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Campbell, Floyd
Camp David, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
Canada, Geoffrey
Canary, Cynthia
Capitol, U.S., 12.1, 13.1
Carey, Archibald J., Jr.
Carlson, Steven
Carmichael, Stokely, 4.1, 11.1
Carragher, Ally
Carril, Pete, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1
Carter, Jimmy, 12.1, 14.1
Carter, Rosalynn
Castro, Julian
Cates, Jobi Petersen, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1
Cayton, Horace R.
Chadwell Kaiser, 6.1, 6.2
Chasing Vermeer (Balliett),
Chatelain, Marcia
Chavez, Cesar
Chevy Chase Elementary School
Chicago, Ill., itr.1, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1
Altgeld in, 2.1, 6.1
antiwar rally in
Barack’s organizing in, see Obama, Barack, as community organizer
black blessings in
black population of, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 6.1
civil rights movement in, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1
corporate law in, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1
Hadiya Pendleton’s funeral in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
Hyde Park in, 1.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 14.1
Michelle returns to, 6.1, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
North Side of, 3.1, 10.1, 15.1
obstacles to blacks in, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
police in, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 11.1
politics in, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
racism in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1
Rainbow Beach in, 3.1, 3.2, 13.1
South Shore in, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 15.1
water plant jobs in, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
West Side in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
see also South Side (Chicago)
Chicago, University of, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 12.1
Barack’s teaching at, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
conservatives at
Laboratory schools of, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Michelle as medical center community outreach director at, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Michelle as vice president of community and external affairs at, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Michelle’s community service center job at, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2
Michelle’s distance from
Urban Health Initiative and
urban renewal and, 8.1, 11.1
Chicago Board of Education, 1.1, 1.2
Chicago City Hall, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Chicago Freedom Movement
Chicago Housing Authority, 7.1, 10.1
Chicago Park District, 3.1, 7.1
Chicago Urban League, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1
Chico, Gery
children, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1
after-school programs for, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 15.1
healthy eating and fitness programs for, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
in military families
school meals for
Tucson killings and
Chorley, Robert
Civil Rights Act (1964), 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 15.1
“Civil Rights Chronicles, The” (Bell)
civil rights law
civil rights movement, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
affirmative action and
in Alabama
in Chicago, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1
Harvard Law and
murders in
Princeton and
Young and
Claiborne, Daniel
Clark, Mark
Clark, Robert, 5.1, 5.2
class, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1
election of 2008 and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
law and, 5.1, 5.2
see also middle class; working class
Claypool, Forrest, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
Cleaver, Eldridge
Clinton, Bill, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1
Clinton, Chelsea
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
in election of 2008, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
as first lady, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
as secretary of state
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 2.1, 15.1
Coleman, Carrie Tinsley
Coleman, John
Collins, Jason
Community Development Block Grants
Community Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church
Compton, James W., 3.1, 3.2
Congress, U.S., 4.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
see also House of Representatives, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Club First Lady Luncheon
Congress on Your Corner gatherings
conservatives, 5.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2
Constitution, U.S., 5.1, 11.1
“Constitution and Race, The” (conference)
construction workers, 9.1, 9.2
Conyers, James E.
Cook, Mariana
Cooper, Brad
Cooper, Brittney
Cooper, John
corporate law, corporate lawyers, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1
Michelle’s work in, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1
recruiting of, 5.1, 6.1
Cosby Show, The (TV show),
Cottage Club, 4.1, 4.2
Crawford, Reuben, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1
credit, 1.1, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
criminal justice, 5.1, 8.1
criminal law
Currie, Bettie
Cutter, Stephanie
Daley, Bill
Daley, Richard J., 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, epi.1
Daley, Richard M., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 9.1
Danaher, Matthew
dance, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
Daniels, Gregory
Dan Ryan Expressway
Daughters of the Ameican Revolution
Davila, Yvonne
Davis, Frank Marshall, 6.1, 8.1
Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, 7.1, 8.1
Dawes, Dominique, 12.1, 14.1
Dawson, Bernarr E.
Declining Significance of Race, The (Wilson),
Defense Department, U.S.
