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by Clarence Lusane


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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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