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Abbott, Greg, 265, 267
ABC News, 159, 160, 168
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (Lew Alcindor), 17
Abernathy, Ralph, 44
Abyssinian Baptist Church (Harlem), 69, 143, 225
Abzug, Bella, 34
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), 91, 320
Adams, John, 172
Adams, John Quincy, 172
Advancement Project, 266
affirmative action, 84, 85, 97, 169, 170, 210, 296
Affordable Care Act, 207, 213, 214, 217–24, 247, 253, 294
Afghanistan, 232
Africa, Clinton’s visit to, 92–93
African American voter turnout. See black voter turnout
African National Congress, 43
Agnew, Phillip, 274–75
Agriculture Department, U.S., 73, 228–31
Ailes, Roger, 56
air traffic controllers strike, 43
Alabama Democratic Conference, 137
Al-Assad, Bashar, 280
Alexander, Clifford, Jr., 40
Alexander, Michelle, 268
Allen, George, 125
All in the Family (TV show), 26, 28–29
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 78
American Legislative Exchange Council, 250–51
Amsterdam News, 19, 20
Angelou, Maya, 139, 333n
Angry White Male, 80–81
anti-war movement, 14–19, 34–35
apartheid, 43, 48, 50, 65–66, 111
Apollo Theater (Harlem), 143–44
Apostolic Church of God (Chicago), 179, 180–81
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 62
Apple, R. W., 53
Arafat, Yasser, 49
Armstrong, Louis, 173
Arsenio Hall Show, The (TV show), 69–70
assault weapons ban, 78, 109
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 91, 320
Atlantic, The (magazine), 36, 259, 279–80, 286
Attica Prison riot, 35
Atwater, Lee, 56, 158
Audacity of Hope, The (Obama), 128
Austin, Jerry, 51
Axelrod, David, 128–29, 168
Babbitt, Bruce, 51–52
Bachman, Michelle, 219
Bain Capital, 247
Baldwin, James, 300
Baraka, Amiri, 30
Barber, William, 266
Baseball Hall of Fame, 18
Baucus, Max, 221
Baumfree, Isabella (Sojourner Truth), 256
Beach, Walter, 17
Beatles, the, 5
Beck, Glenn, 217, 234
Beckel, Bob, 50
Begala, Paul, 68
Belafonte, Harry, 18
Belcher, Cornell, 268
Bell, Derrick, 62
Bell, Sean, 281
Benedict College, 142
Benghazi attacks, 263, 316
Benjamin, Rich, 273
Bennett College, 8
Bentsen, Lloyd, 56
Bethel AME Church (Harlem), 106
Bethesda Naval Hospital, 172
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 205
Beyoncé, 198, 253
Biden, Jill, 190
Biden, Joe
presidential election of 1988, 51–52
presidential election of 2008, 190, 215, 293
presidential election of 2016, 314, 320
Republican obstruction and, 206, 213
Birmingham church bombing, 4, 256
Black, Timuel, 111, 173
Black Codes, 96
black fatherhood and personal responsibility, Obama on, 179, 180–82, 256, 258–59
Black Institute, 320
Black Lives Matter movement, 277, 291, 317, 321
Black Panthers, 24, 30, 42
Black Power, 18, 19
black unemployment, 226, 240
black voter turnout
1936, 8–9
1948, 42
1972, 35, 39
1980, 42, 43
1984, 39–40, 95
1988, 53, 56–57
1992, 71
1994, 80–81
2000, 95
2006, 125, 127
2008, 193–94, 195, 252
2010, 235, 236–37
2012, 248, 250, 252
2014, 292–93
2016 potential, 314–15
Blackwell, Ken, 126
Blanco, Kathleen, 122
Blow, Charles, 302–3
Boehner, John, 221, 305
Bond, Christopher “Kit,” 278
Bond, Julian, 30, 110, 126, 148, 172, 274
Booker, Cory, 295
Bositis, David
Clinton and presidential election of 1992, 64, 65, 66–67
Clinton presidency and, 88, 137
Obama and presidential election of 2008, 194
on racially polarized voting, 235–36
on white working-class voters, 195
Boston Garden, 22
Bouie, Jamelle, 259, 286, 289
Bowman, Barbara Taylor, 200
Bowman, James Edward, 200
Boxer, Barbara, 72
Bradley, Bill, 106
Bradley, Tom, 129–30
Bradley Foundation, 251
Brady Bill, 109
Branch Davidians, 75
Brawley, Tawana, 61
Brazile, Donna, 135, 151
Breitbart, Andrew, 228, 230
Bright Hope Baptist Church (Philadelphia), 257
Broder, David S., 36
Brooke, Edward, 11, 13, 21, 29, 114, 116, 150
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 109
Brown, Corinne, 71, 100
Brown, James, 22, 43, 61
Brown, Jerry, 38, 64, 65, 70
Brown, Jim, 17
Brown, Michael, shooting in Ferguson, 276–92, 301–2
Brown, Ron, 58, 73–74
Brown Chapel AME (Selma, Alabama), 139–40, 302–3
Brownstein, Ron, 248
Brown v. Board of Education, 2, 9–10, 210
Buchanan, Pat, 80, 93, 96
Bunche, Ralph, 299
Burnette, Buck, 207
Burns, Will, 166
Bush, Barbara, 124
Bush, George H. W., 303, 316
poverty rate during presidency, 88
presidential election of 1988, ix–x, 56–57
presidential election of 1992, 70–71
Rodney King beating, 285
Bush, George W., 137, 316
Kanye and Hurricane Katrina, 119–25
Obama compared with, 233
presidential election of 2000, 94–95, 97, 98–99
presidential election of 2004, 108, 113
Selma 50th Anniversary, 298
Ted Kennedy’s funeral mass, 217
Tubbs Jones’s death, 187
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb,” 96, 97, 284, 320
Bush, Laura, 298
Bush v. Gore, 94–95, 97
“butterfly ballots,” in Florida, 96
Butts, Calvin, 69, 225
Byrd, Robert, 6
Byrne, Jane, 46
Cambridge Police Department, 214–15
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, 71
Cantor, Eric, 218
Capehart, Jonathan, 259, 260
Carlos, John, 19
Carmichael, Stokely, 15, 18, 19, 148
Carter, Jimmy, xi, 36–41, 74, 303
presidential election of 1976, 37–40, 57
presidential election of 1980, x, 42, 43
Ted Kennedy’s funeral mass, 217
Cassell, Jack, 223–24
Castro, Fidel, 40
Castro, Julián, 261
CBS News, 14, 34, 107
Center for American Progress, 249
Central Burial Association, 51
Central High Anniversary, 57
Central Park jogger case, 60
Chait, Jonathan, 259
Chaney, James, 6, 7
Chappaquiddick incident, 28
Chappelle-Nadal, Maria, 278
Chavis, Ben, 86
