Our Kind of People
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Primm, Beny
Prince Hall Masons
Princeton University
graduates of
sororities/fraternities and
Procope, Ernesta Forster
Procope, John
Proctor, Henry H.
Pulitzer Prize
Qualls, Douglas
Qualls, Sam
Radcliffe College
Rainbow Yacht Club
Rainey, Joseph
Raleigh, North Carolina
Ramblers
Randall, Alice
Rangel, Alma
Rangel, Charles
Rashad, Phylicia
Rayford, Linwood
Read, Florence Matilda
Reagan, Ronald
Redd, Orial Banks
Redhead, Chester
Redhead, Gladys Scott
Redhead, Raymond
Reed, Dorothy
Reeves, Alexis Scott
Reeves, Waymond
Reid, Dora Miller
Reid, Mattie Ross
Reveille Club
Revels, Hiram
Reynolds, Charles
Rhodes Scholars
Rhone, Marie Christmas
Rice, Linda Johnson
Rice, Norman
Richard, Dominique
Richardson, Bill
Richardson, Franklyn
Richardson, Inez
Ritz-Carlton Hotel (Atlanta)
Rivers, Frederick
Rivers, Margaret Mayfield
Roberts, Eugene
Roberts, Roy
Roberts, Ruth Logan
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, A’Lelia Walker
Robinson, Arthur
Robinson, Herman
Robinson, Jack
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Jacqueline
Robinson, Leslie Hosey
Robinson, Rachel
Robinson, Remus
Robinson, Spottswood
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller, Nelson
Rogers, John
Rogers, Wilbur
Rogues
Rolle, Esther
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Ross, Diana
Roulhac, Christopher
Roulhac, Nellie Gordon
Rowan, Carl
Roxborough, John
Royal Coterie of Snakes
Royalites
Royster, Don
Rucker, Henry
Russell, Harvey C.
Russell, Herman
Russell, Jacqueline Denison
Russell, Otelia Hackney
Russell-McCloud, Patricia
Russell Sage Foundation
Sadler, Grace
Sag Harbor, Long Island
Azurest
Chatfield’s Hill
Hillcrest Terrace
Ninevah
Sag Harbor Hills
St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church (Chicago)
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis Country Day
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.)
St. Mark’s (Charleston)
St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (Detroit)
St. Paul’s School (New Hampshire)
St. Paul the Redeemer (Chicago)
St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal Church (Harlem)
St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Philadelphia)
Sampson, Thomas
Sanford and Son
San Francisco State University
Saturday Night Live
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah Country Day School
Savoy, Rodney
Sawyer, Chew
Sawyer, Helen
Schmoke, Kurt
Schuster, Corinne
Schuster, Gail Campbell Busby
Scott, Cornelius Adolphus
Scott, Jacqueline Parker
Scott, Portia
Scott, Sarah Strickland
Scott, William A., II
Scott, William A., Sr.
Seattle, Washington
Second Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.)
Second Congregational Church (Memphis)
Sengstacke, John
Shabazz, Betty
Shabazz, Ilyasah
Shack, Chrystine
sharp features
Shaw University
Shearer, Charles
Shepherd, Cybill
Short, Bobby
Shreeves, Eunice
Shropshire, Jacqulyn
Shropshire, Mirian Chivers
Shropshire, Thomas
Shropshire, William
Sidwell Friends School
Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Pi Phi, see Boulé
Sikes, Janice White
Simmons, Ruth Scott
Simms, Margaret
Sircus, Joseph
Sisters of Ethos
skin color
Slater, Thomas
slavery
Sloan, Maceo
Smalls, Robert
Smart Set
see also names of specific cities
Smiley, Charles
Smith, Barbara
Smith, Clarence
Smith, Hilda
Smith, Jack
Smith College
Smith-Talley, Beatrice Moore
Snakes, Royal Coterie of
Snell, Joseph
Solvent Savings Bank and Trust Company
Somerville, John
Somerville, Robert
sororities
see also AKAs; Deltas; Zetas
Soul Train
Southeast Missouri State University
Southern University
Sowell, Myzell
Sowell, Robin Hamilton
Speight, Jewel
Speight, W. O.
Spellman, Frank
Spelman College
graduates of
Morehouse College and
organization and history of
Spence School
Spraggins, Alethia L.
Spraggins, Alice
Spraggins, Tinsley Lee
Stanford, Lillian
Stanford Medical School
Stevenson, Adlai
Stevenson, Frank
Stevenson, Phyllis Murphy
Stewart, Donald
Stewart, Isabel
Stokes, Louis
Stotts, Rita
Stradford, Francis
Stratton, Myrtle Manigault
Stubbs, Douglas
Stubbs, Frederick Douglas
Stubbs, Patsy
Studio Museum of Harlem
Sullivan, Ginger
Sullivan, Louis
Sullivan, Shanta
summer camps
Supreme Life Insurance Company
Sutton, Percy
Swails, John Henson
Swan Ball (Nashville)
Swarthmore College
Sweatt, Herman
Sweet, William H.
