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add new ass't A6 for Cenl rights;
black Cabinet t Dub cabinet appointees
SMALL DINNER
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
(updated: 2/8: 5:00 p.m.)
Leon Forrest
Chairman, African-American Studies, at
Northwestern
Veronica Biggins
Togo West
Secretary of Army
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Afro-American Studies - Harvard
Regretted 1 dinner.
Bill Moyers
Regretted 3 dinners.
Richard Rorty
Philosophy Professor
formerly at Princeton
Richard Bernstein
Chairman Philosophy Dept.
New School for Social Research
Ronald Thiemann
Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Erroll B. Davis, Jr.
CEO, WPL Holdings Inc. - Madison, WI
Nicholas Lemann
Writer, The Promised Land
Stephen Carter
Yale
Barbara Jordan
Jeanne M. Ashe
Terry McMillan
Author. Regretted 1 dinner.
Faith Ringgold
Afro-American Artist does story quilts
(One quilt is in Guggenheim Museum and
another will be presented to Dorothy
Height on February 28.)
PHOTOCOPY
HRC HANDWRITING
Leon and Evelyn
He -Retired Federal Judge
Higginbotham
She- Visiting professor at Harvard
David Wilkins
Law professor at Harvard
Elliott & Shirley Hall
Head, Ford Motor Co., Washington, DC
John Mackey
California - former All Star Football.
Now successful businessman
Willie Davis
Successful businessman
Dr. /Mrs. Harold Freeman
Former President of American Cancer
Society. Very involved in inner-city
health care.
Barry Rand
Executive V.P. Xerox
Stacy Mobley
DuPont - DC Office
Kenneth Chenault
President TRS - Domestic - American
Express
Mrs. Reginald Lewis
Chairman, TLC
Lerone Bennett
Editor, Ebony Magazine
Christopher Edley, Jr.
OMB
Mary Berry
Chairman, Civil Rights Commission
Eugene Lang
"I Have A Dream" Foundation
FLOTUS list
rhythis
William Manchester
"A World Lit Only by Fire"
FLOTUS list
linner?
Jack Germond
Civil Rights reporter
Terrance Hunt
AP Chief White House Correspondent
(Caputo)
Burke Marshall
General and Mrs.
First Black General
Benjamin O. Davis
James and Sarah Brady
FLOTUS list. Regretted 1 dinner.
Nicholas Katzenbach
Denzel Washington
John Doar
Ass't. Attorney General, Civil Rights
PHOTOCOPY
HRC HANDWRITING
Claude Sitton
Reporter during Civil Rights Movement.
Suggested by Taylor Branch
Clay Carson
Stanford, doing the King papers
Chuck Hamilton
Professor, Columbia Univ. Wrote book on
Stokley Carmichael.
Ramsey Clark
Walter Massey
Provost, U of California, System -
Physicist
William Hastie
Partner in San Francisco law firm
Sylvia Williams
Director, Afro American Museum
Charles Johnson
Won Book of Year award, Author
Bernice Reagon
"Sweet Honey and The Rock"
George Wolfe
Producer, Public Theater, New York City.
Replaced Joe Papp. Directed "Jelly's
Last Jam" and "Angels in America."
Jack Greenberg
Former director, NAACP Legal Defense
Fund
Frances Pauley
Voter Education Project in 60's
Andrew Young
Dr. Elizabeth Delany
and Sarah Delany
Mayor Sharon Pratt
Kelly and James Kelly
Leslie Dunbar
Former Executive Director, Southern
Regional Council. Retured, Executive
Director Field Foundation
James Farmer
Former Director of CORE
Susan Taylor
"Essence" magazine
Jesse Hill
Atlanta
Barbara Reynolds
"USA Today,' " columnist
Suggested by Craig Smith
Mayor Bill Cambell
Atlanta, GA
Mayor Freeman Bosley,
St. Louis, MO
Jr.
Mayor Elihu M. Harris
Oakland, CA
Stanley Hill
AFSCME
Has been here for a reception, not
a dinner.
Ben Chavis
President, NAACP
Mayor Sharon Sayle Belton
Minneapolis, MN
Congressional Black Caucus Members
Senator Carol Moseley Braun Shei been have
Representative Kweisi Mfume
PHOTOCOPY
HRC HANDWRITING
MEMORANDUM
DATE:
FEBRUARY 14, 1994
TO:
THE FIRST LADY
FROM:
ANN STOCK
RE:
DINNER: BLACK HISTORY MONTH
CC:
MAGGIE WILLIAMS
Attached is the final guest list for the Black History Month
Dinner, per your changes and The President's. We've added black
cabinet members and Alexis will give us the key sub-cabinet
appointees on Tuesday.
Per your request, Duvall Patrick was added.
2/14/94
Manyie -
I put a # of people on hold (murked
with an H). We did not have
phone # , S or addresses for Them.
also, we need to space tointe
Vey admin stration Lettaff Weive
called 56 people. whe know
how to proceed. See theFet .8 Feb-8
memo FOO HRC notes. I called
Capricia 4 times the day before
They left Ful to get listt-
note \ refers D the wish dinner
be dewey from Pam.
and note 2 to Thanks History dinner.
ann
SMALL DINNER
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
(updated: 2/14; 3:00 p.m.)