Chicago, 108–9, 114, 200–201
Chicago Bulls, 201
Chicago Defender, 203
Chicago Housing Authority, 200
Chicago Sunday Evening Club, 12
Chicago Tribune, 110, 167
Children’s Defense Fund, 78, 86–87
child tax credits, 88
Chisholm, Shirley, 29–30, 148
presidential bid of 1972, 32–33, 34, 42, 132, 144, 330–31n
Chock Full O’Nuts, 18
Chuck D, 66, 130
Church, Frank, 38
Church of God in Christ (Memphis) Convocation, 90
Cisneros, Henry, 73, 85
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 96
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 4–7, 11, 14, 21, 147–48
Civil Rights Act of 1968, 21
civil rights legislation, and LBJ, x, 1–9, 11, 20–21, 24, 27, 28, 147–48, 327n, 329n
civil rights movement, 1–8, 10, 20–21, 60, 210
Clark, Jim, 298
Clarkson, Kelly, 253
Clay, Cassius. See Muhammad Ali
Clay, William “Lacy,” 29–30, 278
Clayton, Eva M., 101
Cleaver, Emanuel, 58, 166–67, 219–20, 240, 278
Clinton, Bill
black supporters of, 58–59, 76–77, 78, 85–86, 89–95
Democratic Convention address (1988), 58
as “first black president,” xi, 94, 162, 303
health-care reform and Obama, 222
Jackson and, 57–58, 59, 63–64, 65–70, 73, 85, 88–89, 92, 93–94, 162, 205
midterm elections of 1994, 79–84
midterm elections of 2010, 235
O. J. Simpson verdict, 285
Obama comparison with, 193
presidency of, 73–81, 84–94, 98, 310, 316, 321
Africa visit, 92–93
Guinier nomination, 75–77
health-care fight, 75, 84, 85, 87, 90
New Covenant, 85–87
Omnibus Crime Bill, 77–78, 83
poverty rate, 88
welfare reform, 84–88, 102
presidential election of 1992, 57, 62–73, 181–82
presidential election of 1996, 87, 90
presidential election of 2008, 147, 158–62, 192–93
black America and Obama, 162–63
Clyburn and, 152, 153, 158, 161–62
convention speech, 189–90
Joyner radio call-in, 153–54
Obama lunch, 191–93
Obama’s Iraq War stance, 148–49, 153–54
playing the race card, 159–62
Sharpton and, 143
presidential election of 2012, 248–50
Selma 50th Anniversary and, 303–4
Sister Souljah moment, 65–70, 77, 90, 105, 162, 181
Ted Kennedy’s funeral mass, 217
Third Way of, 58–59, 62–63, 84, 85, 89–90
“tough on crime” messaging, 64–65, 77–78, 81, 89–90
Tubbs Jones’s death and, 190–91
Clinton, Chelsea, 310–11
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
background of, 11–13, 20, 22
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 284–85, 287–89
health-care fight and, 75, 90, 222
Iraq War vote, 107–8, 129, 149, 153–54
King speech in Chicago, 12–13
New York U.S. Senate election of 2000, 101–7
Obama and Illinois Senate bid of 2004, 107–8
presidential election of 1964 and Goldwater, 11–13
presidential primary of 2008, xi, 128–29, 130, 135–40, 143–44, 146–67, 309, 311, 316
black support, 137–40, 165–67, 192–93
concession speech, 187–88
Dr. King’s legacy, 146–48, 152, 154–55, 156–57
Howard University debate, 141
Iowa, 309, 312–14
New Hampshire, 149–51, 154
South Carolina, 152–54, 155, 156, 158–61, 179–80
Wright controversy, 176
presidential election of 2012, 248–49
presidential election of 2016, 308–22
black voters and demographics, 314–15, 319–20
campaign message, 310–14
criminal justice reform, 317–19
formal announcement, 309
official moniker, 308–9
potential challengers, 321–22
potential pitfalls, 315–17
Scott’s funeral, 317
as Secretary of State, 198–99, 249, 279–80
Selma 50th Anniversary and, 303–4
Trayvon Martin case, 270
Tubbs Jones and, 154–55, 166–67, 187, 190
Wright Edelman and, 86–87, 150
Clinton Foundation, 310, 321
Clinton Global Initiative, 303, 310
Clyburn, James “Jim,” 71, 317
Clinton and legislation, 77, 78
Obama and health-care reform, 218, 219, 220, 221
presidential primary of 2008, 152–53, 158, 161–62
CNBC, Santelli’s rant on, 213
CNN, 68, 88, 138, 151, 158, 182–83, 202–3, 230–31, 268, 282, 288, 305–6
Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 198, 259, 286, 289
Cobb, Jelani, 259
Coca-Cola Company, 18
Cohen, Janet Langhart, 268–69
Cohen, William, 268–69
Cole, Nat King, 109
Coleman, Milton, 48–49
Collier’s (magazine), 9
Columbia University, 317, 318–19
Commerce U.S. Department of (DOC), 73–74
Commission on Civil Rights, U.S., 96
Concord Baptist Church (Brooklyn), 32
Confederate History Month, 224
Congressional Black Caucus
Brown and Ferguson, 290
Clinton and, 77, 78
founding members of, 29–30
Gore and certification of election of 2000, 98–101
Hall and slavery apology, 91–92
Jackson’s presidential bids, 48, 53
midterm elections of 1994, 79
midterm elections of 2014, 294–95
Obama and, 152–53, 203–5, 226, 234–35, 239–40, 241
presidential elections of 1992, 71
presidential primary of 2008, 135, 139–40, 152–53, 161, 164, 165
South Africa and apartheid, 43
Tubbs Jones and, 167
congressional elections
1986, 55
1994, 79–84, 82–83
2006, 125–29
2010, 232, 234–37
2014, 292–96
Congress of Racial Equality, 3, 327n
Conscience of a Conservative (Goldwater), 12
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 261
Contract with America, 83–84
Conyers, John, 30, 78, 165, 236
Cooper, Anderson, 183
Cooper, Helene, 211
Cordray, Richard, 261
Corker, Bob, 127
Cornyn, John, 267
Cosby Show, The (TV show), 208
Cottman, Michael H., 303
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S., 260
crack cocaine, 56, 65, 74
“cram down” policy, 213
Crawford, John, III, 291
crime
Clinton’s Omnibus Crime Bill, 77–78, 83
“tough on crime” messaging, 56, 64–65, 77–78, 81, 89–90
criminal justice, 253, 268, 306, 317–19
Cronkite, Walter, 14, 217
Crossfire (TV show), 68
Crowley, James, 214–16
Crown Heights riot, 61
Crump, Benjamin, 242
Cuba, 40, 295
Cummings, Elijah, 101
Cuomo, Andrew, 102, 154
Cuomo, Mario, 59, 83
