The Black History of the White House (78 page)

passage,
363

requirement, elimination (atttempt),
451–452

states coverage,
436

weakening, Republican Party (impact),
312

 

Wagner, Wieland,
266

Wagner-Van Nuys Bill (1938), support (absence),
249

Waldron, Lamar,
281
,
291

Walker's Appeal,
publication,
198–199

Wall, Jim Vander,
310

Wallace, Irving,
407

Walters, Maxine,
369

Walters, Ron,
376

Warren Commission

Bolden testimony denial,
288–289

documents declassification,
281

Warrington, Karen,
100

Washington, Booker T.,
352

Cotton States and International Exposition speech,
223–224

Du Bois/Trotter criticism,
224–225

photograph,
225

power, rise,
241

Roosevelt invitation,
219
,
222

Wells battle,
245

White House visit, problems,
225–227

Washington, D.C.

race riot (1835),
125–126

slave escape (1848),
136–140

slavery, legality,
146

Underground Railroad,
139

Washington, George,
25

black slave purchase, possibility,
85

Custis marriage,
36

death, slave freedom,
43

enslaved,
80

honor, movement,
97–102

museum display,
98

Hercules (chef ),
77
,
84

escape, impact,
82–83

Hoban employment,
107–108

inaction,
43–44

Oney recourse,
45

painting,
133

pro-abolition Quakers, meeting,
96

public housing,
89–91

secret will,
79

shame,
96–97

slave fear,
81

slave labor force, inclusion,
90

slave lawsuit,
93

slave ownership,
35
,
38–39

slave rotations,
41–42

slavery

mixed views,
42

repugnance,
51

slaves, number,
36–37

will, designation,
46

Washington, Harold,
421

Washington, Henry “Harry,”
80

Washington, Martha,
38–39

inaction,
43–44

slave freedom,
43
,
47
,
79

Washington, William Augustine,
108

Washington Mansion,
86

Washington Mirror,
126

Washington Post,
126–127

Watergate break-in,
313

Wears, Isaiah C.,
190–191

Weaver, Robert (HUD appointment),
307

Webb, Gary,
324

Webb, Pollard,
135–136

Webster, Daniel,
136

ACS member,
148

welfare queen, Reagan stereotype,
324–325

Wells, Ida B.,
245–246

McKinley meeting,
246

Welsh, Mollie,
119–120

Wesley, Charles,
184

Wesley, Cynthia (murder),
287

West, Cornel,
376

West expansion, Taylor support,
150

“What Obama Isn't: Black Life Me” (Crouch),
441

Wheatley, Phillis,
103
,
121

illustration,
122

When Affirmative Action Was White
(Katznelson),
255

Whig Party, defections,
182

Whipple, John (New Hampshire Collector of Customs),
44

Whipple, William,
44

White, Donald,
296

White, George Henry,
221
,
243

White Citizens Councils,
427

white hands advertisements, conservative movement cultivation,
477

White House

Adams, entry/first resident,
129

alternative/inclusive history,
21–22

appearance, photograph,
206

approach,
75–76

black accommodation,
24

black carpenters, employment ban,
108–109

black challenges,
24–31
,
349

black entertainers (pre-1960s),
259–266

black entertainment,
155–167

black history,
47

heroism,
16

institution,
23

black labor, employment categories,
115–116

black man rule, discussion,
458–459

black marginalization/disempowerment,
17–18

black staff,
267–271

butlers,
267–271

capture/burning,
133–134

Civil War,
169

completion,
129

conservative racial politics, oppositional voice,
242–243

construction,
36–37

enslaved black men, usage,
115

control, Electoral College decision (impact),
71

crisis (1960s-1970s), aversion,
298–317

damage, illustration,
143

democratic aspiration repository,
21–22

Ellington

performance,
340–342

relationship,
333–334

gospel/spiritual group performance preference,
259–260

illusions, destruction,
131

interracial socializing, Roosevelt (impact),
253

jazz performance, appearance,
338–339

jazz presence,
332–334

kitchen, black woman (photograph),
234

location

description,
104

stipulation,
87

maids,
267–271

Obama milestone,