DeGeneres, Ellen
del Valle, Mayda
democracy, 2.1, 5.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Democratic National Convention:
of 1968, 11.1, 11.2
of 2000, 8.1, 9.1
of 2004, 9.1, 10.1
of 2008, 1.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
of 2012, 3.1, 14.1, 14.2
Democrats, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, epi.1
Barack’s Senate race and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7
in Chicago, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
Clinton network and
election of 2008 and, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6
election of 2012 and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
Dempsey, Jason
Derks, Laura
Des Moines, Iowa, 10.1, 10.2
Despres, Leon
Detroit, Mich., 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Developing Communities Project
De Zutter, Hank
Dining Car Workers Union
discrimination, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1
pay
“positive,” 83
reverse
Title VI and
see also segregation
diversity, 7.1, 11.1
educational effects of, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
at Harvard, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Michelle’s views on, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2
Dodd, Chris
Dohrn, Bernardine, 7.1, 11.1
Donnelly, Catherine
Douglas, Gabby
Douglass, Frederick, itr.1, 5.1, 11.1
Dowd, Maureen, 9.1, 10.1
Drake, St. Clair
Dreams from My Father (B. Obama), 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2
Du Bois, W. E. B., 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 15.1
Duckworth, Tammy
Dulles, John Foster
Duncan, Arne, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1
Dunham, Madelyn “Toot,” 123, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 14.1
election of 2008 and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Dunham, Stanley, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Dunham, Stanley Ann, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
death of, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Dunn, Anita
Dunwoody, Ann E.
Durbin, Richard
Duros, Sally
DuSable High School, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1
Duster, Benjamin C., III
Duster, Murrell
economy, U.S., 14.1, 14.2
recession in, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
education, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, epi.1
art
black history in
for blacks, see blacks, education of
early childhood
healthy school meals and
integration of, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 13.1, 15.1
physical
Reach Higher and, 15.1, 15.2
segregation in, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2
Education Department, U.S.
Edwards, John, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Eimer, Nate
election of 1983, Chicago, 6.1, 7.1
election of 1996, Illinois
election of 2008, U.S., 4.1, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2
anti-Michelle narrative in, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Barack’s challenges in
Barack’s symbolic start in
change and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5
election day in, 11.1, 14.1
friends and
funding in, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1
Michelle’s concern for daughters in, 10.1, 11.1
Michelle’s speaking up in, 11.1, 13.1
Michelle’s speeches in, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 13.1
New Hampshire loss in
polls in, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
race and racism speech in
race in, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Super Tuesday in, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
videos in, 11.1, 11.2
world as it is vs. world as it should be in, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Wright and, 7.1, 11.1
election of 2012, U.S., 14.1, 15.1
Barack’s obstacles in
Michelle’s energizing of voters in
elections, U.S.:
0f 1980
of 1992
of 2000, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1
of 2004, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1
of 2006, 10.1, 10.2
of 2010, 13.1, 14.1
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, 12.1, 15.1
Elsmo, Leif, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Emancipation Proclamation
Emanuel, Rahm
English language, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
Entarfer, Beverly
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
Epstein, Richard
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S., 2.1, 5.1
equality, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
equal opportunity, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 5.1, 14.1
ethnicity, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1
Evers, Medgar
Every Day Icon (Betts),
exercise and fitness
see also “Let’s Move” project
fairness, 5.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Fallon, Jimmy, 13.1, 15.1
Farrakhan, Louis
fashion, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Housing Administration, 1.1, 1.2
Felix, Allyson
feminism, 13.1, 13.2
film, 3.1, 6.1, 15.1, 15.2
law school in, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
first lady, role of, itr.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
Fischer, Sunny
Flowers, Michael (Rahni), 9.1, 15.1
food, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 12.1
healthy eating campaign and, 2.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Food and Drug Administration
Forbush, William B., III
Ford, Betty
Ford, Dorothy J.
