The Black History of the White House (75 page)

New York Tribune,
195

Niagara Movement,
231

Wells cofounding,
245

Nightwalking,
135

Nixon, Richard,
299

anti-Negro president, black community grievances,
308–309

Congressional Black Caucus, relationship (acrimony),
310–311

Ellington performance,
340–342

jazz performances,
341–342

paranoia,
310

racial issues,
31

resignation/pardon,
313–314

Southern strategy,
311–312

Vietnam War escalation,
310

Watergate break-in,
313

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program,
331

non-property-owning white males, electoral/political voice (absence),
70–71

non-state actors, rise,
475–476

non-taxed Indians, electoral/political voice (absence),
70–71

Norris, Lyman D.,
172

North, slave population (counting),
69–70

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), black opposition,
323

North Carolina (profit), slavery (impact),
55

North Carolina Spiritual Singers, Anderson performance,
264

Northern states, slavery benefit,
55

North Star
(Douglass),
188

Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder,
451–452

Norton, Eleanor Holmes,
314–315

Notes on the State of Virginia
(Jefferson),
121

Nutter, Michael,
101

Nye, Louis,
336

 

Obama, Barack Hussein

administration

footing, struggle,
478

Jackson opinion,
376

agenda, defeat (cynicism/irresponsibility),
477

black history, future,
32–34

black identity,
442–443

black vote,
437–438

breakthroughs,
480–481

campaign

narrative,
438–442

promises,
456

strategy,
433–438

swing-state focus,
435

two-prong tactics, evolution,
434

change, belief,
429–433

coalition, construction,
450

controversies, restraint,
462

criticism, Palin encouragement,
446–447

critics, assertions (falsity),
439

DNC speech (2004),
428

election

hate-related incidents,
448

racist newsletters/cyberspace rants, eruption,
448

Gates controversy,
463–465

Hitler, correlation (references),
453

inauguration/election,
15–16
,
47

Iowa caucus, importance,
434

Irish roots,
128

Jackson, political rival,
433

jazz appreciation,
346–347

Latino vote,
437–438

marriage,
423–424

Morrison endorsement,
455

multiracial identity,
442–443

opposition, unification,
476–477

parents, interracial marriage,
443

photograph,
33

postracialism,
463

presidency,
426–427

progressive public policy, ability (restraints),
477–478

race

issue,
442–447

neutrality/consciousness, dilemma,
455

race-based backlash,
457

race-related controversies,
459–460

racial hostage, overcoming,
456

racial sympathy (Rice),
329

reverse racism sanction, charges,
467

Sherrod apology,
473–474

socialist/communist/Marxist, contentions,
453

storybook life,
440–441

terrorist accusations, Palin rally,
446–447

triumph, celebration,
22

White House milestone,
413

white vote,
437–438

white voter generation gap, Southern states,
437

Wright, relationship,
444–445

Obama, Craig,
422–423

Obama, Malia Ann,
425

Obama, Marian,
426

Obama, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson,
34
,
332

ancestry,
415–418
,
422–423

anti-American charge,
425

DePass criticism,
447

historical environment/context,
418–424

jazz appreciation,
346–347

marriage,
423–424

photograph,
345
,
414

“Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” (thesis),
423

Obama, Natasha (Sasha),
425

Obama family

Ghana visit, photograph,
479

photograph,
425

world awareness/interpretation,
428–429

Obama Sr., Barack,
439

O'Connell, Deirdre,
159–160

O'Dell, Jack (dismissal attempt),
303

O'Fake, Peter,
260

Ogletree, Charles,
376

O'Leary, Hazel R.,
323

Oliver, Perry,
165

Oney.
See
Judge

op den Graeff, Abraham,
91

op den Graeff, Derick,
91

open-ended detentions, human rights conventions,
24

opera, African American discrimination,
262–263

Operation AmWorld,
290–291

Operation Breadbasket (SCLC),
420–421

Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity),
371
,
421

O Presidente Negro
(Lobato),
405–406

Ordinance of 1787, vitiation,
163

original sin, Quaker rejection,
92

Overall, George Washington,
440–441

 