413

official naming,
231

opening (Monroe),
142–143

Peter (black carpenter),
103–109

photograph (1858),
18

physical reconstruction, symbolism,
145–155

political/cultural challenges,
362–364

power, crisis (1960s),
279

presidential residence, establishment,
86–88

project implementation, Jefferson responsibility,
109

race,
428–429
,
442–448

racial politics, complication,
232–233

racism,
142–144
,
428–429

readiness,
91

Roosevelt designation,
17–18

saga, impact,
47

segregation, existence,
268–269

slave labor usage,
116–117

slavery, foundation/impact,
103

stones, usage,
118–119

symbol,
18

symbolism, redefining,
458–459

trees, clearing,
115

Tubman impact,
212–213

Wiggins summons,
155

White House Festival of the Arts (1965), Ellington participation,
334

White House Office of Public Engagement,
467

White House staff

black workers, presence,
234–235
,
267–271

diversity,
300

evacuation,
134

White League, brutality,
233–234

White Panthers,
304

white racial hegemony, exercise,
24–25

whites

domination

presidential challenges, absence,
238–239

domination, Johnson advancement,
233–234

power, reinstatement,
244–245

racial prejudices, concession,
205–206

racism, pandering,
160–161

superiority, Roosevelt belief,
227

terror, menace,
254

whites-only private schools, tax exemption (Nixon support),
309

whites-only signs, removal,
480–481

white Washington, D.C., black Washington D.C. secession,
138

Wiggins, Domingo,
159

Wiggins, Thomas “Blind Tom” Greene Bethune,
259

parents, media impact,
161–162

prodigy,
159–161

skills,
161

war effort fundraisers,
164–165

Washington, D.C., arrival,
163

White House

performance,
165–166

summons,
155

Wilberforce University, Keckly teaching position,
179–180

Wilder, Doug,
371–374

Wilkerson, Joyce,
100

Wilkins, Roger,
111

Wilkins, Roy,
385–386

Willard Hotel,
174

Williams, Armstrong,
318

Williams, Elisha,
118

slave hiring,
116–117

Williams, Juan,
318
,
373

Williams, Marie Selike

First Family connection,
262–263

Queen Victoria performance,
263

White House performance,
262

Williams, Mark,
466

Williams, Mary Lou,
342
,
384

Williams, Peter,
95

Williams, Walter,
318

Williamson, Collen,
109

Wills, Frank,
313

Wills, Gary,
61
,
88

Wilson, Joe (racist actions),
453–454

Wilson, Margaret Bush,
321

Wilson, Woodrow (lynching condemnation),
250

Wingfield, Adia,
444

Winston, Michael R.,
139

Winter, Paul,
339

Wise, Henry,
152

Wolcott Jr., Oliver,
44

women

electoral/political voice, absence,
70–71

liberation, black liberation (Truth linkage),
209–210

Women's Convention (1851),
209

Woodside, D.B.,
409–411

Woodson, Robert,
318

Woodward, Bob,
313

Woodward, C. Vann,
299

Workers World Party, candidates,
381

working people (political inclusion), South (obstacle),
255–256

World Community of Al-Islan in the West,
419

World Peace Festival, Jubilee Singer performance (1872),
260

World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago), African American exclusion,
246

Wright, Jeremiah,
444–445
,
449
,
463

Obama criticism,
445

Wright, Zephyr (White House chef ),
83

Write Me In
(Cleaver),
392

 

Yale University, Washington/Roosevelt dinner,
229

Yamasee Indians, aid,
62

Yarborough, Davey,
346

Yellow House,
105

yellow-skinned servants, Washington preference,
81

“You and I Can't Yield--Not Now, Not Ever” (Sherrod),
474

Young, Andrew,
314–315

Young, Nimrod (free/enslaved black),
119

 

Zinn, Howard,
149

Zukerman, Pinchas,
265

Dr. Clarence Lusane is an Associate Professor of Political Science in the School of International Service at American University, where he teaches and researches on international human rights, comparative race relations, social movements, and electoral politics.

