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41 “just another example”: Barack Obama, speech at Morehouse College commencement, May 19, 2013.
42 “There’s a lot wrong here”: Ta-Nehisi Coates, “How the Obama Administration Talks to Black America,” Atlantic, May 20, 2013.
43 “some thoughtful and sometimes not so thoughtful”: Remnick, “Going the Distance.”
44 “critical matters of racial justice”: Randall Kennedy, “Did Obama Fail Black America?,” Politico Magazine, July/August 2014.
45 “nation of cowards”: Eric Holder, remarks on Black History Month, Washington, D.C., February 18, 2009.
46 “ ‘When you get ready to spend’ ”: Jim Montgomery, interview with author.
47 “plain fact”: Barack Obama, remarks on My Brother’s Keeper, February 27, 2014.
48 “I may not be a Marine”: White House transcript, March 12, 2014.
49 Representatives approved: Food Resource and Action Center, October 2011, http://frac.org/about.
50 “When we send our kids”: Michelle Obama, remarks in Alexandria, Va., January 25, 2012.
51 “I know that kids”: Michelle Obama, remarks in Washington, D.C., September 12, 2013.
52 “You don’t have to be”: Michelle Obama, “The Campaign for Junk Food,” New York Times, May 28, 2014.
53 “working hard to serve”: Ibid.
54 “We simply can’t afford”: Michelle Obama, remarks at the White House, June 12, 2014.
55 “a stain on the soul”: Kathleen Curthoys, “Helping Homeless Vets,” Army Times, August 11, 2014.
56 “just wrong”: Michelle Obama, remarks at Women’s Veterans Care Development Forum, Arlington, Va., November 10, 2014.
57 “hard to know what to say”: Michelle Obama, remarks in Chicago, April 10, 2013.
58 “And that, in the end”: Ibid.
59 The need was clear: Martha J. Bailey and Susan M. Dynarsk, cited in White House fact sheet, “Increasing College Access for Low-Income Students,” January 2014.
60 By 2014, the country: “Education at a Glance 2013,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
61 where the 2014–2015 tuition: Sidwell Friends School, website.
62 “tilts the playing field”: Barack Obama, remarks on higher education, White House, January 16, 2014.
63 “Because there are millions”: Michelle Obama, remarks, White House, January 15, 2014.
64 “to seek them out and give them”: Ibid.
65 “Are you listening”: Michelle Obama, remarks, Atlanta, September 8, 2014.
EPILOGUE
1 “just wastes time”: Michelle Obama, remarks, Atlanta, September 8, 2014.
2 only 36 percent: Editorial, “The Worst Voter Turnout in 72 Years,” New York Times, November 11, 2014.
3 yawning gaps: Pew Research Center, “King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal,” August 22, 2013.
4 Michelle herself said: Michelle Obama, remarks in Topeka, Kan., May 17, 2014.
5 “incredible amounts of change”: Marcia Chatelain, interview with author.
6 “playing a long game”: Michelle Obama, speech, Democratic National Convention, September 5, 2012.
7 “I want to know”: Jackie Calmes, “When a Boy Found a Familiar Feel in a Pat of the Head of State,” New York Times, May 24, 2012.
8 “I want you to think”: Michelle Obama, remarks to African Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference, Nashville, Tenn., June 28, 2012.
9 “something changed when”: Michelle Obama, remarks at the White House, February 25, 2011.
10 “why, as first lady, I do this”: Michelle Obama, remarks at Georgetown University, November 8, 2011.
11 “We have a black family”: BET Honors, January 14, 2012.
12 “celebrated black women’s”: Michelle Obama, remarks in Winston-Salem, N.C., June 7, 2014.
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Index
Abbott, Robert S.
Abernathy, Ralph
abortion rights, 12.1, 13.1
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), 7.1, 8.1
Acree, Angela Kennedy, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 15.1
affirmative action, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Affordable Care Act, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Afghanistan War, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
African-American Contractors Association
African Americans, see blacks
African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 14.1
after-school programs, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 15.1
Agriculture Department, U.S., 1.1, 12.1, 15.1
Alabama, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 4.1, 13.1
Alele, Suzanne, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
Ali, Muhammad, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1
Alinsky, Saul, 6.1, 8.1
Allen, Ray
American Academy of Pediatrics, 13.1, 14.1
American Grown (M. Obama),
American Tapestry (Swarns),
AmeriCorps, 4.1, 7.1
Anacostia High School, itr.1, itr.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
Anderson, Marian, itr.1, 12.1
Angelou, Maya, 2.1, 8.1, epi.1
Ankeny, Iowa
Archie, Joan
Arias, Óscar
Arizona, University of
armed forces, U.S.
