{"id":46453,"date":"2016-04-03T01:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T01:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46453"},"modified":"2016-12-11T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:18:47","slug":"46453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46453","title":{"rendered":"The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Atlantic Monthly Press<\/a>
\nFebruary 2016
\n336 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8<\/p>\n

Gail Lumet Buckley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history<\/em><\/p>\n

In The Black Calhouns<\/em>, Gail Lumet Buckley<\/a>\u2014daughter of actress Lena Horne<\/a>\u2014delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War<\/a> to Civil Rights<\/a>. Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave<\/a> who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in postwar Atlanta<\/a>, Buckley follows her family\u2019s two branches: one that stayed in the South<\/a>, and the other that settled in Brooklyn<\/a>. Through the lens of her relatives\u2019 momentous lives, Buckley examines major events throughout American history. From Atlanta during Reconstruction<\/a> and the rise of Jim Crow<\/a>, from the two World Wars <\/a>to New York City<\/a> during the Harlem Renaissance<\/a> and then the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>, this ambitious, brilliant family witnessed and participated in the most crucial events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining personal and national history, The Black Calhouns<\/em> is a vibrant portrait of six generations during dynamic times of struggle and triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Atlantic Monthly Press February 2016 336 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8021-2454-8 Gail Lumet Buckley Gail Lumet Buckley tells the story of her dynamic family during the most crucial century in African American history In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley\u2014daughter of actress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[23423,23425,23422,8201,23424],"class_list":["post-46453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-atlantic-monthly-press","tag-gail-buckley","tag-gail-lumet-buckley","tag-lena-horne","tag-moses-calhoun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50549,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions\/50549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}