Hank Aaron
Jeanne M. Ashe
Sharon Sayle Belton
Mayor of Minneapolis
Lerone Bennett
Editor, Ebony Magazine
Richard Bernstein
Chairman Philosophy Dept.
New School for Social Research
Mary Berry
Chairman, Civil Rights Commission
Veronica Biggins
Freeman Bosley, Jr.
Mayor of St. Louis
H
James and Sarah Brady
FLOTUS list. Regretted 1 dinner.
Sec. Jesse Brown
Sec. Ron Brown
Bill Cambell
Mayor of Atlanta
I
Clay Carson
Stanford, doing the King papers
I
Stephen Carter
Yale
Ben Chavis
President, NAACP
Kenneth Chenault
President TRS - Domestic - American
Express
Ramsey Clark
I
Erroll B. Davis, Jr.
CEO, WPL Holdings Inc. - Madison, WI
General and Mrs.
First Black General
Benjamin O. Davis
Willie Davis
Successful businessman
H
Dr. Elizabeth Delany
and Sarah Delany
H
John Doar
Ass't. Attorney General, Civil Rights
H
Leslie Dunbar
Former Executive Director, Southern
Regional Council. Retured, Executive
Director Field Foundation
Christopher Edley, Jr.
OMB
Sec. Mike Espy
James Farmer
Former Director of CORE
I
Leon Forrest
Chairman, African-American Studies, at
Northwestern
H
Rep. Barney Frank
Dr. and Mrs. Harold
Former President of American Cancer
Freeman
Society. Very involved in inner-city
health care.
Ernest J. Gaines
Winner of Book Critics Circle Award for
"A Lesson Before Dying"
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Afro-American Studies - Harvard
Regretted 1 dinner.
Jack Germond
Civil Rights reporter
Jack Greenberg
Former director, NAACP Legal Defense
Fund
Elliott & Shirley Hall
Head, Ford Motor Co., Washington, DC
Chuck Hamilton
Professor, Columbia Univ. Wrote book on
Stokley Carmichael.
Henry Hampton
Documentary filmmaker, "Eyes on the
Prize"
Elihu Harris
Mayor of Oakland, CA
William Hastie
Partner in San Francisco law firm
Leon and Evelyn
He -Retired Federal Judge
Higginbotham
She- Visiting professor at Harvard
Stanley Hill
AFSCME
Has been here for a reception, not
a dinner.
Jesse Hill
Atlanta
Terrance Hunt
AP Chief White House Correspondent
(Caputo)
H
Charles Johnson
Won Book of Year award, Author
H
Judge Nate Jones
6th cir., African-American judge
reaching senior status this year
Barbara Jordan
Nicholas Katzenbach
Judge Damon Keith
6th cir., African-American judge
reaching senior status this year
Sharon Pratt Kelly
Mayor of Washington, DC
and James Kelly
I
Richard Klugen
Wrote Simple Justice, history of Brown
decision
I
Nicholas Lemann
Writer, The Promised Land
John Lewis
Mrs. Reginald Lewis
Chairman, TLC
John Mackey
California - former All Star Football.
Now successful businessman
Burke Marshall
I
Walter Massey
Provost, U of California, System -
Physicist
Terry McMillan
Author. Regretted 1 dinner.
Representative Kweisi Mfume
I
Stacy Mobley
DuPont - DC Office
#
Lance Morgan
Rhythm & Blues Foundation. We're trying
to get him to sponsor a Rhythn and Blues
South Lawn concert in May - a la the
Jazz concert
Bill Moyers
Regretted 3 dinners.
Sec. Hazel O'Leary
Deval L. Patrick
New nominee for Asst. Attorney General
Frances Pauley
Voter Education Project in 60's
I
Howell Raines
He wrote My Sole has Rested, an oral
history of Civil Rights movement
H
Bernard Shaw
Barry Rand
Executive V.P. Xerox
Charles Rangel
Already attended 1 dinner
Bernice Reagon
"Sweet Honey and The Rock"
Barbara Reynolds
"USA Today," columnist
Faith Ringgold
Afro-American Artist does story quilts
(One quilt is in Guggenheim Museum and
another will be presented to Dorothy
Height on February 28.)
# Marcus Roberts
I
Richard Rorty
Philosophy Professor
formerly at Princeton
H Claude Sitton
Reporter during Civil Rights Movement.
Suggested by Taylor Branch
Susan Taylor
"Essence" magazine
H
Ronald Thiemann
Dean, Harvard Divinity School
Denzel Washington
Togo West
Secretary of Army
I
David Wilkins
Law professor at Harvard
Sylvia Williams
Director, Afro American Museum
George Wolfe
Producer, Public Theater, New York City.
Replaced Joe Papp. Directed "Jelly's
Last Jam" and "Angels in America."
H C. Vaun Woodward
Historian
Andrew Young