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INDEX
abducted people, Franklin & Armfield (impact), 105
Abell, Bess, 339
abolition (occurrence), Lincoln (impact), 214–215
abolitionist center (Philadelphia), 84–85
abolitionist movement
President’s house, relationship, 77
roots, 91–92
abolitionists
Jackson battle, 149–150
mail (usage), Kendall ban, 150
abolition movement
aggressiveness, 145
assistance, pre-Civil War presidents (reluctance), 26–27
Adams, John, 25, 63
British soldier defense, 50
slavery, repugnance, 51
White House resident, 129
Adams, John Quincy
Amistad argument, 153–154
antislavery advocate, 140
slave ownership, avoidance, 145
slavery question, avoidance, 151
Adams, Sherman, 273
Morrow memos, 274–275
Ad-Hoc Historians, 100–101
formation, 99
affirmative action
cessation, conservative attempts, 451
Nixon initiation, 312–313
Powell support, 327
Reagan reversal, 317
Rice, softness, 328
African Americans
carpenters, racism (experience), 418–419
death, Jackson (impact), 150
elections, seating preventions, 243
equality, denial, 234
land, U.S. government broken promises, 470
legal slavery, 132
Lincoln
interaction, 183
meeting, 185–186
policies/viewpoints, 181
political relations, 214–215
White House, relationship, 198–215
lynching, 244–258
music discrimination, 260–263
New Deal benefits, blockage, 255–256
organizing/breakthroughs, 299–300
positioning, importance, 478–479
re-enslavement, 237
school children, photograph, 239
sentiments, Douglass speech, 201–202
slavery escape, 185
Social Security exclusion, 255–256
urbanization, increase, 301
African Blood Brotherhood, 352
African Methodist Episcopal Church
founding, 95
Turner participation, 189
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, Clinton reform, 324–325
Alabama, slave state admission, 146
Albright, Madeleine, 327, 344
Alexander Jr., Clifford, 310, 315
Ali, Muhammad, 304
Allen, Carlos, 297
Allen, Claude, 330–331
Allen, Eugene (White House pantryman/butler/maître d’hôtel), 270
Allen, Richard, 95
Jones, differences, 96
Allicocke, Joseph, 48–49
Sons of Liberty “general,” 49
All Other Per
sons, 66–75
blacks reference, 70
All the President’s Men (Bernstein/Woodward), 313
Almeida, Juan (Cuba coup leader), 291
al Qaeda/Iraq, Bush administration linkage, 431
Amato, John, 448
American Colonization Society (ACS), 94
colonization plans, rejection, 190
conference (1855), 184
formation, 148
Monroe support, 148
American Federation of Labor (AFL), Supreme Court nomination opposition, 253
American Negro Slave Revolts (Aptheker), 62
American politics, manipulative nature, 408
American Revolution
alternative voices, 26
Boston Massacre, impact, 49
racism/white racial hegemony, impact, 24–25
regime rebuff, 47–48
slavery cessation, failure, 50–56
American Society for Colonizing Free People of Color in the United States, 148
American Society of Muslims, 419–420
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), violation, 102
Amistad
Adams argument, 153–154
black rebellion/seizure, 153–154
slaves, Van Buren detention plans, 154
Anderson, Marian
Daughters of the American Revolution rejection, 264
photograph, 264
racist attacks, continuation, 264–265
Roosevelt support, 263–264
Angelou, Maya, 321
Ann and Mary (Somerset passage), 53
Anthony, Susan B. (Wells battle), 245
anti-lynching bill inaction, U.S. Senate apology (2005), 257–258
Anti-Lynching Bureau of the National African Council, 247
anti-lynching campaigns, 244–258
continuation, 257–258
anti-Muslim opposition, 459–460
anti-slavery petitions, mailings (gag rule prevention), 151–152
Aptheker, Herbert, 62, 148
Arizona anti-immigration law (SB 1070), passage/judicial suspension, 460–461
armed revolutionary movement, Southern leaders (connection), 25
Armstrong, Louis, 334
Arnebeck, Bob, 107, 113
capital construction research, 118–119
White House worker assertion, 116
Arsenio Hall Show, Clinton jazz performance, 343
Arthur, Chester A.
abolition support, 238
anti-racist agenda, avoidance, 240–241
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