Democratic Convention address (1984), 49–50, 113
Daily Kos, 159
Daley, Richard J., 21, 22, 23, 25, 36, 46
Daley, Richard M., 46, 47, 85, 131, 200
Daley, William, 202
Daschle, Tom, 108
Davis, Angela, 148
Davis, Benjamin O., 41
Davis, Danny K., 89, 117
Davis, Geoff, 207
Davis, Jim, 128
Davis, Jordan, 275
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 26
Davis, Willie, 17
Dawson, William, 108
Dean, Howard, 116, 172, 309
death penalty, 63–64, 272
DeBerry, Jarvis, 290–91
De Blasio, Bill, 103, 105, 312, 322
Dee, Ruby, 18
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 232
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 87
DeLay, Tom, 93
Dellums, Ronald, 30, 78
Democratic Governor’s Campaign Committee, 37
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), 58, 59, 128, 292
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 37, 135–36
Democratic National Conventions
1964, 8, 47
1968, 23–24
1972, 32–34
1984, 49–51, 113
1988, 53–54, 56, 58
2000, 129–30
2004, 112–13, 117, 118
2008, 186, 187, 189–90
2012, 249–50
Democratic Party
black party identification with, ix–x, 8–13, 31–32, 35–36, 55
civil rights legislation and LBJ, x, 1–9, 11, 20–21, 24, 27, 28, 147–48, 327n, 329n
Clinton and Third Way, 58–59, 62–63, 84, 85, 89–90
Obama and health-care reform, 207, 213, 214, 217–24, 247, 253, 294
Obama and transformation of, 250, 311–12, 314–15
in the South, 11, 26–27, 31, 83. See also southern Democrats
flight of white southerners, x–xii, 6–8, 22, 235–36, 292–94
midterm elections of 2014, 292–95
white resentment and, 26, 27, 28–29, 36
De Priest, Oscar, 29, 108
desegregation, 2, 9–10, 21, 42, 277–78
Deutsch, Peter, 98
Dewey, Thomas, 9
Diallo, Amadou, 104, 105–6, 281
Dibble, Ann, 200
Diggs, Charles, 29
Dingell, John, 221
Dinkins, David, 64, 104, 105, 317
Dirksen, Everett, 4, 21, 327n
Dole, Elizabeth, 27
Dole, Robert, 87
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), 74–75, 233, 237, 249
Dorismond, Patrick, 104, 106, 281
Douthat, Ross, 261–62
Dowd, Maureen, 150
Dream Defenders, 269–70, 274–75
Dreams from My Father (Obama), 180
Drew, Charles, 41
DuBois, W. E. B., 41, 181, 200, 205
Dukakis, Michael, presidential election of 1988, ix–x, 51–54, 56–57
Duke, David, 66, 67
Dunbar High School, 234
Duncan, Arne, 234
Dunham, Katherine, 109
Durbin, Dick, 110, 132–33
Dyson, Michael Eric, 144, 165–66, 174, 181, 259, 282
Eagleton, Thomas, 34, 331n
early voting, 251, 254–55, 265, 266
Easter, Eric, 181
Eastland, James, 5
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta), 17, 173
Ebony (magazine), 30, 53, 109, 181
Edelman, Peter, 86
Edmund Pettus Bridge, 139, 165, 298, 303–5
Edsall, Thomas, 236
Ed Sullivan Show, The (TV show), 5
education policies, 239, 253, 257, 261
Edwards, John, 113, 141, 160
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 9–11, 225
civil rights and, 2, 3, 10
presidential election of 1952, 9
presidential election of 1956, 9–11
Elders, Jocelyn, 333n
Elle (magazine), 311
Emanuel, Rahm, 202, 203, 204, 207, 219, 249
Emerging Republican Majority, The (Phillips), 23, 83
“enterprise zones,” 74, 88
Entertainment Tonight (TV show), 107
Equal Rights Amendment, 34
Espy, Mike, 51, 58, 73, 85
Evers, Medgar, 37, 252, 255
Evers-Williams, Myrlie, 252
Faircloth, Lauch, 27
Fair Housing Act of 1968, 21, 22, 74, 296, 329n
Fallon, Jimmy, 308
Farmer, James, 3
Farrakhan, Louis, 30, 49, 86, 168
Farris, Christine King, 274
fatherhood and personal responsibility, Obama on, 179, 180–82, 256, 258–59
Fattah, Chaka, 98–99
“Fear of a Black President” (Coates), 198, 289
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 124
Federal Housing Finance Agency, 260
Feinstein, Dianne, 72, 84
felon disenfranchisement, 96–97
Ferguson, Missouri, shooting of Michael Brown in, 276–92, 301–2
Ferguson Police Department, 277, 278–79, 283–84, 287
Ferraro, Geraldine, 50, 207
Fields, Cleo, 71
Fifteenth Amendment, 3, 28, 96–97
Filner, Bob, 101
Finney, Leon, 51, 52, 53, 111–12
Fitzgerald, Peter, 112
Florida election recount of 2000, 96, 98–99
Foley, Thomas, 79
food stamps, 27, 42, 207
Ford, Gerald, 39
Ford, Harold, Jr., 78, 127
Ford, Robert, 137
Fourteenth Amendment, 3, 28
Fox News, 182, 183–84, 207, 209, 217, 221, 228–29, 230, 273–74
Foxx, Anthony, 260
Foxx, Jamie, 274
Frank, Barney, 220
Franken, Al, 213
Franklin, John Hope, 92
Fraternal Order of Police, 282
Freedom Summer, 6, 7, 40, 47
Friedan, Betty, 34
Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church (St. Louis), 288
Fruitvale Station (movie), 281
Fudge, Marcia, 166, 257, 260, 290
Fuhrman, Mark, 79
“full slate” voting, 76, 77
Fulwood, Sam, III, 67–68
Garner, Eric, 291, 295
Gary Declaration, 30–33, 41–42, 44
Gaspard, Patrick, 51, 104–5, 128–29, 199, 209, 212
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., xii, 62, 214–16
gay rights, 249
gays in the military, 74–75, 233, 237, 249
Geithner, Timothy, 214, 244
George Mason University, 80
Gephardt, Dick, 51, 58
gerrymandering, 83, 185, 212, 236, 264
Gibbs, Robert, 231, 233
Gillette Stadium, 121
Gingrich, Newt, 80, 83–84, 85, 87, 92, 229, 243, 245
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 264–65
Giuliani, Rudy, 103–7, 291
Glenn, John, 48
Goehmert, Louie, 218
Goetz, Bernard, 60
Goldman, Ron, 79
Goldwater, Barry, 6, 7, 11–14, 31
Goodman, Andrew, 6, 7
Good Morning America (TV show), 168
Gore, Albert, Jr., 58, 84
presidential election of 1988, 51, 52
presidential election of 1992, 70
presidential election of 2000, 95–101
Gore, Albert, Sr., 2
Gore, Tipper, 85
GQ (magazine), 120
Graham, Bob, 41
Graham, Ramarley, 281
Gramm, Phil, 27
Grant, Oscar, 281
Gray, Bill, 58
