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The Black Calhouns

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by Gail Lumet Buckley


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  INDEX

  Abernathy, James, 297

  Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), 150

  Alcorn, James, 35

  Alger, Horatio, 43

  Allen, Ivan, Jr., 294–295

  All God’s Chillun Got Wings (play), 130–131

  Aluminum Ore Company, 84

  Alvarez, Santiago, 314, 315

  American Federation of Labor (AFL), 158

  American Missionary Association

  (AMA), 4–5, 17–19, 20–23, 218

  American-Soviet Friendship Council, 233

  Amos Drug Store, 97

  Amsterdam News, 153

  Anderson, Marian, 167, 169

  Anthology of Negro Poetry (Johnson), 156

  Apollo (theatre), 171

  Appeal to the World, An (Du Bois), 228

  Arlen, Harold, 154, 286

  Armstrong, Samuel, 48

  Arnold, William, Sr., 215–216

  Arthur, Chester A., 49–50

  ASCAP, 120

  Askew, T. E., 93

  Associated Press, 116

  Atlanta (Georgia)

  African American officers’ training (early twentieth century), 113–114

  Board of Education (1880s), 54

  “Circles of Ten” (First Congregational Church) and, 95–96

  civil rights movement in, 266–267, 294–297 (See also civil rights movement; voting rights)

  Civil War burning of, 13–15

  education in, during early Reconstruction-era Atlanta, 17–21

  Franks and anti-Semitism in, 105–108

  Graves family and, 89–90, 94–95, 101, 102–105, 114–116, 137–139 (See also individual family members’ names)

  Jim Crow laws in (early twentieth century), 92–95

  middle-class African Americans in (early twentieth century), 89–92

  NAACP in (early twentieth century), 111–113

  public education in (early twentieth century), 108–111, 113

  race riot (September 24, 1906) in, 96–102

  Reconstruction-era middle-class African Americans in, 9–10

  Turner’s lynching (in Valdosta, Georgia), 116

  Young and, 300–301, 310

  “Atlanta Compromise” speech (Washington), 59

  Atlanta Constitution

  on Frank case, 106

  on Moses Calhoun, 2


  obituary of Nash, Sr., 319, 321

  race riot (September 24, 1906) and, 96–102

  Reconstruction-era stories in, 28, 51–52, 54–55

  SNCC advertisement in, 292

  Atlanta Daily World, 317–318

  Atlanta Defiance, 57

  Atlanta Housing Authority, 297

  Atlanta Independent, 101, 102–103, 157

  Atlanta Journal, 96–102

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 308–309

  Atlanta Life Insurance Company, 97

  Atlanta Negro Voters League, 260

  Atlanta News, 96–102

  Atlanta University

  in 1950s, 268

  Asa Ware and, 4, 20–23, 35, 38, 48, 51–52

  Cora Calhoun Horne’s graduation from, 51–52

  Du Bois and, 91, 100

  Du Bois Institute of, 317

  Edward Twichell Ware as president of, 103, 104

  financial support of, 103–104

  founding of, 4, 20, 21, 22

  high school education offered by, 109

  Horne’s visit to, 310

  sports at, 94

  state regulation of, 27–29, 37–39, 47–48

  Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (Johnson), 113

  Bacharach, Burt, 250

  Badger, Ras, 54–55

  Bailey, Frederick Augustus. See Douglass, Frederick

  Baker, Ella, 266–267, 291

  Baker, Josephine, 120, 131, 236

  Baker, Ray Stannard, 90–91, 97, 100–101

  Baldwin, James, 281

  Ballou, Charles C., 114

  Baptist Koinonia community, 266

  Barnet, Charlie, 171–172

  Barron, Jimmy, 230–231

  Barry, Marion, 292

  Basie, William James “Count,” 184

  Bates, Daisy, 192

  “Battle of Jericho, The” (song), 184–185

  Beecher, Reverend Henry Ward, 20

  Belafonte, Harry, 247, 281, 306

  Bell, Alexander Graham, 42, 50

  Belle Isle Bridge (Michigan), 1943 riot at, 213

  Bentley, Ellene Terrell, 261

  Berch, Barbara, 178–179

  Berkowitz, Bernard, 304

  Berman, Paul, 220–221

  Bethune, Mary McLeod, 159–160, 166–167, 222

  Bibb, Joseph D., 164

  Big Brothers and Big Sisters Federation, 82, 124, 129

  “Big Three Unity for Colonial Freedom,” 222

  Bilbo, Theodore G., 150, 167, 254–255

  Birmingham (Alabama)

