Index

A Bagneris, Michael, 46 Adams, Ron, 99 Baldwin, James, 70 Afro-European, 125 Barker, Blue Lu, 148 Alabama, 73 Barthelemy, Sidney, 46 Alec’s Kitchen, 58 Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 113 A Lesson Before Dying, 139 BBC, 63 Allen Street, 59 Bechet, Ron, 109 All Saints Day, 19 Bienville Street, 125 American Arts Alliance, 94 Biggers, John, 101 American Association of Birmingham, Alabama, 69-70, Museums, 94 73 American Red Cross, 50 birthday party, 106 Anglo-American, 124 black Muslims, 74 Appropriations Committee, 93 black voting efforts, 70 Aquavit, 79 block voting, 115 Army Corps of Engineers, 49 Boggs, Lindy, 91 Army Field Kitchens, 50 Boston, 64 Association of Art Museum Boston Club, 148 Directors, 94 Bourg, Gene, 157 Astoria, 125 boxers, 43 Augustine, Israel, 91 boycott, 74 Aunt Esther, 46 Boynton decision, 72 Aunt Lucy, 41 brown paper-bag test, 125 Aunt Sadie, 53 Brown vs. Board of Education of Autocrat, 124 Topeka, 68 Bullard, John, 94 B Bunch Club, 75 bad neighborhood, 87 Burnett, Claire Foster, 106

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Burns, Leonard, 74 on education, 143-44 Bush vs. Orleans Parish School on family, 149-51 Board, 68 on politics, 142-43 Butler, David, 97 on raising children, Butter Cake recipe, 22 151-52 on social justice, 145-48 C religion, 79-89 Cajun, 157 Sweetheart of Calder, Alexander, 91 New Orleans, 157 Canal Street, 152 white dresses, 59 Cannon, Lenora, 59 WPA, 79 Cape Canaveral, 139 Chase II, Edgar “Dooky,” 27, Carnival clubs, 74 31-35, 67 Carnival krewe, 74 Chase III, Edgar “Dooky,” 35, Caruso’s Grocery, 113 52, 80, 140 Castle, Oretha, 70 Chase Kamata, Leah, 38, 47, Caste, Vergie, 67 132, 140 Catlett, Elizabeth, 63, 91, 108, chaurice, 18, 128 111 Chef’s Charity for Children, cayoudles, 123 159 Ce, 56 Chicken Creole recipe, 62 Channel Six, 58, 59 Chinese, 60 Charbonnet, Bernard, 128 Christmas, 22 Charles, Ray, 65 City Council of New Orleans, Chase, Leah Lange 16-17, 68 24-25, 35 Civil Rights movement, 34, art patron, 91-114 67-69, 70, 72, 115, 140, 146 Chase family tree, 165 Clinton, Bill, 43, 52, 154 childhood, 15-24 Clinton-Gore supporters, 52 dolls, 23 Coffee Pot, 45 grandchildren, 131-37, Coliseum Arena, 44 151-52 Colonial Restaurant, 25, 45 Janice (sister), 86 Comus, 117 kites, 23 Confrontation on the Bridge at Miss Angel, 32 Selma, Alabama, 102 motherhood, 35-39 Connor, Sheriff “Bull,” 69 on being a woman, 153-54 Contemporary Arts Center, 92 on community Cook, Celestine, 91-92, 104, development, 144-45 110, 115 Index —— 185