Gray, Freddie, 317–18, 319
Great Recession, 206–7, 226
Great Society, 14, 22, 27–28, 43
Greene, Ernest G., 57
Greensboro sit-ins, 1–2, 18
Gregory, Dick, 298
Griffith, Michael, 60
Grimes, Alison Lundergan, 293–94
Grunwald, Mandy, 68, 335n
Grunwald, Michael, 206
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, 212
Guinier, Ewart, 75
Guinier, Lani, 75–77, 231, 333n
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, 232
Gunn, Anton, 261
Gurley, Akai, 291
Gutiérrez, Luis, 71
Haiti earthquake of 2010, 232
Hall, Arsenio, 69
Hall, Tony P., 91–92, 116
Hamer, Fannie Lou, 8, 148, 193
Hampton, Fred, 45
Hampton University, 130
Hannity, Sean, 174, 183–84, 229, 230, 245, 246
Hanover, Donna, 107
Harkin, Tom, 64, 292
Harper, Gregg, 243
Harpootlian, Dick, 158
Harris, Frederick C., 240–41
Harris, Katherine, 96
Harrison, Benjamin, 208
Harris-Perry, Melissa, 238, 259
Hart, Gary, ix–x, 48, 49, 51–52
Harvard Law School, 62, 75, 76–77, 108, 111, 131
Harvard Medical School, 182
Harvard Young Republican Club, 11
Hastie, William, 41
Hastings, Alcee, 58, 71, 78, 99–100
Hatcher, Richard, 30, 44, 45, 46
Havana Club (New York), 144
Hawkins, Augustus Freeman, 29
Hawkins, Yusuf, 60
Head Start, 87–88
health-care reform, 30
Clintons and, 75, 84, 85, 87, 90
of Obama and Democrats, 207, 213, 214, 217–24, 247, 253, 294
Height, Dorothy, 225, 234
Helms, Jesse, 27, 47
Henderson, Wade, 305
Hendon, Rickey, 110
Herbert, Bob, 151–52
Herman, Alexis, 51, 57, 63, 73, 85, 333n
Hertzberg, Hendrik, 54
Higginbotham, Aloysius Leon, Jr., 2, 3
Hill, Anita, 72, 117, 169
Hill, Marc Lamont, 282, 287, 288
Hill, T. Arnold, 205
Hill, Tony, 97
Hillyer, Quin, 302
Hispanic vote, 43, 80, 125, 193, 195, 235, 250, 274, 297, 315
Hoffman, Abbie, 24
Holder, Eric, 182, 199, 208–13, 249, 273
background of, 209–10
Diallo shooting, 105
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 279, 280, 282, 285–86, 287
“nation of cowards” speech, 209, 210–12
resignation of, 295
Selma 50th Anniversary, 305
Trayvon Martin case, 245, 270
voter laws, 251–52, 266–67
Homeland Security, U.S. Department of (DHS), 124, 260, 305
Hoover, Herbert, 12
Horton, Willie, 56
House Committee on Agriculture, U.S., 232
House Committee on Rules, U.S., 5
House Committee on Ways and Means, U.S., 77, 79, 236
housing, 16, 114
Carter and election of 1976, 37–38
Fair Housing Act of 1968, 21, 22, 74, 296, 329n
financial crisis and, 213, 214
Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of (HUD), 40, 73, 85, 261
housing assistance, 27, 88
Houston Astrodome, 122–23, 124
Howard University, 89
Hoyer, Steny, 219
Huddleston, T. J., 51
Hughes, Cathy, 126, 130, 138, 178
Hughes, Langston, 41, 200
Hulse, Carl, 153
Humphrey, Hubert, 7, 23–25, 27, 34, 137
Huron Hospital, 186–87
Hurricane Katrina, 119–25
Hutchins, Markel, 163–64
Hyde Park, Chicago, 51, 72, 109, 112, 114, 201
Ice Cube, 66
Ickes, Harold, 51, 85, 104
Ifill, Gwen, 67
Ifill, Sherrilyn, 305
Illinois Project Vote, 112, 201
Illinois U.S. Senate election of 2004, 107–8, 112–18
immigration reform, 257, 262, 295
inequality, 88, 113–14, 309, 313
inner cities, 28, 86, 123
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 227, 263
Iowa
Hillary and presidential bid of 2016, 309, 312–14
presidential primary of 2008, 63, 139, 144, 146, 156
Iraq War, 107–8, 148–49, 153–54, 166, 321
Islamic State (ISIS), 280
Israel, 48, 49
Jackson, Andrew, 208
Jackson, Frank, 190
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 33–34, 38
Jackson, Jesse, x, 44–45, 130
background of, 44–45
Bill Clinton and, 57–58, 59, 63–64, 65–70, 73, 85, 88–89, 92, 93–94, 162, 205
Gary Declaration and, 30, 32, 44
Million Man March (1995), 86
Obama and, 108, 117, 141–42, 182–86, 205–6, 268
presidential primary of 1984, 45, 46–51, 55, 185–86
“Hymie” remark, 48–49
presidential primary of 1988, 51–54, 55–56, 58, 185
Selma 50th Anniversary, 299–300, 305
Sharpton and, 60, 61
voter registration drives, 45, 46, 55, 71, 142, 185–86
Jackson, Jesse, Jr., 101, 117, 131, 164, 167, 184
Jackson, Jimmie Lee, 298
Jackson, Mahalia, 60
Jackson, Richie Jean, 24, 299
Jackson, Santita, 131
Jackson, Sullivan “Sully,” 299
Jackson, Thomas, 277, 283
Jackson Lee, Sheila, 101, 155, 165–66
Jarrett, Valerie, 131, 199–202, 260
background of, 200–201
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 279, 282
health-care reform and, 207
Holder and, 212
Jackson and, 206
presidential election of 2008, 180
Trayvon Martin case, 244
Jay-Z, 121, 198
Jealous, Ben, 225–34
Jena Six, 142, 185
Jet (magazine), 2–3, 30, 53, 109, 181
Johnson, Bob, 156, 178
Johnson, Dorian, 283–84
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 71, 101
Johnson, George Ellis, Sr., 109
Johnson, Jeh, 260–61, 305
Johnson, John, 30
Johnson, Kevin, 257–58
Johnson, Lyndon B.
civil rights legislation, x, 1–9, 11, 20–21, 24, 27, 28, 147–48, 327n, 329n
death of, 35
Great Society and, 14, 22, 27–28
JFK and, 249
King’s break with, 14–16
presidential election of 1964, 8, 11–14
presidential election of 1968, 20–21
transformation of party by, 6–8, 35–36
Vietnam War and, 14–15, 27
Wright and, 172
Johnson, Ron, 283, 284
Johnson Products, 109
Johnson Robb, Lynda Bird, 274
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 35, 235–36, 253
Jones, B. Todd, 260
Jones, Don, 12
Jones, Emil, 109–10, 112, 135–36, 201
Jones, Paula, 93
Jones, Quincy, 200
Jones, Vivian Malone, 182, 210
Jones-DeWeever, Avis, 234
Joplin tornadoes of 2011, 283
Jordan, Ann, 279
Jordan, Barbara, 30, 38, 331n
Jordan, Vernon, 37–38, 58, 73, 89, 200, 279–80
Joyner, Tom, 130, 131, 153–54, 164, 177, 303
Justice Department, U.S.