  Moses Calhoun’s family in, 54–57, 58

  Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (1963) in, 283–284

  Birth of a Nation (film), 77–78

  Blackbirds (play), 121–122

  Blackbirds of 1939 (play), 165

  “Black Codes,” 9–10

  Black Fire (Peery), 188

  Black Manhattan (Johnson), 73–74

  “Black Peril” edict, 72–75

  Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (Du Bois), 8

  Black Women in America (Hine), 185

  Blaine, James G., 42

  Blair, Betsy, 194–197

  Blake, Eubie, 117–120, 121

  Blake, John Sumner, 118

  Blane, Ralph, 190

  Bluebird Records, 172

  “Blue Moon” (song), 159

  Blumstein’s (Harlem department store), 156

  Bogart, Humphrey, 194

  Bond, Julian, 267–268, 300

  Bontemps, Arna, 235

  Boogie-Woogie Dream (film), 190

  Boy Scouts, 163

  Boys Welcome Hall, 126

  Brady, Mathew, 14

  Brewer, Roy, 240–243

  Brewster, Willie, 299

  Broadway Rhythm (film), 190

  Broun, Heywood, 120

  Brown, Antoinette, 204, 205, 206

  Brown, Joseph E., 27–28

  Brown, Kathryn, 204–209, 210

  Brown, Nellie Graves

  career of, 205–206, 266

  childhood of, 54, 89, 102–103, 204, 210

  children of, 203

  education of, 103, 266

  marriage of, 105

  photo of, 104–105

  Brown, Noel, 105, 203

  Brown, Sterling, 176, 219, 285

  Brown v. Board of Education, 244, 263

  Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 35, 43, 44, 59

  Bruce, Josephine Wilson, 45

  Bruce, Roscoe Conkling, 45

  Buckley, Gail Lumet

  biographical information, 7

  birth of, 164

  childhood of, 172, 178, 181–182, 194, 227, 238–239, 312–313

  divorce of, 304–305

  early career of, 250–251

  education of, 193, 233, 237–238, 244–245

  Kennedy campaign (1958) and, 6

  at Life, 277–280

  marriage to Buckley, 305

  marriage to Lumet, 288–289

  National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students (NSSFNS) and, 269–275, 277

  religious views of, 275

  Buckley, Kevin, 305

  Bunn, Frankye, 146, 148, 156–157, 167

  Burke, Monsignor John, 68

  Burns, Tommy, 70

  Burton, Richard, 248, 277, 310

  Byrd, Harry, 210, 265

  Cabin in the Sky (film), 184, 226, 236

  Café Society, 172–174

  cakewalk (dance), 121

  Calhoun, Andrew Bonaparte (slaveowner), 2

  Calhoun, Andrew Bonaparte “A. B.,” 10, 13, 14, 21, 26

  Calhoun, Atlanta Mary (Fernando), 1, 16, 24, 39–40, 55, 56, 58

  Calhoun, Catherine Sinai “Siny” (Moses Calhoun’s sister), 2, 10–11, 13, 21, 23–24, 26