Ford, Gerald
Fox News, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2
freedom, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 11.1, 12.1, 15.1, epi.1
Fresh Air Fund camps
Friedman, Milton
Friend Family Health Center
friendship, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
of Barack and Michelle, 6.1, 10.1
election of 2008 and
in Washington, D.C., 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2
Frye, Jocelyn, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 12.1, 14.1
Funnye, Capers, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 11.1
Fuqua, Carl A., 2.1, 13.1
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Galluzzo, Gregory
gay rights
gender, 5.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Georgetown, S.C., 1.1, 1.2, 4.1, 10.1
Germany, 1.1, 1.2, 15.1
Giangreco, Pete
Gibbs, Robert, 11.1, 14.1
Gingrich, Newt
Gitcho, Gail
Givhan, Robin, 4.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
Golden, Krsna, 7.1, 15.1
Goldman, Ikram
Gonzalez, Omar
Gore, Al
Gray, Francesca Robinson, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1
Great Britain, 4.1, 6.1, 12.1
Great Depression, 1.1, 12.1
Great Migration, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 8.1, 12.1
Green, Adam
Green, Christina
Green, Ernest
Greene, Alan
Greenwell, Ava
Grimshaw, Jacky
Grossman, James
Gullah, 1.1, 1.2
gun control
guns, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2
hair, hairstyling, 9.1, 11.1, 15.1, epi.1
Hale, Grace, 3.1, 3.2
Hall, George Cleveland
Hamilton, Charles V.
Hampton, Fred
Hannity, Sean
Hansberry, Carl
Hansberry, Lorraine
Hardwick, Karen
Harkin, Tom, 10.1, 14.1
Harris-Perry, Melissa, 8.1, 10.1
Harvard Blackletter Journal
Harvard Business School
Harvard Law Review, 5.1, 5.2
Barack at, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Harvard Law School, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 11.1, epi.1
Barack at, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
black professors at, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
“Constitution and Race” conference at
Legal Aid Bureau of
Michelle’s dating at
Michelle’s dilemma at, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Michelle’s first year at
privilege and, 5.1, 6.1
see also Black Law Students Association
Harvard University, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1
minority-hiring practices of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
protests at, 5.1, 5.2
Harwell, Carol Anne
Hawaii, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 15.1
vacations in, 8.1, 13.1, 13.2
Hawaii, University of
health care, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2
affordable, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Barack’s initiatives for, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
for children
costs of, 13.1, 13.2
mental
> health care jobs
Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act (2010)
Heermance, Radcliffe
Hegedus, Joe
Helling, Sharon
Hemings, Sally
Hendon, Rickey
Hester, Bethann
Hibben, John Grier
Higgins, Ora C.
Hildebrand, Steve
Hill, Grant
Hilton Head, S.C., 11.1, 11.2
Hirsch, Arnold R.
Hirshman, Linda
Hispanics, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1
historic preservation
history, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, epi.1
black, 1.1, 2.1, 15.1, 15.2
election of 2008 and, 11.1, 11.2
HIV/AIDS
Holder, Eric H., Jr., 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Holland, Sharon, 4.1, 4.2
Honolulu, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
Hood, James
House of Representatives, U.S., 8.1, 8.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1
Barack’s campaign for, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10.1
see also Congress, U.S.; Senate, U.S.
housing, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 12.1, 15.1
affordable
legal cases and
restrictive covenants and, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1
segregation in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2
Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S.
Howard University, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
Hrbek, George
Huckabee, Mike
Hughes, Langston, 1.1, 1.2, 11.1
Hull, Blair
Hundley, Hope
Hunt, Richard
Hynes, Dan, 9.1, 9.2
identity issues, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1
of Barack, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1
Ifill, Gwen, 11.1, 13.1
“If I Were a Negro” series
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou),
Illinois, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1
Barack’s touring of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
redistricting in
state senate in, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 15.1
Illinois National Guard, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
immigration reform
IMPACT Illinois
income, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1
black vs. white, 7.1, epi.1
corporate law and, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
diet and
equal pay and, 12.1, 14.1
in Hyde Park
Michelle’s concerns about, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 11.1
of military spouses
minimum wage
of musicians
of Obamas
patronage jobs and, 2.1, 2.2
pay discrimination and
retirement
of Robinson family
in sports
India, 3.1, 13.1
Indiana, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
Indonesia, 6.1, 6.2
inequality, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1
education and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
in health care
see also discrimination; segregation