by Peter Slevin
Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, The (film),
infant mortality, 1.1, 7.1
insurance industry, 2.1, 9.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
integration, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1
in Chicago, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1
of military
school, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 13.1, 15.1
of Spiegel
Internet, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Internet bubble
Iowa, in election of 2008, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2
Iran, 7.1, 7.2
Iraq War, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1
Barack’s opposition to, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
Islam, 2.1, 15.1
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson, Jesse, Jr.
Jackson, Jesse, Sr., 2.1, 3.1, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2
Jackson, Santita, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 8.1
Jamal, Ahmad
James, Kelly
James, LeBron, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
Jamison, Judith, 3.1, 12.1
Jarrett, Valerie Bowman, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1
Obama campaign and, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
university medical center and, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1
in White House, 7.1, 12.1, 12.2
Jay Z (Shawn Carter), 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
jazz, 2.1, 13.1, 15.1
Jefferson, Thomas
Jemison, Mae C.
“Jena justice,” 215, 381n
Jenkins, Ferguson
Jewell, Gloria
Jewell, Leonard, Jr., 2.1, 3.1
Jewell, Leonard, Sr.
Jews, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 11.1, 11.2
Jim Crow, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
jobs, 1.1, 3.1, 12.1
for black women, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
creation of, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1
discrimination in, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
manufacturing
of military spouses
minority hiring and, 9.1, 9.2
patronage
scarcity of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
underemployment and, 2.1, 3.1
for veterans
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Wilson),
Johnson, James
Johnson, John H., 2.1, 12.1
Johnson, Lady Bird
Johnson, LaVaughn, see Robinson, LaVaughn Johnson
Johnson, Lyndon B., 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 13.1
Johnson, Phoebe Moten, 1.1, 11.1
Johnson, William H.
Joining Forces, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Jones, Emil, Jr., 8.1, 8.2
Jones, Ernestine (Aunt Sis)
Jones, James Earl
Jordan, Michael
Joyce Foundation, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
Jumper, Eliza Tinsley
Jumper, James
Jumper, Rebecca, see Shields, Rebecca Jumper
Justice Department, U.S.
juvenile delinquency
juvenile justice system
Kaepernick, Colin
Kagan, Elena
Kalven, Jamie
Kantor, Jodi
Kates, Kenneth P., 9.1, 9.2
Katzenbach, Nicholas
Kelly, Mark
Kennedy, Angela, see Acree, Angela Kennedy
Kennedy, Henry H., Jr.
Kennedy, Henry Harold, Sr., 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 3.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Kennedy, John F., 12.1, 13.1
Kennedy, Randall, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 15.1
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy, Ted, 9.1, 13.1
Kenya, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 13.1, 15.1
Kerner, Otto, Jr.
Kerner Commission, 2.1, 4.1
Kerry, John, 9.1, 11.1
Keyes, Alan, 9.1, 9.2
Keys, Alicia, 12.1, 15.1
Khan, Naeem, 13.1, 13.2
King, Coretta Scott
King, Don
King, Gayle
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2
assassination of, 2.1, 6.1, 11.1
“I Have a Dream” speech of, 11.1, 12.1
Kirsch, Vanessa
Knowles, Beyoncé, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1
Kolb, Steven
Kretzmann, Jody
Kroft, Steve
Kruglik, Mike
Kwan, Michelle
LaBelle, Patti
Lang, Mary
language, 4.1, 4.2
see also English language; Gullah
Leadership Greater Chicago
Ledbetter, Lilly
Lee, Spike, 6.1, 13.1
legal aid, 5.1, 5.2
Legal Services Corporation
Legend, John
Lehman Brothers, collapse of
Lelyveld, Katie McCormick, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Leno, Jay
Leonning, Carol
Lesbian Community Center Cancer Project
lesbians, 4.1, 15.1
“Let’s Move” project, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5
Levi, John
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Eric (ELEW)
LGBT rights
Limbaugh, Rush, 13.1, 14.1
Lin, Maya
Lincoln, Abraham, 1.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
Liston, Sonny, 2.1, 10.1, 11.1
London
Los Angeles, Calif., 8.1, 8.2
Loughner, Jared
Loury, MyKela
Lugar, Richard
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America
lynching, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1
MacArthur, Kelly Jo
Mack, Kenneth
Macmillan, Helen
Madison, Wis.
