Wilson, Mary-Ann, 238
Wilson, Wellington, 703, 717
Wilson, William Julius, 286
Wineberg, Harvey, 805
Winfrey, Oprah, 204, 951, 967, 978, 1001
Obama interviews, 1002, 1009, 1054, 1062, 1064–65
O Magazine, 1039
travel to meet Hurricane Katrina evacuees, 974
Winslow, F. Scott, 965
Wirtz, William, 654, 657
Wisconsin Steel closure, 1–21, 24, 28, 207, 217, 231
annual anniversaries, 29, 37–38, 221, 234, 262
empty rusty plant from, 199
and lawsuit resolution, 559–60, 570
“ripple effect layoff” from, 4, 6
Save Our Jobs Committee, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 29, 34, 38, 213
settlement with surviving workers, 303, 318
Wojcicki, Ed, 606, 659
Wolf, Arnold Jacob, 547
Wolfe, Alan, 426
Wolff, Paula, 509, 588, 713, 737, 747, 751–52
Wolffe, Richard, 1040–41, 1056, 1058, 1059, 1066, 1078
Wolin, Sheldon, 145
Women’s Law Association (WLA), 355–56, 427
Women’s World Banking, 485, 510
Wonder, Stevie, 100–101, 144, 479
Wondisford, Fredric, 965–66
Wood, Corinne, 739–40, 754
Wood, Diane P., 566
Wood, Sheree Aleta, 420
Wooden, John, 96
Woodlawn Organization, 483
Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corp., 498
Woods, Donald, 148
Woods, Tiger, 1002
Woods Charitable Fund, 12, 13, 14, 22, 39, 247, 304, 312, 523
board members, 276, 495, 501, 647, 669, 733
Career Education Network, 289, 296
“Community Organizing Award” ceremony, 576–77
and DCP funding, 219–20, 239, 258, 262, 264, 268, 322
first black board member, 279
“Future of Organizing” panel, 501–3, 524
and Hope Center project, 508, 576
and Joyce Fund, 749
Obama board fees, 713
Obama board resignation, 788
and Public Allies, 488
Stanback as chairman, 669
and UNO grant, 235
and welfare-to-work program, 576, 578
Woodstock Institute, 284, 717
Woodward, Bob, 1056, 1057, 1063
Woolf, Virginia, 149
Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act (1998), 727
Wortham, Carolyn, 269, 289, 470
Worthy Tradition (Kalven), 399
Wright, Janet, 259
Wright, Jeremiah A., Jr., 255–60, 265, 271, 289, 297, 298, 305, 310, 351
“Audacity of Hope” sermon, 469, 531, 643, 939, 1004
background of, 255–56
black Chicago’s regard for, 743
controversial sermons, 742–43, 813, 1042
Dreams From My Father portrayal of, 531
and fatal shooting of Rush’s son, 677, 678
“great black preacher” ranking, 493
and Hope Center workshop, 572
Obama distancing from, 743, 1030, 1041, 1044
and Obama presidential candidacy, 1026–27, 1028, 1030, 1042–47
Obama relationship with, 324, 325, 403, 404, 405, 458, 534, 776, 1030, 1043, 1044
Obama repudiation of, 1046
and Obama-Rush congressional primary contest, 698
and Obama Senate campaign, 848, 849, 873, 891–92, 898, 957
as Obama’s pastor, 417, 468, 859, 909, 982, 995
and Obama’s Senate candidacy, 873
at Obama’s Senate swearing-in, 964
as Obama wedding officiant, 479
preaching appeal of, 468–69
and Project VOTE!, 474
racial views of, 1045–47
Rolling Stone article on, 1026–27
Wright, Judith, 454
Wright, Tim, 539, 662
Wycliff, Don, 855
Wyden, Ron, 986
Yanagi, Sharon, 84
Yatsushiro, Aimee, 57
Yeager, Jenny, 922, 968
Yeats, W. H., 148
Yee, Annette, 94, 95, 100
Yehudah, Yesse, 826
and FORUM financial practices, 678–79, 719, 720, 753, 796
Obama state Senate race against, 616, 637, 638, 640
Yepsen, David, 1000
Yi, Eunhee Kim, 245
Young, Quentin, 547, 699, 916, 917
Younge, Gary, 1068
Youngstown Sheet & Tube, 38, 450
Yu, Mary, 220
Yu, Peter, 377–78, 379, 383, 388, 390, 398, 399, 442
and Law Review annual banquet, 408, 409
as Law Review first Asian American president, 353, 360
Zane, Andy “Pake,” 46, 51, 79, 81, 151
Zeigler, Lee, 53
Zeleny, Jeff, 969, 972, 973, 974, 975, 978, 986
and Obama Africa trip, 997
and Obama interviews, 972, 973, 974, 981–82
and Obama presidential candidacy, 1024
Zell, Helen, 885
Zell, Sam, 885
Zeltzerman, Miriam, 965, 966
Zia-ul-Haq, Muhammad, 137
Zimmerman, Al, 31
Zopp, Andrea, 525
Zorn, Eric, 538, 792, 801, 821, 831, 878
on Hull campaign, 881, 883, 891
on Obama 2008 presidential bid, 992
on Obama vs. Hillary Clinton presidential 2008 chances, 967
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David J. Garrow’s prior books include Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade, a comprehensive history of the American reproductive rights struggle, and Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Garrow also authored The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. and Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and edited The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. He coedited The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington; the Library of America’s two-volume Reporting Civil Rights; and The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle and served as a senior adviser for Eyes on the Prize, the award-winning PBS television history of the American black freedom struggle. Garrow has regularly contributed to the Washington Post and the New York Times, and his articles and essays have also appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek. His academic writings have been published in The Supreme Court Review, The Yale Law Journal, The University of Chicago Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Constitutional Commentary. Garrow has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the City University of New York, Cooper Union, the College of William and Mary, American University, and Emory University, and from 2005 to 2011 he was Senior Research Fellow at Homerton College at the University of Cambridge. Most recently he has been Professor of Law & History and Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Garrow graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D. from Duke University.
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