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111, 115, 116–17, 216, 221, 228–31, 239, 241, 244, 253, 300, 324–27, 334–39 passim, 346, 349, 381, 380–86, 387, 397

foreign investment and markets, 297, 298, 301, 302–03, 313–14, 362, 438

government and politics, 219, 543, 547–49, 550, 650–51

health and safety conditions, 230, 239, 241, 242, 246, 254, 255, 256, 278, 325, 326, 327, 338–39, 346

insurance and compensation, 349, 352–53

legal and judicial protection, 239–40, 260–62

monopoly and merger, 219, 254–58

reforms, 259–60, 349–53 passim

tariffs, 91, 101, 130, 141, 142, 189, 206, 238, 257

World War II, 417, 425

see also labor; specific fields

Byrd, William, 35

Byrnes, James F., 422, 423

Caldicott, Dr. Helen, 603

Calhoun, John, 168

California: U.S. desire for and Mexican war, 149, 151, 153, 154, 163, 169, 181

Calley, William, 478–79, 667

Cambodia, 472, 483, 484, 491, 498, 545, 551–53

Camus, Albert, 10

Carmichael, Stokely, 454

Carnegie, Andrew (and Carnegie steel), 255, 257, 258, 260, 262, 276–77, 294, 314, 324

Carroll, Charles, 82–83

Carson, “Kit,” 529

Carter, Amy, 613

Carter, Jimmy, 565–66, 569–72, 575, 581, 601, 605, 611, 631, 633 “human rights” policy, 568

Iran hostage crisis, 573

Latin America policy, 590

military budget increase, 583

Panama Canal Treaty, 568

Carter, Landon, 33

Cass, Lewis, 131–32, 134

Catholic Church, 2, 29 conflicts and controversies, 221, 226, 265, 538

Vietnam protests, 488–91, 538

Catton, Bruce, 417

Central Intelligence Agency, 439, 543, 554, 555–56, 583–84, 593, 613–14 in Cuba, 440, 441, 554, 555

Vietnam and Laos, 474, 476, 478, 481, 483, 499

Watergate, 544, 547, 554

Chafe, William, 343

Chafee, Zechariah, 366

Chamorro, Edgar, 585

Chancy, James, 456

Chavez, Cesar, 614, 615

Chechnya, 657

Cheney, Dick, 652

Chernobyl, 613

Cherokee Indians, 10, 54, 55, 126, 127, 128, 132, 133, 136–37, 139–41, 144, 146–48

Chiang Kai-shek, 427, 470

Chicago, 254, 272, 650 labor and socialist groups, 243, 244, 247, 268–73 passim, 278, 279–81

Chicanos, 495, 614, 615–16

Chickasaw Indians, 54, 126, 133, 134, 140, 144

children: Colonial era, 43, 44, 49, 55 Indians, 4, 67, 20

labor, 43, 44, 49, 221, 230–31, 266, 267, 324, 335, 346–47, 403

Children’s Defense Fund, 571, 610

Chile, 545, 548, 554, 568

China: civil war, 427, 431 Communism in, 427, 429

as foreign market and Open Door Policy, 297, 298, 300, 303, 313–14, 321, 410, 657

Indochina and World War II, 412, 424, 470

Japan, war with, 406, 410, 427

Korean war, 428

Chinese immigrants, 253, 254, 265, 266, 382, 648

Chisholm, Shirley, 511

Choctaw Indians, 54, 133, 134, 138–39, 140, 141, 144

Chomsky, Noam, 567, 593, 624–25

Christman, Henry, 211

Churchill, Winston, 17, 303, 412, 421, 426

Cisler, Lucinda, 510

civil rights/civil rights movement, 449 passim, 488, 518, 523, 614 after Civil War, 198–210 passim, 667–68

see also blacks; voting

Civil Rights Act (1875), 198, 204

Civil War, 10, 171, 189–95 passim, 235–38

Clay, Henry, 141, 145

Clean Air Act (1970), 576

Clear, Todd, 647

Cleveland, Grover, 256, 258, 259, 260, 279, 302–03

Clinton, George, 86

Clinton, Bill, 633, 643–65

Cloward, Richard, 402, 466

Coal Mine Health and Safety Act (1969), 575

Cochran, Thomas, 218, 219, 220, 323

Coin, William Harvey, 293

Colden, Cadwallader, 57

cold war, end of, 592–93

Coles, Robert 498

Collier, John, 21–22, 524

Colombia, 408

Columbus, Christopher 1–5 passim, 7–8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 25, 685 quincentennial, protests against, 625–28

Commons, John, 273

Communism/Communist Party (in U.S.), 385, 441 and blacks, 447–48

crusade against, 426, 428–37 passim, 441

and labor movement, 385–86, 394, 397, 402, 405, 428, 441, 447

unemployed councils, 394, 447

Workers Alliance, 394

World War II, 407, 420

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 453, 464

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 399, 401–02, 405, 417

Conkin, Paul, 403

Connery, William P., 384–85, 395

Conot, Robert, 459

Constitution, 9, 10, 46, 90–91, 98–101 passim, 633, 676 adoption of, 70, 86, 91, 96, 98–99

Bill of Rights, 99

1st Amendment 100

13th Amendment, 192, 198,

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