Maine
Malcolm X, 2.1, 11.1, 15.1
Malkin, Michelle
Malone, Sharon, 12.1, 13.1
Malone, Vivian
Marchant, Ann Walker
March on Washington (1963)
marriage:
gay
interracial
Marshall, Thurgood, 4.1, 5.1
Martha’s Vineyard, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1
Martin, Areva Bell, 5.1, 5.2
Martin, Michel
Marton, Kati
Maryland, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2
Matthews, Gary, Sr.
Matthews, Sandy
Maxime, Dan, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Mays, DeDe
McBride, Anita, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1
McCain, Cindy
McCain, John, 9.1, 11.1, 11.2
McClellan, Cornell
McConnell, Mitch
McCormick, John
McGuire, Matthew
McKnight, John, 7.1, 8.1
Medicaid, 9.1, 9.2
Medicare, 9.1, 13.1
Mendell, David, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
Meredith, James
Messing, Debra
Metcalfe, Ralph
Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Michigan, 3.1, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Michigan, Lake, 3.1, 7.1, 13.1
middle class, 2.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
black, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 8.1, 10.1
feminism of, 13.1, 13.2
white
Mikva, Abner J., 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1
military families, 14.1, epi.1
Miller, Robert
Milloy, Courtland
Milwaukee, Wis., 11.1, 11.2
Miner, Judson, 7.1, 7.2
“Minority and Women Law Professors” (M. Obama), 5.1, 5.2
Minow, Martha, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2
Minow, Newton, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Mississippi, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1
Mobutu Sese Seko
Moelis, Cindy, 7.1, 12.1
Montgomery, Ala., 1.1, 2.1, 4.1
Montgomery, James, 11.1, 15.1
Moody, Ann
Moody Bible Institute, 1.1, 3.1
Moorehouse College
moral
imperative, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1
“More Perfect Union, A” (B. Obama speech)
Morrison, Alan
mortgages, 1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 14.1, 14.2
Mosena, David
“move the ball,” 300–1
“Move Your Body” (reconfiguration of “Get Me Bodied”)
murder, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 14.1, 15.1
of King, 2.1, 6.1, 11.1
Newtown, 15.1, 15.2
music, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2
Aunt Robbie and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
black culture and
in elections, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1
jazz, 2.1, 13.1, 15.1
at Princeton, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
at wedding
in White House, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, epi.1
My American Journey (Powell),
My Brother’s Keeper
NAACP, 12.1, 13.1
NAACP Youth Council
Nashville, Tenn., 14.1, epi.1
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
National Black Law Students Association
National Center for Careers in Public Life, see Public Allies
National Conference of Black Lawyers
National Conference of Black Women
National Register of Historic Places
National Security Council
National Urban League
Navy, U.S.
“Negro,” use of word
Negro Leagues
neighborhood organizations, 8.1, 8.2
Nesbitt, Marty, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 14.1
election of 2008 and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Nesbitt, Roxanne
New Hampshire, in election of 2008, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2
Newman, Sandy
Newton, Huey P.
