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Illustration Credits
PART ONE
Page 24: Todd, Anatole, Sandy, and Bliss Broyard. Mary Inabinet. Page 53: Bliss, Todd, and Sandy Broyard. Courtesy of Sandy Broyard. Page 61: Bliss and Anatole Broyard. Sandy Broyard. Page 76: Shirley Broyard Williams. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 80: Lorraine Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 92: Anatole Broyard’s childhood home in New Orleans. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 121: Los Angeles Broyards at Harold and Belle’s. Collection of author.
PART TWO
Page 149: A View of New Orleans from the Opposite Bank of the Mississippi, 1765. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 159: Hoisting American Colors, Louisiana Cession, 1803, Thure de Thulstrup, c. 1903. Collection of the Louisiana Historical Society, courtesy of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 165: The Battle of New Orleans, John Andrews, 1856. Detail showing free black battalions. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 167: Sale of Estates, Pictures, and Slaves in the Rotunda, New Orleans, W. H. Brooke and J. M. Starling, c. 1860. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 172: Fashionable African-American Women, Edouard Marquis, 1867. Detail. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 174: The Negro Gallery, July 15, 1871. Reproduced from Every Saturday. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 183: Tootie Montana, Big Chief, Yellow Pocahontas, 1991. Michael P. Smith. Page 192: Free Blacks from Saint-Domingue, Labrousse, c. 1790. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 220: Assault of the Second Louisiana (Colored) Regiment on the Confederate Works at Port Hudson, May 27th, 1863. From The Soldier in Our Civil War. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 246: The Riot in New Orleans. Harper’s Weekly, August 25, 1866. Collection of the Louisiana State Museum. Page 253: Paul Broyard. Courtesy of Joyce Howard. Page 272: Rosa Cousin. Courtesy of Joyce Howard. Page 289: Bliss Broyard and host at Plantation Revelers Ball. Collection of author. Page 296: Bliss Broyard dressed for Bunch Club Ball. Collection of author. Page 303: Paul Broyard and his two brothers standing, with two laborers seated. Courtesy of Joyce Howard. Page 307: Paul Anatole “Nat” Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 308: Nat Broyard and Edna Miller Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams.
PART THREE
Page 321: Lorraine, Shirley, and Anatole “Bud” Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 338: Anatole “Bud” Broyard. Boys High School Yearbook, 1937. Page 343: Flora Finkelstein reclining on friends from Brooklyn College. Courtesy of Gerald Cross. Page 351: Ethel Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 354: Application for social security number. Collection of author. Page 373: Second Lieutenant Anatole Broyard. Collection of author. Page 377: Anatole Broyard (left). Courtesy of Sandy Broyard. Franklin Williams (right). Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 378: First Lieutenant Anatole Broyard. Courtesy of Shirley Williams. Page 383: Sheri Martinelli. Courtesy of Steven Moore. Page 402: Anatole Broyard in Time magazine. Ben Martin for TIME. Pages 408–9: Anatole Broyard’s girlfriends. Collection of author. Page 422: Anatole Broyard and Sandy Nelson cutting their wedding cake. Courtesy of S
andy Broyard. Page 423: Lorraine and Edna Broyard and Sandy Nelson at Anatole and Sandy’s wedding. Courtesy of Sandy Broyard. Page 425: Todd and Bliss Broyard. Sandy Broyard. Page 449: Anatole Broyard. Sandy Broyard. Page 466: Bliss and Anatole Broyard. Sandy Broyard.
About the Author
Bliss Broyard is the author of the collection of stories My Father, Dancing, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Art of the Essay, and have appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, the New York Times, Elle, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
* My grandfather’s given name on his own birth certificate was Paul Anatole Broyard. But for most of his life, in both casual and official circumstances, he seems to have used the name Anatole Paul Broyard, as he did here on my father’s birth certificate. I have called him Paul Anatole or by his nickname, Nat, throughout this narrative.