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
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