Civil Rights Division, 75, 143, 212, 251–52, 266–67
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 279, 282, 285–86, 287, 301, 302
Holder’s speech at, 209, 210–12
Kassebaum, Nancy, 72
Katzenbach, Nicholas, 212
Keeping It Real (radio program), 153
Kefauver, Estes, 2, 10
Kennedy, Caroline, 163, 274
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 28, 34, 46, 73, 147, 163, 216–17
Kennedy, John F., 20, 163, 247
assassination of, x, 1
Catholicism of, 116, 172
civil rights and, 2, 3, 255
Clinton’s idolization of, 147
Johnson and, 249
presidential election of 1960, 12, 27
Kennedy, Patrick, 221–22
Kennedy, Robert, Jr., 102
Kennedy, Robert F., 1, 20, 22, 212
Kennedy, Victoria, 217, 221
Kentucky, midterm election of 2014, 293–94
Kerner Commission, 21
Kerrey, Bob, 64
Kerry, John Forbes, 34, 108, 113, 126, 194, 195
Keyes, Alan, 112
Kim, Jay, 71
King, Alveda, 234
King, Bernice, 274
King, Charlie, 142–43
King, Clennon, Jr., 39
King, Coretta Scott, 20, 37, 39, 44, 46
King, Martin Luther, III, 234, 274, 305
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
assassination of, x, 21–22, 44
in Birmingham jail, 20, 254–55
break with Johnson, 14–16
civil rights legislation and, 3, 4, 15, 21, 28, 147–48, 329n
on election of Negro president, 13, 41
establishment of holiday, 47, 331–32n
Hillary Clinton and Chicago speech of, 12–13
Hillary Clinton’s presidential primary of 2008 and legacy of, 146–48, 152, 154–55, 156–57
March on Washington, 15, 256, 274–75, 297
public opinion on, 15–16, 328–29n
Vietnam War and, 14–15, 18–19, 173
warning about partisan affairs, 8
King, Rodney, 61, 66, 100
Klein, Ezra, 286
Klein, Joe, 196
Knowles, James, 277
Koch, Ed, 106
Koch brothers, 251
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 28
labor unions, 4, 7, 42, 104, 232–33, 275, 327n
Laden, Osama bin, 237
Lafayette, Bernard, 299
Landrieu, Mary, 292
LaPierre, Wayne, 316
Latham, Weldon, 310
Lauer, Matt, 120
Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, 266
Lazio, Rick, 107
Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 253
Leadership Council on Civil Rights, 232
Leahy, Patrick, 218
Lee, Barbara, 100
Lee, Spike, 61
Legree, Simon, 247
Lemieux, Jamilah, 286–87
Lewinsky, Monica, 94
Lewis, Bertha, 91, 320
Lewis, John, 110, 274
Bill Clinton and, 59, 67–68, 73, 78, 89, 158, 303–4
civil rights movement and, 15, 73, 148
health-care reform, 219, 220–21
Obama and, 139, 163–65, 188–89
presidential primary of 2008, 139, 148, 158, 163–65, 188–89
Selma 50th Anniversary, 298, 299, 303–4, 345n
Liddy, G. Gordon, 330–31n
Like It Is (TV show), 16
Limbaugh, Rush, 218, 273–74
Lincoln, Abraham, ix, 198, 253
Liston, Sonny, 5
Little Rock Country Club, 70
Little Rock Nine, 57
Liuzzo, Viola, 298
Lockhart, Joe, 88–89
London Telegraph, 189
Lorraine Motel (Memphis), 21–22, 44
Los Angeles riots of 1992, 61, 66, 100
Los Angeles Times, 134, 142
Lott, Trent, 27, 42–43
Louima, Abner, 104
Louis, Joe, 5, 17
Love, Mia, 295
Lowery, Joseph, 139, 274
Lynch, Loretta, 305
McAuliffe, Terry, 309
McCain, John, 219
presidential election of 2008, 174, 193–96, 278
McCarthy, Eugene, 20, 23–24, 64
McCaskill, Claire, 128
McClinton, Curtis, 17
McConnell, Mitch, 206, 218, 243, 255, 292, 293–94, 295, 305
McCray, Chirlane, 322
McCulloch, Bob, 282–83, 290–91
McDonnell, Bob, 224
McDuffie, Arthur, 41, 281
McGovern, George, 24, 59
presidential election of 1972, 24, 33–34, 36, 39–40, 150
McKinney, Cynthia, 71, 101
McWhorter, John, 121
Mahatma Gandhi, 162
Malcolm X, 16, 18, 30, 133, 148
Mandela, Nelson, 43, 48, 92
Mansfield, Mike, 5
Mao Zedong, 34
Maranatha Baptist Church (Plains), 38–39
March on Washington (1963), 4, 15, 18, 60, 256, 297
fiftieth anniversary of, 274–75
Mariel Boatlift, 40
Marshall, Thurgood, 41, 72, 143
Martha’s Vineyard, 200, 276, 279–80, 287–88
Martin, Roland, 202–3, 230–31
Martin, Trayvon, xii, 241–46, 267–75, 281, 295
Medicaid, 14, 294
Medicare, 14, 27, 224
Meek, Carrie P., 71, 78, 97, 100
Meek, Kendrick, 97, 159, 160, 162, 190
Meet the Press (TV show), 155
Mehlman, Ken, 125–26
Metcalfe, Ralph, 108–9
Mexico City Olympics (1968), 19
Mezvinsky, Charlotte Clinton, 310–11
Mfume, Kweisi, 78
Miami riots of 1980, 40–41, 74
midterm elections
1986, 55
1994, 79–84, 82–83
2006, 125–29
2010, 232, 234–37
2014, 292–96
Mikulski, Barbara, 72
Mikva, Abner, 111, 112, 201
Million Man March (1995), 86
Milwaukee Black Voters League, 127
minimum wage, 30, 85, 87
Mink, Patsy, 100
Mississippi civil rights workers’ murders, 6, 7
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 6, 7, 40, 47
Missouri State Fair, 278
Missouri State Highway Patrol, 283
Mitchell, Bobby, 17
Mitchell, George, 78
Mitchell, John, 330–31n
Mondale, Walter, 21, 34
presidential election of 1976, 38, 39, 293
presidential election of 1984, ix–x, 46–51, 53, 57, 182, 185
Mook, Robby, 309, 312
Moore, Minyon, 51, 63, 135–36
Moore, Roy, 27
Morehouse College, 47, 257, 258
“More Perfect Union, A” speech (2008), 270–74
Morial, Ernest “Dutch,” 73
Morial, Marc, 73, 225–26, 234, 238–39, 252, 268
Morrison, Toni, 94
Mosby, Marilyn, 319
Moseley Braun, Carol, 72, 112, 114, 115
Moses, Bob, 298
Mother Jones (magazine), 247
motor voter laws, 64
Moyers, Bill, 172
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 101–3
MSNBC, 158, 160, 238, 241, 282, 288
MTV, 66, 70
Mudd, Roger, 34
Muhammad Ali, 5, 16–19, 148
Murdoch, Rupert, 209
Murray, Patty, 72
Muskie, Edmund, 34, 150
My Brother’s Keeper initiative, 286–87
Myers, Mike, 119, 120
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 3, 13, 15, 37, 78, 126, 127, 132, 224, 225–26, 227–28, 230–31, 232–33, 239, 253, 270, 305
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 266, 305
Nagin, Ray, 122, 124–25
Nash, Bob, 73
Nash, Diane, 148, 298
Nathan, Judith, 107
Nation, The (magazine), 52, 238
National Action Network, 60, 77–78, 142–43, 163, 239, 253
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), 21
