The Black history of the White House

Author

Clarence Lusane

Call Number

• 975.3 L968 (CEN)

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Publication Information

San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2011.

Physical Description

575 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents

• Introduction. Black people, white houses
• A Declaration of Independence and racism : founding documents, founding fathers, and the preservation of slavery
• Prelude : Oney's White House story
• The president's house in the home of the abolitionist movement
• Prelude : Hercules' White House story
• A White House built on and with slavery
• Prelude : Peter's White House story
• Closed doors : the White House and presidents of slavery
• Prelude : Paul Jennings's White House story
• The White House goes to war : rebellion, reconstruction and retrenchment
• Prelude : Elizabeth Keckly's White House story
• James Crow's White House
• Prelude : Booker T. Washington's White House story
• The 1960s and the crisis of power : the White House and Black mobilization
• Prelude : Abraham Bolden's White House story
• Black challenges to the White House : the campaigns to make the White House Black
• Prelude : Marcus Garvey's White House story
• The latest political milestone : the Obamas in the White House
• Prelude : Michelle Obama's White House story.