He is also an author, activist, scholar, lecturer, and journalist. For more than 30 years he has written about and been active in national and international antiracism politics, globalization, U.S. foreign policy, human rights, and social issues such as education and drug policy. He spent two years living in London conducting research on racism and human rights in Europe and working with European institutions and NGOs.

His most recent book is
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century
. Other books by Dr. Lusane include
Hitler's Black Victims: The Experiences of Afro-Germans, Africans, Afro-Europeans and African Americans During the Nazi Era
;
Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the Millennium
;
No Easy Victories: A History of Black Elected Officials
;
African Americans at the Crossroads: The Restructuring of Black Leadership and the 1992 Elections
;
The Struggle for Equal Education
; and
Pipe Dream Blues: Racism and the War on Drugs
.

Dr. Lusane is the former editor of the journal
Black Political Agenda
and has edited newsletters for a number of national nonprofit organizations. He is a national columnist for the Black Voices syndicated news network, and his writings have appeared in
The Black Scholar
,
Race and Class
,
Washington Post
,
Covert Action Information Bulletin
,
Z Magazine
,
Radical History
Journal
,
Souls, New Political Science, Journal of Popular Film and Television
and many other publications. Over the past two decades he has won several research and writing awards. His essay “Rhapsodic Aspirations: Rap, Race, and Power Politics” won the 1993 Larry Neal Writers' Competition Grand Prize for Art Criticism. In 1983, his article “Israeli Arms to Central America” won the prestigious Project Censored Investigative Reporting Award as the most censored story of the year.

He is the former Chairman of the Board of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists. As a journalist he has traveled to numerous countries to investigate their political and social circumstances or crises, including Panama in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion; East Germany during the last months of its existence; and Zimbabwe as a delegate to the Congress of the International Organization of Journalists. Other nations he has visited and reported on include Cuba, Egypt, Mexico, Jamaica, North Korea, South Korea, Italy, Pakistan, and South Africa.

Dr. Lusane has been a political and technical consultant to the World Council of Churches, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and a number of elected officials and nonprofit organizations. He worked for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives as a staff aide to former D.C. Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy, and then for the former Democratic Study Group that served as the primary source of legislative information and analysis for House Democrats. He has taught and worked at Howard University's Center for Drug Abuse Research and Center for Urban Policy; Medgar Evers College's Du Bois Bunche Center for Public Policy, and Columbia University's Institute for Research in African American Studies. Dr. Lusane received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University in 1997.

In 2001–2002, he received the prestigious British Council Atlantic Fellowship in Public Policy where he investigated
the impact of regional antiracism legislation on the antiracist movement in the UK. From 2002 to 2003 he served as Assistant Director of the 1990 Trust, one of the UK's largest and most important antiracist, human rights nongovernmental organizations.

He has lectured and presented scholarly papers at a wide range of colleges and universities including Harvard, Georgetown, George Washington, North Carolina A&T, University of California at Berkeley, University of Chicago, Yale, London School of Economics, and University of Paris among others. He has also lectured on U.S. race relations in numerous foreign nations including Colombia, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Japan, the Netherlands, Panama, Switzerland, and Zimbabwe, among other countries.

Dr. Lusane has regularly appeared on C-SPAN, PBS, BET, and other local, national, and international television and radio programs, where he has discussed international relations, global black politics, economic globalization and new technologies, cultural issues, and multilateral narcotics policy.

He is the Co-Chair of the Civil Society Committee of the U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial & Ethnic Discrimination & Promote Equality (JAPER). The project is an effort to build collaborative anti-racist and anti-discrimination projects in the areas of criminal justice, education, employment, the environment, and health.