Army, U.S., 1.1, 1.2, 11.1
Fraser Jr. in, 1.1, 1.2
Fraser III in, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
art, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 13.1, 15.1
Art Institute of Chicago, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 6.1
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD model), 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Audacity of Hope, The (B. Obama), 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Axelrod, David, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Ayers, William, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2
Baker, Peter
Bakke, Alan
Baldwin, James
Balliett, Blue
Balz, Dan
banks, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 11.1
Barnett, William
Barnett v. Daley
Bartholet, Elizabeth
baseball, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1
basketball, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 14.1
Barack’s coaching of
Barack’s playing of, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 11.1
Princeton and, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1
Beard, Hilary, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Bell, Derrick, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Berenson, Bradford
Bethune, Mary McCleod, 1.1, 10.1
Betts, Kate
Bible, 1.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
bicycles, bike riding, 2.1, 3.1, 13.1
Biden, Jill
Biden, Joe, 10.1, 14.1
Big Girls Don’t Cry (Traisterl),
Billingsley, Andrew
bin Laden, Osama
Birmingham, Ala., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
birthers
Black, Timuel
Black Elected Officials (Wallace and Conyers),
Black Families in White America (Billingsley),
Black Justice in a White World (Wright),
Black Law Students Association (BLSA), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6
Black Metropolis (Drake and Cayton),
Black Panthers, 2.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
black power, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
Black Power (Hamilton and Carmichael),
blacks
affirmative action and, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Barack’s congressional campaign and
class differences of, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
as construction workers, 9.1, 9.2
culture of
education of, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
election of 2008 and, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
election of 2012 and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
gay rights and
in Great Migration, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2
health care for, 9.1, 15.1
isolation of, 4.1, 4.2
lower-class, 4.1, 5.1, 15.1
low-income
patronage and, 2.1, 6.1
in sports, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
talented tenth and, 5.1, 6.1
“twoness” and
University of Chicago relations with, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
&n
bsp; use of word
voting by, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 14.1
in Washington, D.C.
White House and
women, Michelle’s first lady role and
see also civil rights movement; integration; segregation
Blagojevich, Rod, 9.1, 9.2
Blanchard, Anita, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1
Blitt, Barry
Boehner, John
Bok, Derek, 5.1, 5.2
Boko Haram
Bono
Booker T. Washington Legend (Johnson),
Bork, Robert
Borowitz, Andy
Boston, Mass., 5.1, 9.1, 9.2
Bowen, William
Bowman, Barbara Taylor, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Bowman, James, 7.1, 10.1
Bowman, Valerie, see Jarrett, Valerie Bowman
Boyer, John W.
Boykin, Tracy
Bradley, Bill
Bradley, Mamie Till
Branch, Taylor
Brasuell, Czerny, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Brasuell, Jonathan, 4.1, 4.2
Braun, Carol Moseley
Brazier, Arthur M., 7.1, 9.1
Brees, Drew
Brennan, William J., Jr.
Bressler, Marvin, 4.1, 4.2
Bridges, Ruby
Brooks, David
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Browder, Earl
Brown, Alice
Brown, Charlie, 1.1, 1.2
Brown, Claude
Brown, Oliver
Brown, Sherrod
Browne, Katrina
Brownfield, John
Brown v. Board of Education, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 14.1
Bruce, Ken, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Brye, Elaine
Bryn Mawr Elementary, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1
budget deficits, 9.1, 12.1, 14.1
Burch, Tory
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Burns, Douglas
Burrell, Sam
Burroughs, Margaret
Burton, Bill, 11.1, 11.2
Bush, Barbara, 11.1, 12.1, epi.1
Bush, George H. W., 11.1, 13.1, 14.1
Bush, George W., 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 14.2
Iraq War and, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
Bush, Laura, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 13.1, 14.1, epi.1
Business International
Cabrini-Green
California, 13.1, 15.1
Barack in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1
Calloway, Sway
Camp Anita Bliss Coler (Camp ABC)