The black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family / Gail Lumet Buckley.
Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War to civil rights. Beginning with her great-grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, Buckley follows her family's two branches: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in Brooklyn. Their paths intersected with many prominent figures including Frederick Douglas, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Langston Hughes. Through the lens of her relatives' momentous lives, Buckley examines major events throughout American history. From Atlanta during Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, from world wars to the civil rights movement, this ambitious, brilliant family participated in the most crucial turning points of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.--Inside front flap
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- ISBN: 9780802124548
- ISBN: 0802124542
- Physical Description: viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2016]
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- General Note:
- Genealogical table on lining papers.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-328) and index.
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