Giovanni, Nikki, 123, 126, 163, 165
Gladney, Gerald, 149
Hoover, J. Edgar, 76, 137
Horne, Lena, 83
Hughes, Langston, 66–67, 69, 84
Hurston, Zora Neale, 84
Kennedy, John F., 90, 102
Kenney, John A., 63
Kenyatta, Charles, 140
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 78, 80, 90, 93, 101, 126–127
Kitt, Eartha, 83
MacRae, Jennie (née Michaux), 7, 137
McKay, Claude, 84
Michaux, Bettie (née Logan), 62, 64, 69, 85, 111, 130, 141–142, 146, 155–157
Michaux, Blanche, 5–7, 11, 16, 24
Michaux, John Henry, 5–6, 8, 11, 15–16
Michaux, Lewis, 3, 5, 7, 9–11, 13–17, 19–20, 22–29, 31–32, 35, 38–39, 41–43, 45, 52–53, 55–58, 62, 64–65, 69, 71, 75–76, 79–80, 82–85, 87–90, 94–99, 101–105, 107, 110–111, 114, 117–119, 122–124, 127, 130, 132, 134–135, 137–139, 141–142, 144, 146, 149–150, 153–155, 157, 163
Michaux, Lewis, Jr., 85, 111, 126, 146, 152, 157–158
Michaux, Lightfoot Solomon, 5–6, 9, 13–14, 16–17, 19–25, 28–33, 35, 38, 40–43, 45–46, 48–49, 51–52, 58, 76, 90–91, 94, 122, 135–136, 139, 141, 155–156
Michaux, Mary Eliza, 9, 16, 28, 32–33, 35, 42–43, 92, 94, 122, 137, 139
Michaux, Norris, 7, 16–17, 19, 22–23, 50–52, 97, 101, 137, 153, 155
Michaux, Norris E., III (also “Micheaux”), 151, 155
Michaux, Ruth, 7, 52, 62, 137
Michaux, Sinah, 22, 50–51, 101, 153
Micheaux, Olive Marie (née Batch), 52
Muhammad, Elijah, 91–93, 94, 103–104, 109, 111
Nkrumah, Kwame, 98–99, 126, 149
Paige, Leroy “Satchel,” 83
Penniman, Richard Wayne “Little Richard,” 83
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 84
Randall, Dudley, 165
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 82
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 130, 142, 144, 150
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 45, 90–91, 137
Sanchez, Sonia, 165
Shabazz, Ilyasah, 161
Stone, Willie, 133
Tabron-Allen, Willie Ann, 25–27, 29, 32, 139, 167
Truman, Harry S., 90, 137
Turner, James E., 89, 105, 161
Turner, Nat, 30
Woodson, Carter G., 55
Wright, Richard, 44, 45
X, Malcolm (also “Malcolm Little”), 75–76, 90, 92–93, 94, 96, 101–106, 08–115, 140–141, 150, 152, 161, 163
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The images in this book are used with the permission of: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, p. 14; The Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, African Studies Center, UCLA, p. 15; Courtesy of Anthony W. Hurst Sr., p. 26; © J. R. Eyerman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, p. 30; Gospel Spreading Church of God, Courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, pp. 40, 45; Courtesy of the John W. Mosley Photographic Collection, Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, p. 44; Courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, pp. 49, 51 (both), 52, 53, 71, 115, 122, 136, 139, 145 (both), 154; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, General Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, p. 63; The Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas Libraries, p. 66; © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, p. 75; AP Photo/John Lent, p. 78; © Bettmann/ CORBIS, pp. 82, 101, 105, 114; © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, p. 88; © Marvin Lichtner/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, p. 96; © Ted Russell/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, p. 99; AP Photo/WCBS-TV, p. 110; Library of Congress, p. 118 (LC-DIG-ppmsca-11683); Nikki Giovanni, Courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, p. 123; AP Photo, p. 124; © Ezio Peterson, Courtesy of Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, p. 140; © John Peodincuk/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images, p. 152; © Laura Westlund/Independent Picture Service, p. 169.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is the author of many books for young readers, including Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2010, and Almost to Freedom, which won a Coretta Scott King Honor for Colin Bootman’s illustrations in 2004. Nelson is a youth services librarian at the public library in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where she lives with her husband.
To write No Crystal Stair, she spent years researching Lewis Michaux’s life. She conducted interviews, sifted through library collections, examined family archives, and interviewed those who knew Michaux. In the end though, the man’s full story (and even his date of birth) remained elusive. Only the tools of fiction could make a complete portrait.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
R. Gregory Christie’s illustrations have earned him three Coretta Scott King Honors and two spots on the New York Times’ annual Best Illustrated Children’s Books lists. He has also illustrated numerous jazz album covers and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine.
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