People's History of the United States_ 1492 to Present, A - Zinn, Howard [429]
Isaac, Rhys, 68
Israel, 586, 595, 596, 681
Italian immigrants, 226, 244, 265, 266, 349, 382
Italy, 438 Ethiopia invaded by, 409, 410, 421
Spanish Civil War, 409, 421
World War II, 411, 412, 423–24
Jackson, Andrew, 126–27, 187, 216, 217 Indian policy, 10, 127–30, 133, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 216
Jackson, George, 519–20
Jackson, Maynard, 466
Jackson, Aunt Molly, 393
James, Henry, 323, 360
James, William, 300, 314
Jamestown, 12, 23, 24, 26, 30, 40, 104
Japan, 297, 471, 558 China, war with, 406, 410, 427
and Indochina, 469, 470
“opening of,” 299, 408, 410, 411
World War II, 9, 17, 410–11, 413, 421–24, 469, 470
Japanese-Americans, internment of, 416
Jay, John, 96
Jefferson, Thomas, 83, 89, 95, 97, 110, 117, 126, 128 Declaration of Independence, 71, 72
Jennings, Francis, 14–15, 16, 86, 87, 88
Jewish immigrants, 265, 268, 340, 349, 382
Jews: Germany and World War II, 409, 415 Palestine, 414
Spain, 2
John Paul 11, Pope, 576
Johnson, Andrew, 197, 199
Johnson, Lyndon, 431, 509, 526, 601 blacks and civil rights, 456, 456, 459, 463, 464
Vietnam, 411, 475, 476, 481, 483–84, 500–01, 685
Johnson, U. Alexis, 475
Jones, James, 418
Jones, Mother Mary, 330, 338, 346, 354
Jordan, June, 600, 638
Josephson, Matthew, 259, 260
Julien, Claude, 545
Kahn, Herman, 441
Kaufman, Irving, 434
Kay, Marvin L. Michael, 63, 64–65
Keller, Helen, 341, 345–46, 503
Kemble, Fanny, 176–77
Kennan, George, 583, 592
Kennedy, Edward, 594
Kennedy, John F., 431–32, 437, 438, 441, 442, 526, 560 blacks and civil rights, 453, 456, 457, 458
Southeast Asia and Vietnam, 473, 474, 475–76
Kennedy, Robert, 454, 456
Kenya, 659, 678, 682
Kerry, John, 594
Khadafi, Muarnmar, 591
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 451–52, 461, 462, 485, 644
“King Philips War,” 16, 40
Kissinger, Henry, 9, 441, 484, 491, 498, 544, 548, 551, 552, 553–54, 556, 569
Kistiakowsky, George, 604
Kitt, Eartha, 487
Kleindienst, Richard, 544, 547, 548
Knights of Labor, 251, 267–68, 269, 273, 274, 279, 285, 289, 307
Knox, Henry, 81, 95, 126
Kolchin, Peter, 199
Kolko, Gabriel, 350, 413
Koning, Hans, 17–18
Korea/Korean war, 428, 429, 647, 652, 685
Kornbluh, Joyce, 332
Kovic, Ron, 496–97, 619, 621
Kozol, Jonathan, 539
Kristol, Irving, 435
Kropotkin, Peter, 271
Krushchev, Nikita, 592
Ku Klux Klan, 203, 382, 432, 452, 636
Kurds, 656
Kuwait, 594–96, 598, 622, 627, 653
labor: blacks, 199, 203, 208, 209, 241, 274, 328, 337–38, 381, 404–05, 415, 466, 467 children, 43, 44, 49, 221, 230–31, 266, 267, 324, 335, 346–47, 403
Colonial era, 23, 25, 27–28, 29, 30, 32, 37, 42–47, 50, 53, 55, 56, 57, 62, 80, 104–05
Constitution, support for, 99
convicts, 209, 275, 292
Depression and unemployment, 386–95 passim
factories and mills, 10, 111, 115, 116–17, 216, 221, 228–31, 239, 241, 243–44, 253, 300, 324–27, 334–39 passim, 346, 349, 381, 386, 387, 397
Fair Employment Practices Commission, 415
health and safety in working conditions, 230, 239, 241, 242, 246, 254, 255, 256, 278, 325, 326, 327, 338–39, 346
insurance and compensation, 349, 352–53
ILGWU, 326
immigrants, 49, 125, 216, 221, 225, 227–28, 230, 238, 244, 253, 254, 265–67, 307, 324 see also individual ethnic groups
Independent Labor party, 272
Indians, 25, 29, 53
Knights of Labor, 251, 267–68, 269, 273, 274, 279, 285, 289, 306
minimum-wage (1938), 403
National Labor Relations Board, 401, 402, 574
1980s and 1990s, 617
organization (unions, strikes): 19th century, 218–19, 221, 222, 223, 225–51 passim, 260, 265, 267–83, 293, 310; 20th century, 324, 326, 330, 334–39 passim, 346–47, 354, 377–82, 386, 392, 397, 399–402 passim, 406, 407, 415, 416, 417–18, 575, 578, 668–74
socialism and, 244–45, 249, 268–73, 278, 281, 282, 307–08, 336, 339–40, 382, 385, 406, 547
Spanish American war and, 317
Wagner Act, 395, 401
women, 10, 32, 43, 44, 103, 104–05, 110, 111, 114–15, 123, 228–31, 234–35, 240–41, 253, 257, 267–68, 324–27 passim, 336, 338–39, 347, 405–06, 504, 506–11 passim
Workingmen’s party, 244–45, 248–49
see also American Federation of Labor; Congress of Industrial