confiscation Acts

Congressmen.
See
Politicians

Conservatives: black(
see also
Democrats); increasing power in 1870s, 228

Contraband Relief Association

Contrabands.
See also
Confederate cause, blacks aiding

Conway, Thomas W.

Cook, Jerry

Cooke, Major

Cooley, Rossa

Cooper, Charlie

Cooper, Frisby

Cornell, Hiram

Corporal punishment

Courtship

Cox, Elijah

Crane, Mary

Crawford, Kate

Crawford, Samuel F.

Crittenden, John J.

Curtis, Mattie

Daffin, Sallie

Dallas, Moses

Dantzler, Juda

Daughters of Zion

Davenport, Carey

Davenport, Charlie

Davidson, W. M.

Davis, Jefferson; blacks' attitude toward; military policies and orders

Davis, Lizzie

Davis, Tob

Davis, William Roscoe

Davison, Eli

Davison, Elige

Dawkins, Jake

Dawson, Mollie

Day, Annie

Day, Madison

Debro, Sarah

DeGrasse, John V.

Delany, Martin R.

DeLarge, Robert C.

Democrats, black; violence between black Republicans and.
See also
Politicians

Deportation.
See also
Colonization

Depression of

Desertion, among black troops

Deveaux

Dickson, Amanda

Dickson, David

Dillard, General

Discrimination, struggle against

Divorce.
See also
Marriage(s), and separation

Dixon, Sally

Dockworkers

Dodson, Jack

Domestic violence

Donald, David H.

Doolin-Mason, Lena

Dorsey, Decatur

Dorsey, Nelson

Douglass, Frederick; and blacks in military; education; and emancipation; on Lincoln; on Northern benevolent societies

Douglass, H. Ford

Downing, George

Drago, Edmund

Dred Scott Decision

Drumgold, Kate

Drunkenness, among black troops

DuBois, W. E. B.

Dumas, F. E.

Duncan, Clara

Dunn, Lucy

Dunn, Oscar

Durham, Tempie

Easley, Elizabeth

Eaton, John

Economic independence; efforts to achieve; land ownership and

Education, black; and efforts to free blacks; financing; formation of black colleges and universities; motivations for obtaining; parental concerns regarding; punishment for obtaining; sacrifices made for; societies/organizations to promote; Southern white opposition to; white children teaching black children.
See also
Schools

Edwards, Ann

Edward Waters College

Elder, Larry

Eldridge, J. E.

Ellington, Betty Ann

Ellington, Harry

Elliott, Robert Brown

Ellis, William

Elmore, Grace

Else, Amy

Emancipation: announcement of news of; and arming of slaves; joy over newfound status; legislative efforts toward
(see also
Confiscation Acts); Lincoln's scheme for; slaves staying versus leaving following.
See also
Lincoln, Abraham, and black freedom

Emancipation amendment.
See
Thirteenth Amendment

Emancipation celebrations; throughout Reconstruction period

Emancipation Proclamation; and Border states; response to; significance; and Union military

Emigrationist movements.
See also
Colonization; Migration

Employment; freedmen's efforts to secure

Enlisting in military, blacks; blacks' reasons for; Confederate enlistment bill of 1865, 75; efforts to stop; forced; reasons for opposition to; traumatic experience of; violence done to blacks for.
See also
Confiscation Acts

Enlistment Act of

Episcopal Church

Epps, Tom

Equal Rights League

Erwing, Cynthia

Espionage

Everett, Martha