National Black Political Convention (1972), 30–33, 130
National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, 253
National Council of La Raza, 232
National Council of Negro Women, 253
National Employment Law Project, 226
National Football League (NFL), 121
National Review (magazine), 11, 207, 302
National Rifle Association (NRA), 244, 316
National Urban League, 1, 37, 73, 225, 238–39, 253, 268
National Voter Registration Act of 1993, 77
National Women’s Political Caucus, 34
Nation of Islam, 5, 30, 49, 168
Navy SEALs, U.S., 237
NBA All-Star Game, 241
NBC News, 37, 297, 316, 320
“Negro Family, The: The Case for National Action” (“Moynihan Report”), 101–2, 181
“Negro Voter, The: Can He Elect a President?” (White), 9
Nelson, Bill, 292
Nesmith, Larry, 232
New Convenant, 85–87
New Deal, 9
New Democrats, 58, 59, 72, 78, 84, 91, 106, 249, 311–12
New Hampshire, presidential primary of 2008, 146, 148–52, 154
New Jim Crow, The (Alexander), 268
New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, 119–25
New Orleans Superdome, 119, 122
New Orleans Times-Picayune, 290–91
New Republic, The (magazine), 165
New York City, 59–61, 103–6
New York Daily News, 65
New Yorker, The (magazine), 94, 171
New York Post, 159, 208–9
New York Times, 15, 23, 53, 67, 80–81, 150, 151–52, 153, 160, 162, 163, 164, 171, 211, 231, 261–62, 302–3, 316
New York U.S. Senate election of 2000, 101–7
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.), 253
9/11 attacks (2001), 121, 237
9/12 Project, 234
Nixon, Jeremiah “Jay,” 277–78, 282, 283, 284
Nixon, Richard, x, 10–11
presidential election of 1960, 12
presidential election of 1968, 22–25
presidential election of 1972, 31, 34–35
Noble, Gil, 16
“no justice, no peace movement,” 61
North Carolina, voting laws, 265–66
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 40
N.W.A., 66
Obama, Barack
background of, 108–12, 111, 123–24
black communities’ plight and, 225–27, 239, 256–57
black critics of, 129–39, 141–42, 173–74, 176–78, 206, 237–41, 253–62, 273, 286–87, 288–89
on black fatherhood and personal responsibility, 179, 180–82, 256, 258–59
black supporters of, 137–39, 143–44, 163–66, 224–32, 259–60
black voters and, 177–81, 186, 193–94
Congressional Black Caucus and, 152–53, 203–5, 226, 234–35, 239–40, 241
Democratic Convention keynote address (2004), 112–13, 117, 118
economic recovery package, 206–7, 208–9, 213
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 279, 280–83, 285–86, 289–92, 301–2
at Harvard Law School, 62, 108, 111
health-care reform of, 207, 213, 214, 217–24, 247, 253, 261
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, 214–16
Holder and, 182, 211–12, 214
Hurricane Katrina and, 122–23
Illinois U.S. Senate election of 2004, 107–8, 112–18
Iraq War vote, 148–49, 153–54
Jackson and, 108, 117, 141–42, 182–86, 205–6, 268
Jarrett and, 199–202, 206, 260
Lewis and, 139, 163–65, 188–89
liberal voters and, 232–34
midterm elections of 2006, 127–28
midterm elections of 2010, 232, 234–37
midterm elections of 2014, 295–96
personal style of, 204–6
Philadelphia’s “A More Perfect Union” speech (2008), 270–74
“post-racial” future and, 198–99, 207
presidency of, 198–307
presidential primary of 2008, xi–xii, 129–93, 278, 304
black endorsements, 137–39, 143–44, 163–66
Brown Chapel speech, 139–40
Clyburn and, 152–53, 158
drug use, 152, 154, 156, 179–80
exploratory committee, 129
Father’s Day speech, 179, 180–82, 184
Howard University debate, 141
Iowa victory, 146–47
Philadelphia speech, 172, 174–76
primary concession speech, 146, 150–51
60 Minutes interview, 134–35
South Carolina primary, 152–54, 155, 156, 158–61
Springfield announcement, 130, 132–34, 139
swing voters, 179–80
Wright controversy, 132–33, 167–76
presidential general election of 2008, 193–96
presidential election of 2012, 241, 247–50, 252, 262
racial animosity toward, 207–9, 214, 217–20
racial ecumenism of, 110–11, 112–13, 115–17, 118, 123–24, 139
racial identity of, 134–35
racial polarization and, xii, 235–36, 261–63, 297–98, 306–7
Reverend Wright and, 132–33, 167–76
Selma 50th Anniversary, 299–303
Sharpton and, 117–18, 141, 144–45, 153–54, 182–84, 202, 225–26, 260, 268
Sherrod affair, 228–32
Smiley and, 129–32, 134, 141, 173–74, 176–78, 237–38, 273
Trayvon Martin case, 241–46, 267–75, 280
white voters and, 194–95, 262
Wilson’s “you lie” moment, 218–19
Obama, Malia, 107, 207–8
Obama, Michelle, 107, 112, 130–31, 198, 200–201, 207, 270
Obama, Sasha, 107, 207–8
Occidental College, 111
O’Connor, Carroll, 26, 28–29
Office for Civil Rights (OCR), 72
Ogletree, Charles
Bill Clinton and, 67, 76–77, 333n
Obama and, 117–18, 141, 144, 273, 286
Ohio State University, 268
O’Leary, Hazel, 73
Olsen, Clark, 299
O’Malley, Martin, 314, 321
Omnibus Crime Bill, 77–78, 83
O’Neill, Tip, 50
One Nation Working Together rally, 233
Operation Big Vote, 42
Operation Breadbasket, 30, 44–45, 60
Operation Fast and Furious, 263, 266
Operation PUSH, 45–46, 51
O’Reilly, Bill, 184, 230
Ouren, Bill, 251
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica (Boston), 217
Owens, Jesse, 109
Owens, Marcellus, 222
Palestine Liberation Organization, 49
Palin, Sarah, 195, 228, 234
Palmer, Alice, 109–10
Panetta, Leon, 249
Park Ridge Methodist Church (Chicago), 12–13
Parks, Gordon, 109
Patrick, Deval, 125, 128
Patterson, David, 209
Pelosi, Nancy, 125, 189, 219, 221, 235, 292
Penn, Mark, 152, 154, 168, 176
Perot, Ross, 70–71
Perry, Rick, 27, 266–67
Perryman, Lavonia, 51, 63
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. See welfare reform
Pfleger, Michael, 123–24
Philadelphia Inquirer, 65
Philadelphia Tribune, 257
Phillips, Kevin, 23, 25, 83
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 176
Plains Baptist Church, 38–39
Plouffe, David, 179
Podesta, John, 249
Poe, Tef, 286
police shootings, xii, 41, 61, 104, 105–6, 280–81, 285, 291, 317