Cordon Bleu, 155 E CORE, 70 “Early in the Morning Blues,” Corpus Christi Church, 124 65 Corpus Christi Elementary Edwards, Mel, 92 School, 35 Elder Hostel Study-Tour Covington, 146 Group, 64 Creole, 25, 27, 56, 61, 63-64, Elie, Lolis, 70 123-24, 126-28, 130 Elle, 105 Creole cuisine, 60, 127, 159 England, 63 Creole de couleur, 32, 60, Epps, Dr. 46 123-25 Ethiopia, 79 Creole Feast, 127 Eugene, 53 Creole food, 63, 157 Eureka Jazz Marching Band, Creole gumbo, 133 75 Creoles, 67, 124, 126, 128 European-African, 124 Cribs, The, 105 Evers, Medgar, 69 crioulo, 123 F D family prayer, 86 Davis, Rev. A. L., 70 Farmer, James, 70 Delpit, Luke, 37 Fauria Awning Business, 125 Dent, Bobbie, 92 Fauria, Beansy, 124 Dombrowski, James, 70 Ferdinand, 49 Dooky Chase Orchestra, 27 Fire Next Time, The, 70 Pride of New Orleans, Fisherman, The, 99 27, 32 Fletcher, Gilbert, 91, 105, 113 Dooky Chase Pomo Softball Flint-Goodridge, 83 Team, 34, 37 Folse, John D., 127, 157 Dooky Chase Restaurant, 17, Freedom Riders, 72, 141 27, 54, 65, 67-68, 70, 72, 75, Freedom Rides, 72 77, 91-92, 94, 115, 128, 157, free people of color, 67, 124 159 Free Southern Theater, 91 Downtown, 126 French Culinary Institute, 155 Driskell, David, 92 French Quarter, 25, 27, 45, 124 Dryades Street, 70 Frontier Club, 34, 115-16 duck dinners, 117-18, 120 Dumaine Street, 31, 92 G Durr, Virginia, 70 Gaines, Ernest, 139 Dutch, 64 Gallier Hall, 118 186 —— LEAH CHASE: Listen, I Say Like This

Galveston, Texas, 91 Italy, 63 Gandy, Mr., 17 ITV, 63 Gehman, Mary, 124 I’ve Known Rivers, 56 Germany, 63 Gibson, Josh, 43 J Gifford, Alec, 58 Jack, Beau, 44 Glade, Luba, 97 Jackson, Mississippi, 73 Glenn, John, 43, 139 Jackson University, 78 Godchaux Sugar Refinery, 70 Jacques, Father Michael, 51, 85, Gold Room, 52, 54, 56, 64, 93 140 Gore, Tipper, 148 Japan, 63 Granger, Lester, 68 Jazz and Heritage Festival, 34 Greek Hellenic Center, 118 Jean, Nelson, 16 Greyhound, 72 Jefferson, Andrea, 140 grillades, 51 Jefferson, Congressman Grossman, Loyd, 63 William, 51, 140 gumbo, 18 Joan of Arc, 16 Gumbo des Herbes, 128 John XXIII, Pope, 146 recipe, 129 Jones, Stella, 94, 103

H K Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, 123 Keller, Rosa Freeman, 70, 73 Haspel Brothers, 25 Kelso, Iris, 118 Haydel, Emily Chase, 30, 35, Kennedy, John, Jr., 149 60, 80, 88, 118, 120 Kennedy, Rose, 80, 149 Haydel, Nathan, 80 Kevorkian, 149 Highlander Folk School, 70 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 70, Hill, Angela, 65, 80 146 Holy Thursday, 128 Korean War, 27, 32 Hudson, Bill, 104 Kraft Foods, 123 Hurricane Betsy, 49 krewe, 75 Hutchinson, Charlie, 116 L I labor activities, 70 I Dream A World Exhibition, Lafitte’s Landing Restaurant, 47, 154 127 Integrated bus rides, 72 Lakefront Airport, 155 International Association of Lake Pontchartrain, 15-16 Cardiologists, 64 Landrieu, Moon, 70 Index —— 187

Lange, Charles Robert, 16-17, Morial, Sybil, 116 19, 21-23 Morrison, Mayor DeLesseps Lange, Hortensia, 15, 17, 19, 22 “Chep,” 74-75 Lawrence, Jacob, 63, 92, 102 Municipal Auditorium, 34, 118 laws in Louisiana, 68 Lewinsky, Monica, 154 N Lewis, John, 102 NAACP, 34, 68, 69, 115, 122 Liberty Bank, 92 Defense Fund, 70 Like This, 100 Legal Fund, 74 LINKS, 83 National Endowment for the Lombard, Rudy, 70, 127, 141 Arts, 93 Louisiana League of Good National Urban League, 69 Government, 75, 77 Neiman Marcus, 91 Louisiana State University, 93, neutral ground, 38, 128 104 New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana Weekly, 32, 75 56, 92, 94 Louis, Joe, 44 New Orleans Public School Loving Cup Award, 18 Board, 92 Loving, Rose, 92 New Orleans Recreation Luke, Leontine Goins, 70 Department, 37 New Orleans Times-Picayune, 18 M New Orleans Tribune, 157 Madisonville, 15-16, 18, 25, 145 Nexus Gallery, 92 magnet schools, 143 Mardi Gras, 74, 117, 148 O blackout, 75 Ochsner, 59 Marsalis, Wynton, 100 Ole Miss, 56 Marshall, Thurgood, 70 Ordinance 828 M.C.S., 68 Master Chef, 63 Original Illinois Club, 54, 124 Mintz, Donald, 46-47, 83, 118, Orpheum Theater, 125 122, 142 Ortique, Revius O., 70 Miss Emily, 27, 30, 159 Ortique, Miriam, 83 Mississippi River, 49 Montgomery, Alabama, 74 P Montgomery, Bob, 44 Panama straw, 108 Morial, Ernest “Dutch,” 34, Parks, Rosa, 70 46-47, 56, 60, 67, 70, 75, 77, Patton, Gen. George Smith, Jr., 92, 97, 115-22, 145 43, 50 Morial, Marc, 47, 83, 142 Payton, Scott and Martin, 92 188 —— LEAH CHASE: Listen, I Say Like This