Swygert, H. Patrick
Sylvester, Malcolm
Syphax, Charles
Syphax, Evelyn Reid
Syphax, William
Syphax-Young, Carolyn
Taft, William Howard
Talladega College
Tarnower, Herman
Tarter, Diane
Taylor, Alrutheus
Taylor, Billy
Taylor, Edward
Taylor, Hobart
Taylor, Marion
Taylor, Robert
Taylor, Stewart
Taylor, Susan
Taylor, Yvonne
television programs
Tennessee State University
Terrell, Mary Church
Terrell, Robert
Terry, Angela Owen
Thacker, Floyd
Thomas, Albert
Thomas, Alf E., Jr.
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Thomas, Franklin
Thomas, Gertrude
Thomas, Marion Turner Stubbs
Thompson, William
Thorne, Audrey
Thorne, Duncan
Thorne, Weston
Thornell, Carolyn
Thornell, Paul
Thornell, Richard
Thornton, Nellie Arzelia
Tildon, Hortense
Tildon, Toussaint
Tony Brown Show
Tougaloo College
Towns, George
Travis, Dempsey
Trent, Toni
Tri-State Bank
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Truth, Sojourner
Tsongas, Paul
Tucker, Herbert
Tucker, Mary
Turner, Alberta Banner
Turner, Benjamin
Turner, Jesse
Turner, John P.
Tuskegee, Alabama
Tuskegee Institute (University)
Tuskegee Veterans Administration Hospital
Tuxedo Ball (Washington, D.C.)
Twin Oaks Inn (Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts)
Ueberroth, Peter
Underground Railroad
Union Protective Life Insurance Company
United Negro College Fund
Universal Life Insurance
University of California
at Berkeley
at Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Sarasota
University of Texas
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Up the Hill (Jack and Jill yearbook)
Urban League
black upper class contributions to
Camp Atwater and
Vanderbilt Law School
Vashon, Frances
Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company
Virginia State University
Virginia Union University
ViVants
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York City)
Walker, A. Maceo
Walker, Alice
Walker, Anne
Walker, Madam C. J.
Walker, Harriet Ish
Walker, J. E.
Walker, Lily Patricia
Walker, Phyllis
Walker, Valaida Smith
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Wall, Lillian
Walter, Marianne Savare
Walter, Ronald
Walters, Barbara
Wanton, Eva
Ward, Felker
Wareham, Helene
Warwick, Dionne
Washington, Alice Holmes
Washington, Benetta Bullock
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Dinah
Washington, George
Washington, Harold
Washington, John
Washington, Martha Custis
Washington, Walter
Washington, D.C.
Bachelor-Benedicts
Boulé chapter
churches in
debutante cotillions
Dunbar High School
Girl Friends chapter
Jack and Jill chapter
Links chapter
Tuxedo Ball
see also Howard University
Watkins, Dorothy
Watkins, Joe
Watkins, LeRoy
Watkins, Sam
Watkins, Theresa
Watts, Rolanda
Wayne State University
Weaver, Robert C.
Webb, Alicia Lanauze
Webb, Hildred
Webb, Kimberly
Wellesley College
Wells, Ida B.
Wells, Josiah
Wendell Phillips High School (Chicago)
West, Cornel
West, Dorothy
West, Togo
Westchester Clubmen
Westminster Schools (Connecticut)
Weston, Miriam
Weston, Moran
Westover School
Wharton, Clifton
White, Horace
White, John
White, Liz
White, Ruth
White, Stanford
White, Walter
Whitehead, Arch
Whiteman, Herbert
Whitfield, Al
Wilder, L. Douglas
Wiley, Benaree Pratt
Wiley, Fletcher
Wilkins, Roy
Williams, Auldlyn Higgins
Williams, Barbara Evans
Williams, Billy Dee
Williams, Daniel
Williams, E. Thomas, Jr. (E. T.)
Williams, Ernest “Chico”
Williams, Gene
Williams, Karen Hastie
Williams, Liang
Williams, Margaret Calhoun
Williams, Steve
Williams, Thomas
Williams, Vanessa
Williams, Wesley
Williams Club (New York City)
Williams College
Wilson, Cynthia
Wilson, Sonny
Wiltz, Teresa
Wiltz, Yvonne Jackson
Wimberly, Frank
Winfrey, Oprah
Woods, Gaynelle Spaulding
Woodson, Carter G.
World Conference on Women
Wright, Barbara
Wright, Dorothy Bell
Wright, Emanuel Crogman
Wright, Gwynne
Wright, Jane
Wright, Louis T.
Wright, Myra
Xavier Prep (New Orleans)
Xavier University
Yale Club (New York City)
Yale University
Law School
Medical School
Yancey, Asa G., Sr.
Yancey, Marge Dunbar
Yates, Clayton, Sr.
Yates, Ella Gaines
Yates, Lorimer
Yet with a Steady Beat (Lewis)
Young, Andrew
Young, Coleman
Young, Harold
Young, Walter
Young, Whitney
Zetas (Zeta Phi Beta)
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CREDITS
Cover design © 1999 by Marc Cohen
Cover photographs courtesy of Phyllis Stevenson, and Herndon Home
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Our kind of people: inside America’s Black upper class / Lawrence Otis Graham.—1st ed.
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