Ferguson and Michael Brown, 276–92, 301–2
Politico (magazine), 154
poverty, 88, 113, 225–26
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 10, 29, 30, 110
presidential elections
1936, 8–9
1944, 9
1948, 9
1952, 9
1956, 9–11
1960, 12, 27
1964, 8, 11–14
1968, 20–26
1972, 29, 31, 32–35, 39–40
1976, 37–40, 57
1980, 42–43
1984, 45, 46–51, 185–86
1988, ix–x, 51–57
1992, 62–73
1996, 87, 90
2000, 95–101
2004, 108, 113–14
2008, 193–97. See also presidential primary of 2008
2012, 241, 247–50, 252, 262
2016. See Clinton, Hillary Rodham, presidential election of 2016
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 217
presidential primary of 2008, 129–93
Bill Clinton’s playing of race card, 159–62
Georgia primary, 163
Hillary Clinton and Dr. King’s legacy, 146–48, 152, 154–55, 156–57
Iraq War votes, 107–8, 148–49, 153–54
New Hampshire primary, 146, 149–52, 154
Obama and Wright controversy, 167–76
Ohio primary, 166
South Carolina primary, 152–54, 155, 156, 158–61, 179–80
swing voters, 179–80
“President Like My Father, A” (Kennedy), 163
Price of a Black President, The (Harris), 240–41
Princeton University, 130–31
Pritzker, Penny, 201
Public Enemy, 61, 66, 130
racial polarization, xii, 235–36, 261–63, 297–98, 306–7
racial profiling, 61, 77–78, 91–92, 216, 243, 272, 301–2
racism, 28, 31, 116, 121, 133, 217, 227–28, 234
Radio One, 126
Rainbow Coalition, 45, 63–70
Rainbow/PUSH, 45, 118
Randolph, A. Philip, 3
Rangel, Charles, 30, 103, 110, 236
Bill Clinton and, 64, 77, 78
Hillary Clinton and, 105, 143, 157, 158
Raspberry, William, 65
Reagan, Ronald
as governor of California, 38
Obama on, 158
presidency of, 43, 48, 74, 88
presidential election of 1980, x, 42–43
“welfare queen” remark, 42, 56
presidential election of 1984, x, 45, 47, 48, 51, 95
Reagan Democrats, 56, 62, 80, 248
“Reclaim the Dream” March, 234
Reconstruction, 9
Rector, Ricky Ray, 63–64
Reeb, James, 298–99
Reed, Joe, 137
Reich, Robert, 85
Reid, Harry, 125, 138, 221
Reid, Tim, 130
Republican National Convention (1972), 34–35
Republican Party
black party identification and, ix–x, 8–13, 11, 31, 83
LBJ and Great Society, 27–28
midterm election of 2010, 235
midterm elections of 1994, 79–84, 82–83
midterm elections of 2006, 125–26
midterm elections of 2010, 232, 234–37
midterm elections of 2014, 292–96
southern conservatives and, xi, xii–xiii, 27–28, 35–36, 82–83, 235–36, 292–94
Republican Revolution of 1994, 80–81, 83–84
Responsibility Gospel, 140, 180–81, 256, 258–59
Rice, Condoleezza, 27, 243
Rice, Susan, 93, 199, 209, 249
Rice, Tamir, 291
Richardson, Bill, 141
Riverside Church (New York City), 14–15
Roberts, John G., Jr., 264, 296
Robinson, Amelia Boynton, 298
Robinson, Jackie, 11, 17–19
Robinson, Marian, 208
Robinson, Spottswood, III, 2, 3
Rock, Chris, 144
Rockefeller, Jay, 292
Rockefeller, Nelson, 11, 107
Rodham, Dorothy, 312–13
Rodham, Hugh, 12
Rodney King riots of 1992, 61, 66, 100
Roe v. Wade, 169
Rogers, Desiree, 201
Rogers, Jewel Lafontant, 201
Rogers, John, Sr., 201
Rogers, John W., Jr., 201
Rolling Stone (magazine), 133, 167
Romney, Mitt, 243, 247–48, 250
Roorda, Jeff, 282
Roosevelt, Franklin, 8–9, 205
Rose, Charlie, 158
Rosenwald, Julius, 200
Rosenwald Building (Chicago), 200
Ross, Brian, 168
Rostenkowski, Dan, 79
“rough rides,” 318
Roundtree, Richard, 30
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In (TV show), 34
Run-D.M.C., 60
Rush, Bobby, 78, 108–9, 110–11, 117, 134, 243
Rush, Harold Lee, 113
Rusher, William, 11
Russell, Bill, 17
Russell, Richard, 2, 5–6
Russert, Tim, 155
Rustin, Bayard, 60, 276
Rutgers University, 66
Rwanda, Clinton’s visit to, 93
Ryan, Jack, 112
Ryan, Paul, 248
Sabato, Larry, 237
Safir, Howard, 335n
St. Louis Police Association, 282–83
St. Louis Tea Party, 228
Saltzman, Bettylu, 201
Sanders, Bernie, 314
Sanders, Hank, 304
Sanders, Rose, 304
Sanford Police Department, 242, 244, 245
San Francisco State University, 81
Santelli, Rick, 213
Santorum, Rick, 79, 243
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 55
Schroeder, Patricia, 52
Schultz, Debbie Wasserman, 219
Schwerner, Michael “Mickey,” 6, 7
Scott, Bobby, 71
Scott, David, 232
Scott, Rick, 244
Scott, Tim, 295, 298
Scott, Walter, 317
Seale, Bobby, 24, 30
Sears, Roebuck & Company, 200
segregation, 2, 5, 9–10, 21, 29, 37–38, 42, 210
Selma to Montgomery marches, 15, 44, 117, 139–40, 264
Selma 50th Anniversary (2015), 298–305, 345n
Senate elections
Illinois and Obama in 2004, 107–8, 112–18
New York and Hillary Clinton in 2000, 101–7
September 11 attacks, 121, 237
Service Employees International Union, 104
Sessions, Jeff, 298
sexism, 33
Shaheen, Bill, 154
Shakur, Tupac, 117
Sharpton, Al, 60–61
background of, 60–61
Bill Clinton and, 77–78, 82
Ferguson and Michael Brown shooting, 284–85, 288
Gary Declaration and, 33
Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate election of 2000, 104–6
Million Man March (1995), 86
Obama and, 117–18, 141, 144–45, 153–54, 182–84, 202, 225–26, 260, 268
presidential election of 2008, 130, 141, 143, 144–45, 153–54, 162, 182–84
Selma 50th Anniversary, 298, 305
Trayvon Martin case, 242, 244, 246, 267–68, 273–74
Shelby, Richard, 27, 79
Shelby County v. Holder, 263–67
Sherrod, Shirley, 228–32, 320
Shorter, Jim, 17
Shriver, Eunice Kennedy, 216–17
Shriver, Sargent, 331n
Sierra Club, 232
Simmons, Jamal, 89, 90–91
Simon, Paul, 51
Simpson, Nicole Brown, 79
Simpson, O. J., 79, 285
Sister Souljah (Lisa Williamson), 65–70, 77, 90, 105, 162
16th Street Baptist Church bombing (Birmingham), 4, 256
60 Minutes (TV show), 46–47, 134–35
Slate (magazine), 286, 289
Slater, Rodney, 73
Slaughter, Louise M., 220
slavery, 66, 91–92, 93, 94, 116, 151, 211, 224
Smiley, Tavis, 176–78
background of, 131
as critic of Obama, 131–32, 139, 173–74, 177–78, 206, 237–38, 273
Howard University debate, 141
Obama and State of the Black Union, 129–32, 134, 177
Smith, Ben, 154
Smith, Howard W., 5
