Rockwell, Norman, 70
Rodgers, Richard, 24–25
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 151
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, xxiii, 56–57, 151–52, 152–53
Roosevelt, Theodore, 9, 26
Rubin, Robert, 129
Rugh, Jacob, 155
Sadler, Georgia, 110–11
segregation. See discrimination
sexual harassment, 157
Shelley v. Kraemer, 59, 64, 82
Sheryl, 91–92
Simon, David, 113
Simon, Nina, 133
slavery, xiii–xiv, 3–5, 41–42, 141, 145. See also Emancipation
Smith, Robert, 42
Spielberg, Stephen, 74
states’ rights, 71, 72
Stiglitz, Joseph, 140
street culture, 90–94
Stumpf, John G., 128
suburbanization, xvii, 57, 61, 63–64, 70–71
suffrage movement, 48–50
Summers, Lawrence, 129
Supreme Court: Bradwell v. Illinois, 48; Brown v. Board of Education, 31, 66, 71; Hansberry v. Lee, xv–xvi, 58–61; Milliken v. Bradley, 70–71, 153; Plessy v. Ferguson, 13, 26–27; Reitman v. Mulkey, 83; sexual harassment cases in, 157; Shelley v. Kraemer, 59, 64, 82
tax policy, 162–63
Taylor, Charley, 7–8
Taylor, Juanita, 108–9
Terrell, Mary Church, 51–52
Thomas, Clarence, xxii, 157
Truman, Harry, 63
Tuskegee Institute, 45–46
Vaughan, Suzanne, 56
violence: civil rights movement and, xvi, 69–70; after Emancipation, 7, 8; family and, 10, 11, 13–20, 86–88, 90–94; home and, 78–79, 86–88, 90–94; migration and, 13, 20–23, 25–26, 34–35, 36, 44; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and, 15; street culture and, 90–94; suburbanization and, xvii
Walker, Alice, 73–74
Walker, C. J., 108
Walker-Thomas Furniture Company, 101–5
Walsh, Adam, 87
Warren, Elizabeth, 101
Washington, Booker T., xiv, 44–47, 50, 53, 60, 141–42
welfare programs, 71, 72
Wells, Ida B., 49, 52
Wells Fargo Bank, xix, xx, 96, 113–15, 118–24, 126, 127–32
White House, xxii, xxiii–xxiv, 148–49
Wideman, John Edgar, 42, 164–65
Williams, Ora Lee, 101–5, 107, 111
Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company, 101–5
Willis, Hiram F., 7
Wilson, August, 36
Wilson, Margaret, 75
Wilson, William Julius, 90, 160
The Wire, 113
women’s rights movement, xiv, 40–41, 47–54, 141–42. See also civil rights movement
work: civil rights movement and, 68–69; discrimination and, 64, 156–57; education and, 50, 52; equality and, 46–47, 49, 50–54, 68–69, 141; gender and, 50–54, 63, 64, 68–69, 78, 80, 107–13, 141, 156–57, 160, 161; home and, xiv, 46–47, 50–54, 107–13, 141; home ownership and, 80, 86, 107–13, 161–62; housing crisis and, 107–13; mortgage lending and, 107–13; race and, 46–47, 49, 50–54, 107–13; women’s rights movement and, 49, 50–54
Wright, Jeremiah, 146
Wyatt, Leonard, 79–81, 84–85
Wyatt, Marla, 78–81, 84–94
Wyatt, Sam, 78–79, 86–87, 88–94
Wyly, Elvin, 100, 168
Young, Iola B., 2, 30–33, 164, 166
Young, Joseph, 15, 21
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), 49
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Reimagining equality : stories of gender, race, and finding home / Anita Hill.
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1. African Americans—Social conditions. 2. African American women—Social conditions. 3. African Americans—Housing. 4. Home ownership—United States. 5. Equality—United States. 6. Nationalism—United States. I. Title.
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