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
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“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
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