Pea-Put, 23 Sister Josephine, 24 Pelican Club, 125 Sister Jules, 24 Perón, Eva, 43, 148 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Phelps, Ashton, 18 (Birmingham, Alabama), 70 pipe bomb, 71 Smith, Jerome, 70, 72, 77 Pledge of Allegiance, 145 Smock, Sue Jane, 98 Plessy, Homer, 67 soul food, 63 po’ boys, 27, 51, 63, 83 Southern Christian Leadership police union strike, 116 Conference, 54, 70 South Rampart Street, 125 R St. Augustine, 124 Rampart Street, 126 St. Catherine’s Church, 16 rap music, 148 Steamer Madisonville, 16 Rashid (of the RNA), 73 Stella Jones Gallery, 94 Rebel flags, 56 Sterns, the,73 Reese, Stella, 30, 35, 80-83, 139, St. Francis Xavier Catholic 144 Church, 16-17 Rex, 117, 148 St. Francis Xavier Catholic Rhodes Scholar, 154 School, 17 RNA, 73 Stillman, Col. Richard, 50 Robinson, Cleo, 59, 61, 85, 94, St. Joseph’s Day, 60 118, 120, 155 St. Leo the Great, 124 Rolling Stones, 87 St. Louis Cardinals, 43 Roosevelt, Pres. Franklin, 69, St. Louis Cathedral, 124 148 St. Mary’s Academy, 25, 41-42, rotary clubs, 60 44, 124, 126, 145 “Run Dutch Run,” 118 St. Patrick’s Day, 60 Russian entrepreneurs, 60-62 St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, 50-51, 85 S strawberry wine, 21-23 Samuelsson, Marcus, 79 Strickland, 110 Saunders, Raymond, 92 Sugar Bowl, 56 Sauveur, Bessie, 25, 45 Superdome, 87 Schomburg Collection, 92 Scott, John, 92, 97 T Sea, Sky and Land series, 104 takeout dinners, 52, 83 second line, 74 Taylor Energy, 140 separate but equal, 68 Taylor, Pat, 140 shotgun house, 46 Taylor Plan, 177 Index —— 189

Tchefuncte River, 15-16 Victorian Room, 54, 60-61, 93 teamsters, 117 voter-registration drive, 75 Thanksgiving Day, 21 voting practices, 115 “That’s the Stuff You Gotta Watch,” 32 W Thomas, Richard, 100 Washington, D.C., 72 Through the Keyhole, 63 WDSU, 58 tin-tins, 56 Webb, Clifton, 92-93, 112 Trailways, 72 West End, 16 Treme, 51, 125 Wild Ducks and Turnips Truman, 69 recipe, 121F Tuskegee University, 91 Wilder, Gov. Lawrence Tyson, Cicely, 139 Douglas122 Wok and Soul Day, 60 U World Exposition of 1984, 54, United Clubs, Inc., 74 56, 94, 144 United States House of World’s Fair, 144-45 Representatives, 93 World War II, 50 Upper Room, 101 Upstairs Room, 54, 115-16 X Uptown, 126 Xavier Prep, 42, 124 Uptown whites, 70 Urban League, 34 Y Ursuline, 143 Yakimi, 60

V Z Vatican II, 146 Zulu, 74-75 Vaucresson, 128