Newtown, Conn., murders in, 15.1, 15.2
New York City, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, epi.1
Barack in, 6.1, 12.1
date night in, 12.1, 14.1
Martha Washington in, 7.1, 12.1
Obama campaigns in, 10.1, 14.1
Nigeria, 4.1, 15.1
Nix, Crystal
Nixon, Richard, 3.1, 12.1
Nobel Prize
nonprofit organizations, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
nonviolence, 2.1, 2.2
Norman, Jessye
Norris, Jackie, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
North Carolina, 2.1, 4.1, 14.1, epi.1
election of 2008 and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Oakley, Tyler
Obama, Barack, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, epi.1
acts and orders signed by, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
appearance of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 13.1, epi.1
approval ratings of, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, epi.1
assassination possibility and threats against, 11.1, 14.1
background of, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
basketball and, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
biracial heritage of, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2
on boards of directors, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
book contracts of, 7.1, 9.1
campaign debt of
as community organizer, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 10.1
compromise and bipartisan efforts of, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1
confidence of, 8.1, 9.1
congressional race of, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
at Davis, Miner, 7.1, 8.1
early jobs of, 6.1, 6.2
education of, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 11.1
emotions of
fame and celebrity of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
as father, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1
finances and attitude toward money of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 11.1, 12.1, 14.1
forces against
at Harvard Law Review, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
identity issues of, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1
in Illinois senate, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 15.1
Illinois senate campaign of, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
inauguration of, 1.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2
Jarrett and, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
marriage of, 3.1, 7.1, 11.1
media attention to, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
Michelle compared with, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, epi.1
Michelle’s dating romance with, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1
Michelle’s putdowns of, 9.1, 10.1
Michelle’s relationship with, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 14.1, 15.1
morose periods of, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
name of, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
political ambitions of, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
political break of
political exit considered by, 8.1, 9.1
in presidential campaign of 2008, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2
in presidential campaign of 2012, 14.1, 15.1
problems inherited by, 12.1, 12.2
Public Allies and, 7.1, 7.2
real estate purchased by, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
in Senate, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.1, 14.1
Senate campaign of, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 11.1
sense of humor of, 6.1, 8.1
at Sidley, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 8.1
smoking of
speeches of, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2
strength of, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
teaching of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 11.1
vacations of, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1, 14.1
values of, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1
voter registration and, 7.1, 7.2
at Wingspread conference
worldliness of, 6.1, 6.2
Obama, Barack Hussein, Sr., itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Obama, Malia Ann, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
birth of, 8.1, 10.1
campaign and, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
education of, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 15.1
at sleepovers, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
travel and vacations of, 8.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2
in White House, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 15.1
Obama, Michelle Robinson:
ambitions of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 13.1
appearance of, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 15.2
awareness of disadvantages of, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
background of, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, epi.1
Barack’s Senate career and, 9.1, 9.2
Barack’s Senate race and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Batack’s presidential ambitions and
birth of
on boards of companies
caricature of
cautious and conventional nature of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 15.1
Chicago City Hall job of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Chicago residences of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
childbirth and, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
childhood of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 9.1
as closer, 10.1, 10.2
clothes of, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1
college-years jobs of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2
competitiveness of, 2.1, 3.1, 14.1
confidence and self-assurance of, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
control of, 12.1, 14.1
criticism of, itr.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
dancing of, 3.1, 3.2, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
dating and romances of, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
decision making of
early jobs of, 3.1, 3.2
education of, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, epi.1
efficiency standard of
extracurricular activities of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
faith and religion of
fame of
on family background, 2.1, 3.1
on father, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 14.1
fatigue of, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
fears of, itr.1, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
and feeling of being overwhelmed, 4.1, 12.1
fiftieth birthday of
finances of, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, epi.1
as first lady, itr.1, 2.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1
foreign travels of, 2.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
frustration and restlessness of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
as homemaker, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
identity issues of, 4.1, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
at inauguration, 12.1, 13.1
independence of, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
insecurity
LGBT rights and
list making of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
marriage of, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 11.1
middle name of
military families and, 14.1, epi.1
morale boosting of
Obama, Michelle Robinson (continued)
musical activities of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 11.1
personal tragedies of
as political wife
popularity of, itr.1, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
post-White House plans of
in presidential campaign of 2008, 3.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 14.1
in presidential campaign of 2012
privacy of, 8.1, epi.1
professional aspirations of, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1
at Public Allies, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 15.2
role conflict of, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1, 15.1
sense of humor of, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 15.1
skepticism of, 5.1, 11.1
speeches of, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, epi.1
sports and athletics of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 9.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1, 15.1
strength of, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
success of, 3.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 12.1
at summer camps, 3.1, 4.1, 13.1
Sunday drives of, 2.1, 3.1
teams avoided by, 3.1, 4.1
as teenager, 3.1, 9.1, 12.1, 15.1
testing problem of, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
University of Chicago jobs of, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 12.1