Smith, Mychal Denzel, 259
Smith, Robert, 81
Smith, Tommie, 19
Social Security Act of 1935, 14
Sotomayor, Sonia, 252
Soul Train (TV show), 109
Souter, David, 96
South Africa, 43, 48, 92
South Carolina, presidential primary of 2008, 152–54, 155, 156, 158–61, 179–80
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), 30, 44, 45, 60, 139
southern Democrats, 11, 26–27, 31, 83
civil rights legislation and, 2, 4, 5–8, 21, 24
midterm elections of 2014 and, 292–95
white flight from party, x–xii, 6–8, 22, 235–36, 292–94
Southern Manifesto, 2, 10, 70
“southern strategy,” 23, 126
Spock, Benjamin, 18
Spooner, Eloise, 230
Spooner, Roger, 230
Stand Your Ground gun law, 244–45, 270, 272
START Treaty, 237
State of the Black Union, 129–32, 133–34, 177–78
Steele, Michael, 126, 184
Steinem, Gloria, 34
Stephanopoulos, George, 68
Sterling, Donald, 297–98
Stevens, J. Christopher, 263
Stevenson, Adlai, 9–10
Stokes, Carl, 17, 30, 32, 45
Stokes, Louis, 29, 190
Strickland, Ted, 187
Stroger, John, 89
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 6, 15, 40, 110
Stupak, Bart, 220
Summer Olympics (1968), 19
Summers, Larry, 203, 214
Swann, Lynn, 126
Sweet, Lynn, 123, 124
Syria, 280
tax policy, 43, 73, 84, 88, 98, 106, 221, 224
Taylor, James, 253
Taylor, Robert Robinson, 200
Taylor, Robert Rochon, 200
Tea Party, 213–14, 217, 220–21, 224, 227–29, 251
teenage pregnancy, 86
Teitelbaum, Bruce, 105
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), 86
10-2-10 Rally, 233
Tet Offensive, 14
Thomas, Clarence, 72, 96, 169, 264, 296, 333n
Thomas, Mable, 67
Thompson, Bennie, 236
Thurmond, Strom, 2, 6, 7–8, 9, 27, 43
Till, Emmett, 3, 10, 275
Time (magazine), 121, 181, 196
Today (TV show), 107, 120, 231
Tolliver, Candice, 154
Tom Joyner Morning Show, 153–54, 164, 177
“tough on crime” messaging, 56, 64–65, 77–78, 81, 89–90
Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago), 123, 132–33, 167–76
Trotter, Donne, 111
Trotter, William Monroe, 205
True the Vote, 251
Truman, Harry, 9
Truth, Sojourner, 256
Tsongas, Paul, 64, 116
Tubbs Jones, Stephanie
death and funeral of, 186–87, 190–91
Hillary Clinton and presidential primary of 2008, 154–55, 159, 160, 166–67
Tuckson, Reed V., 182
Turzai, Mike, 251
Tuskegee syphilis experiment, 91
12 Years a Slave (movie), 297
Twenty-Sixth Amendment, 34, 331n
Tyler, John, 208
Tyson, Mike, 126
Udall, Morris “Mo,” 37, 38
Uganda, Clinton’s visit to, 92–93
United Auto Workers, 232
United Church of Christ, 172
University of Alabama, 182, 210
University of Texas Longhorns, 207
Urban Enterprise Zones, 74, 88
Urban League, 239
Vietnam War, 8, 14–20, 22, 34–35, 173
black enlistees, 19–20
King and, 14–15, 18–19, 173
Muhammad Ali and, 16–19
View, The (TV show), 162
Vilsack, Tom, 229, 230, 231
Violence Against Women Act of 1994, 78
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, 77–78, 83
Virginian-Pilot, 131
Vivian, C. T., 298
Voinovich, George, 126
voter fraud, 212, 251, 336n
voter ID laws, 251–52, 253–55, 265–66
voter laws, 250–52, 263–67
voter registration, 45, 46, 77, 97, 142, 185–86, 266
voter suppression, 126–27, 251–52, 253–55, 265–66
voter turnout
1936, 8–9
1948, 42
1972, 35, 39
1980, 42, 43
1984, 39–40, 95
1988, 53, 56–57
1992, 71
1994, 80–81
2000, 95
2006, 125, 127
2008, 193–94, 195, 252
2010, 235, 236–37
2012, 248, 250, 252
2014, 292–93
2016 potential, 314–15
voting age, 34
voting rights, 3–4, 76, 77, 96–97, 305–6
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 14, 24, 29, 82, 83, 212, 296, 305–6
Shelby County v. Holder and, 263–67
Waco siege, 75
Wag the Dog (movie), 138
Wallace, George, 16, 24–25, 33, 37, 38, 83, 182, 210, 212, 255, 298
Wallace, Mike, 5, 46–47
Wall Street, 212, 321
Wall Street Journal, 76, 168, 297, 316, 320
Walters, Ron, 64, 180–81
Ware, Izola, 3
Warren, Elizabeth, 261, 312, 314
Washington, Booker T., 54, 181
Washington, Harold, 45–46, 47, 51, 72, 85, 109
Washington Post, 15, 25, 34, 48–49, 66, 67, 116, 260, 268–69, 286
Watergate scandal, 34
Waters, Maxine, 67, 100–101
Watkins, Frank, 44, 45
Watson, Diane, 187
Watt, Mel, 71, 260
Weather Underground, 34
Weaver, Warren, Jr., 23
Webb, Jim, 314
“welfare queen,” 42, 56
welfare reform, 84–88, 102
Wellesley College, 12–13, 20
Wendy’s, ix–x
West, Allen, 243
West, Cornel, 62
as campaign surrogate for Obama, 143–44
as critic of Obama, 130, 133–34, 139, 174, 206, 237–38, 273
at Obama’s inauguration, 238
West, Kanye, 119–23
Weston, Kim, 30
Westside High School (Gary, Indiana), 30
WGBH, 22
White, Michael, 58
White, Theodore H., 3–4, 9
White, Walter Francis, 205
White Citizens’ Council, 36
“white flight” of 1980s, 74, 277, 298
Whitewater controversy, 94
white working-class voters, 22, 57, 58, 84, 195, 261–62, 293, 321
WikiLeaks, 232
Wilder, Douglas, 58, 62–63, 116, 130, 258
Wilhelm, David, 68, 73, 209
Wilkins, Roger, 80
Wilkins, Roy, 3, 4
Will, George, 75
Williams, John Bell, 42–43
Williams, Robin, 279
Williams, Sid, 17
Williamson, Lisa (Sister Souljah), 65–70, 77, 90, 105, 162
Wilson, Addison Graves “Joe,” 218–19
Wilson, Darren, 283–84, 290, 301
Wilson, William Julius, 62
Wilson, Woodrow, 205
Winfrey, Oprah, 113, 139, 274
Wolfson, Howard, 106
women voters, 315
Wonder, Stevie, 47
Woodlawn Organization, 51, 111
Woolworth’s sit-ins, 1–2, 18
Wooten, John, 17
working-class white voters, 22, 57, 58, 84, 195, 261–62, 293, 321
World Boxing Association, 16
Worrill, Conrad, 134, 139
Wright, David, 159
Wright, Jeremiah, 123, 132–33, 167–76
Wright, Richard, 109
Wright Edelman, Marian, 86–87, 130, 150
Wynn, Albert, 71
Yale Law School, 75, 296
Yellin, Jessica, 158
Young, Andrew, 37, 59, 274
Clinton and, 73
Jackson and presidential primary of 1984, 44, 46, 54
presidential primary of 2008, 138–39, 158
Selma 50th Anniversary, 298, 305
Young, Coleman, 48, 52
Young, Whitney, 1, 3, 37
Young Republican National Federation, 12
youth vote, 35, 195, 315
Zimmerman, George, 242–45, 267, 272, 273, 274