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Our Kind of People

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by Lawrence Otis Graham


  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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br />   Thomas, Clarence

  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)

  ALSO BY LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM

  Member of the Club

  Proversity: Getting Past Face Value

  The Best Companies for Minorities

  CREDITS

  Cover design © 1999 by Marc Cohen

  Cover photographs courtesy of Phyllis Stevenson, and Herndon Home

  COPYRIGHT

  OUR KIND OF PEOPLE. Copyright © 1999, 2000 by Lawrence Otis Graham. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub © Edition JUNE 2006 ISBN: 9780061870811

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

  Graham, Lawrence.

  Our kind of people: inside America’s Black upper class / Lawrence Otis Graham.—1st ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 0-06-018352-7

  ISBN 0-06-098438-4 (pbk.)

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