Pacific Legal Foundation, impact,
452

Paige, Ralph,
472–473

Palin, Sarah

campaign, racial hype/rhetoric,
445–446

crowd incitement,
446–447

ignorance/shallowness,
429

McCain selection,
329

mosque hysteria,
459–460

racism problem,
452–453

rally, Obama terrorist accusations,
446–447

tea party defense,
466–467

Paris, dower negroes,
42

Parker, Charlie,
382–383

Parker, James Benjamin (“Big Jim”)

actions, Washington analysis,
223–224

impact,
220

Mason poem,
219

national hero,
220–221

trial,
221–222

Washington attention,
222–223

Parker, John (Supreme Court nomination opposition),
252–253

Parks, Lillian Rogers,
270–271

Parks, Rosa,
245

participatory democracy,
59

Pastorius, Francis Daniel,
91

Patrick, Deval,
450

Patterson, David (slave owner),
415
,
418

Patti, Adelina (“Black Patti”),
263

Paynter, John,
139

Peace and Freedom Party (PFP),
390

promotion,
386

Pearl
(slave escapee ship),
138

Cornfield Harbor, anchoring,
138

slave hunters, tracking,
138–139

Pendleton, Clarence,
318
,
319

Penn, Irvine Garland,
246

Pennsylvania

government selection,
91

slavery cessation,
41

Pennsylvania Abolition Society

development/impact,
93–94

gradualist policy,
94

renaming,
93

reorganization,
91

segregationist policy,
94

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, The,
97

Pepper, William,
401–402

Perdue, Sonny,
459

Perlman, Itzhak,
265

Perot, H. Ross,
323
,
374
,
396

Perry, J.Sam (prejudicial intervention),
289

personal liberty laws,
413–414

Persons, Wilton B.

power, increase,
276–277

threat,
273–274

Peter (Negro Peter),
103–109
,
129

Petronard, Madame,
83

Philadelphia

abolitionism, presence,
91–94

abolitionist activity center,
84–85

abolitionist stronghold,
89

government location, temporariness,
88

Philadelphia Plan (Fletcher),
312–313

Phillips, Kevin,
312

Pierce, Franklin

Fugitive Slave Act (1850) enforcement,
151

slave ownership, avoidance,
145

Pierce, Samuel,
319

Pigford II
(lawsuit),
471

Pigford v. Glickman
(1997),
471

Piles, Jacob (free/enslaved black),
119

Pinckney, Charles,
73

Plain, Honest Men
(Beeman),
69–70

plantation homes, building/maintenance,
110

Planter, George (free black laborer),
119

Platt, Bill,
446–447

Plessy v. Ferguson,
17

black exclusion codification,
221

presidential cover,
249–250

Supreme Court ruling,
241–242

Plowden, Edmund,
117

Poison Spring, black troop murder,
205

police profiling,
451

political balance, evolution,
23

political disjuncture, perception,
25–26

political enfranchisement, exclusion (crisis),
28

Polk, James Knox

black enslavement,
145

Jennings (slave) rental,
140

slave escape quandary,
139–140

popular media, black representation (absence),
32–33

“Portrait of New York Suite” (Ellington),
333

postracialism, proponents (contention),
457

postraciality, advocacy (emergence),
454–455

postracial mantra,
32

postracial policy, perspective,
452

postracial society, debate,
448–455

postracial thesis (Bai),
450–451

Powell, Adam Clayton,
336

Powell, Colin L.,
319
,
326–327
,
449
,
478

Cheney conflicts,
404

presidential possibility,
401
,
403–404

Republican Party problems,
404

power

crisis (1960s),
279

distribution,
56

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (1862)

Lincoln issuance,
195–196

presidential order,
196

shortcomings,
196

pre-Plessy presidents,
235–243

presidency, race (relationship),
22–24

presidential election (1876), crisis,
28–29

presidential homes (New York/Philadelphia), usage,
15

Presidential Mansion,
86

presidential power, Senate check,
477–478

Presidential Reconstruction,
216

President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (1992),
281
,
291

Price, Leontyne (performances),
265–266

Prigg v. Pennsylvania
(1842),
415

“Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” (Obama thesis),
423

Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007
(Bureau of Justice Statistics),
322

privileged house slave, consequences,
43–44

Pro-abolition Quakers, Washington meeting,
96

progressive black social movement, necessity,
478–479

Property rights, Founding Fathers priority,
74–75

proportional delegate distribution, Democratic Party initiation,
435

pro-slavery forces, crushing,
26–27

public education, black history (absence),
32–33

public housing, Washington movement,
89–91

Public Law 108-72 (Bush),
346

public school pupils, teaching,
21

Purcell, Pierce,
108

 

Quakers

just war rejection,
92

slavery rejection,
91–93

Queen's Head, revolt,
49

Queen Victoria, Williams performance,
263

Quinnell, Gayle,
446

 

race

baiting, Lincoln response,
182–183

cessation, claims,
449

issues, problems,
51

neutrality/consciousness, Obama dilemma,
455

presidency, relationship,
22–24

relations, advancement (opportunity),
23

riots, intervention (McKinley failure),
247–248

race-conscious programs (cessation attempts), conservatives (impact),
451

Race Initiative (Clinton),
31
,
325