Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (134 page)

"Meet the Press,"
349

Mercer, Johnny,
454
n

Meredith, James,
444
,
477
–78,
655
–56,
659

Metalious, Grace,
359

Mexican-Americans,
380
,
588
,
665
,
734

population of,
15
–16,
327
n,
380

and poverty,
62
,
311
,
536
,
538
,
688

and race relations,
406
,
665

rights consciousness of,
638
,
642
,
714

Mexico,
578

Michaelis, John,
215

Mickey Mouse,
189

Milam, John,
395
–96

Military-industrial complex,
58
,
69
,
122
,
289
,
290
,
440
–41,
487
–88,
521
,
597

Miller, Arthur,
341

Miller, Frieda,
36

Miller, William,
549

Milliken v. Bradley
(1974),
731
n,
734
,
735

Mills, C. Wright,
324
,
337
,
339
,
370
,
623
,
624

Mills, Wilbur,
573
,
576

Mills College,
367

Minimum wage,
141
,
160
,
166
,
272
,
274
,
436
,
461
,
462
,
465
,
648

Minow, Newton,
352

Minuteman missile,
490
,
508

Miranda v. Arizona
(1966),
640
,
651
,
715

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP),
554
–57,
656

Mitchell, Clarence,
474
,
544
,
546
–47

Mitchell, John,
730
,
735
,
772
,
773
,
775
,
777
,
779
n

Mitchell, Martha,
760

Mobility,
323
,
336
,
450
,
789

Mobilization Day,
753

Mobilization for Youth,
533

Model Cities Act (1966),
648
–49

Modern Women: The Lost Sex
(Lundberg & Farnham),
36

Molotov, Vyacheslav,
88
,
105
–7,
131

Mondale, Walter,
649
,
764
n

Mongoose.
See
Operation Mongoose

Monk, Thelonious,
30

Monroe, Marilyn,
12
,
358
,
360
,
364
n,
476
n

Monsieur Verdoux
(film),
239

Montgomery, Bernard,
245
–46

Montgomery bus boycott,
400
–402,
404
–6,
430

Montgomery Improvement Association,
402
,
404
,
406

Moore, Robin,
455

Moorer, Thomas,
765

Morgenthau, Hans,
625

Morrison, Jim,
711
,
716

Morse, Wayne,
270
,
603

Moses, Robert,
431
,
470
,
471
,
472
,
552
–53

Motion pictures,
14
–15,
238
–39,
329
,
346
–47,
363
–65,
370
–71,
382
,
449
.
See also
Hollywood

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,
384
,
586
,
651
,
720

Beyond the Melting Pot
,
328

Moynihan Report (1965),
586
–87,
670

Ms.
,
714

Muggs, J. Fred,
350
–51

Muhammad, Elijah,
551

Mumford, Lewis,
74
,
274
,
334

Mundt, Karl,
195
,
267
,
269

Murray, Philip,
41
–42,
48
,
51
,
54

Murrow, Edward R.,
119
–20,
266
–67,
349

Music,
669
,
710
.
See also
Rock 'n' roll

Muskie, Edmund,
696
–97,
726
,
759
,
761

Mussadegh, Muhammad,
284
,
286

My Lai,
681
n,
756

My
Son John
(film),
239

Myrdal, Gunnar,
24
,
30
,
31

An American Dilemma
,
20
–22

Nader, Ralph,
713
,
725

Nagasaki,
5
,
7
,
67
,
108
–9,
110
,
122
,
300

Nash, Diane,
431
,
470

Nasser, Gamal Abdal,
306
–7

Nation of Islam,
446
,
550
–51,
653

National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission),
664
,
666
,
668

National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA),
420
–21

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP): and Civil Rights Act of 1964,
544

and civil rights movement,
689

and communists,
43
,
184
–85

and Council of Federated Organizations (COFO),
552

and Democratic party,
474

and desegregation,
385
–89,
398
,
466

and Medgar Evers,
481
–82

Legal Defense and Education Fund,
387
–88,
473
,
730
–31

and lynching,
381

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
483

membership,
20
,
402
,
430
,
433
,
471
,
548

Montgomery bus boycott,
400
–402,
404
,
405
–6

and Philadelphia Plan,
724
–25

"prayer pilgrimage,"
411

and the press,
26

and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC),
473

and television,
380

and voting rights,
19

National Association of Manufacturers,
58

National Baptist Convention,
402

National Basketball Association (NBA),
20
n,
382
–83

National Catholic Welfare Conference,
570

National Defense Education Act (1958),
421

National Education Association,
69
,
564
–65,
570
,
590

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA),
447
,
569
,
719

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
447
,
569
,
719

National Environmental Policy Act (1970),
727

National Farm Workers Association,
444
,
642

National Football League (NFL),
20
n,
383
,
397
–98

National Institute of Health,
318

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB),
51
,
52

National Liberation Front (NLF),
510
,
512

created,
429

military activity,
596
,
597
,
619
,
635
,
678
–80,
766