  Calhoun, Cora. See Horne, Cora Calhoun

  Calhoun, Felix, 12

  Calhoun, Henry, 11–12

  Calhoun, John C., 2, 10

  Calhoun, Lena. See Smith, Lena Calhoun

  Calhoun, Moses

  career and wealth of, 21, 25, 29, 34, 39–40, 58

  death of, 58, 63

  emancipation of, 16

  marriage and children of, 1–2, 23–24

  move to Birmingham by, 54–57

  as slave, 10–13

  Calhoun, Nellie, 2, 10–13, 21, 23–24

  Calhoun, Sinai (Moses Calhoun’s grandmother), 11–12

  Calhoun Connection, The (Nash), 320

  Callender, Charles, 39

  Calloway, Cab, 155

  “Call to Makers of Black Verse, A” (Horne), 132–133

  Candler, Asa G., 110

  Cannon, Poppy, 264

  Carnegie Hall, 74, 76, 287–288

  Carter, Jimmy, 301

  Cason, Casey, 272–274, 300–301

  Castle, Irene, 75

  Castle, Vernon, 75

  Catlin, Charlotte, 165

  Cats ‘n’ Jammers (WOR), 173

  Cauldwell, Bill, 272

  CBS, 241

  Central High School (Cleveland), 118

  Chace, James, 75, 76–77

  Chaires, Pinkie, 115, 140, 206

  Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, The (NBC), 173

  Chambliss, Robert, 284

  Chaney, James, 298

  Chaplin, Judy, 231

  Chaplin, Saul, 231

  Chase, Edna Woolman, 77

  Chattanooga Justice, 57

  Chautaqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC), 138–139

  Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 14

  Chez Paree, 191, 221

  Chicago, riot (July 12, 1951) in, 262–263

  Chicago Defender, 82, 130

  Chinlund, Reverend Stephen, 289

  Chisholm, Charles Sumner “Chiz,” 207, 209–210, 214, 317

  Chisholm, Cheryl, 209, 268, 292–293, 317, 318

  Chisholm, Harriet Nash, 204, 207, 209–210, 292, 309–310

  Chocolate Dandies (play), 121

  Church of St. Benedict the Moor, 68
/>   Circle for Negro War Relief, 76

  “Circles of Ten” (First Congregational Church) and, 95–96

  Citizen Tom Paine (Fast), 225

  Civil Rights Act of 1875, 31–32, 51

  civil rights movement, 291–301. See also voting rights; individual names of civil rights leaders

  in Atlanta, 294–297

  Civil Rights Act of 1964, 271

  Civil Rights Bill of 1964, 295

  Civil Rights Commission, 258

  Civil Rights Message (Truman), 228

  Delta Sigma Thetas and, 276–277, 280–281

  Evers and, 282–283

  “He Won’t Stay Put” (Horne) on, 285

  Kennedy administration on, 281–282

  March on Washington and, 283

  National Committee against Discrimination in Housing and, 284–285

  National Scholarship Service and

  Fund for Negro Students (NSSFNS), 269–275, 277

  “Now” (Comden, Green) on, 286–288, 289–290

  overview, 291

  Presidential Committee on Civil Rights, 256

  race riots and Selma-to-Montgomery march (1964-1965), 298–300 (See also race riots)

  Republican Party and Communist

  Party platforms on (1936), 161–162

  Silent Protest march (July 28, 1917), 84

  Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama) bombing (1963) and, 283–284, 286

  SNCC and, 269–275, 282, 287–288, 291–293, 298–299

  Vietnam War protests and, 279

  Voting Rights Act of 1965, 300

  Civil Service Loyalty Review Board, 234

  Civil War. See also Reconstruction

  African American regiments in, 15–16, 19, 46

  “Black Codes,” 9–10

  burning of Atlanta during, 13–15

  Fort Pillow massacre, 26–27

  Clansman, The (Dixon), 75

  Clark, Kenneth, 281

  Clef Club Orchestra, 73–75, 74

  Cleveland, Grover, 66

  Cohan, George M., 72

  Cole, Jack, 198

  Collins, Addie Mae, 284

  Collins, Scipio, 227

  Colored Co-operative Civic League, 102

  Colored Orphan Asylum, 65, 83

  Colored Press Association, 66

  Colored World (Indianapolis), 45

  Comden, Betty, 127, 286–287

  Communism. See also Communist Party USA (CPUSA)

  African Americans’ interest in (1930s), 156

  civil right platform of (1936), 162

  Hollywood Ten, 219

  Horne’s political views and, 219–229, 240–243, 245–246

  HUAC and, 221, 225–226, 228–229, 233–236, 240–244, 257, 287

 

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