The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda (59 page)

“I’ve just lost”:
MLSF,
445.

Henry’s will:
Stars and Stripes,
8/22/1982. HF’s Last Will and Testament is available at
http://livingtrustnetwork.com/estate-planning-center/last-will-and-testament/wills-of-the-rich-and-famous/last-will-and-testament-of-henry-fonda.html
.

eyes will be donated:
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise,
8/13/1982.

“promptly cremated”: HF’s Last Will and Testament.

“Walt Whitman has”: Walt Whitman,
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose,
ed. Justin Kaplan (New York: Library of America, 1982), 1344.

solo show about Walt Whitman: Sweeney, 37.

Past and present
: This and subsequent lines from the preface to
Leaves of Grass
in
Walt Whitman, Poetry and Prose
, 13.

12. OMAHA, 1919

Starting in the afternoon:
Omaha’s Riot in Story and Picture
(available at
http://historicomaha.com/riot.htm
).

“spread like wild fire”: John Hope Franklin,
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes,
2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1956), 464–65.

John Hartfield: Robert Whitaker,
On the Laps of Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation
(New York: Random House, 2008), 47.

lynching victims had served in the war: ibid., 47, 54.

its black population: Michael L. Lawson, “Omaha, A City of Ferment: Summer of 1919,”
Nebraska History
(Fall 1977): 415.

“It was so horrifying”:
PB,
104.

Agnes Loebeck:
Omaha Daily Bee,
9/27/1919.

Whispers went round: “The Real Causes of Two Race Riots,”
The Crisis
, December 1919, 56.

hobbled by rheumatism: Lawrence Harold Larsen,
Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 219.

“lack of effective civic leadership”: Gunther, 255.

“perhaps the most lawless”: “The Real Causes of Two Race Riots,” 56.

Tom Dennison, James Dahlman, Edward Rosewater: Orville D. Menard, “Tom Dennison, the
Omaha Bee,
and the 1919 Omaha Race Riot,”
Nebraska History
68 (1987): 153; Federal Writers’ Project, 230; Bristow, 93.

Smith also embraced the NAACP: Mark Robert Schneider,
“We Return Fighting”: The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002), 33.

white laborers angry at black migrants: ibid.

twenty-one separate allegations: See Nicolas Swiercek, “Stoking a White Backlash: Race, Violence, and Yellow Journalism in Omaha, 1919,” paper presented at the Third Annual James A. Rawley Conference in the Humanities, 4/12/2008 (available at
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/historyrawleyconference/31/
).

racial attacks:
Omaha Daily Bee,
7/30/1919, 7/12/1919, and 6/27/1919.

“retaliation for recent attacks”:
Omaha Daily Bee,
7/22/1919.

“the good colored people”:
Omaha Daily Bee,
3/18/1919.

a school in South Omaha:
Omaha’s Riot in Story and Picture.

a young man was seen: Menard, 159.

“The crowd surged”:
Omaha’s Riot in Story and Picture
.

“I am innocent”: Menard, 159.

castrated as well: Larsen, 222.

“a certain Omaha newspaper”: Menard, 161.

“premeditated and planned”: ibid., 164.

“‘old criminal gang’”: ibid, 162.

120 indictments: Stephen L. Wilburn, “The Omaha Riot of 1919,”
The Nebraska Lawyer
(December 1999/January 2000): 59.

two thousand blacks fled: Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton,
Encyclopedia of American Race Riots
(Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2007), 488.

KKK was active: Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, and John R. Wunder,
Nebraska Moments
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 199.

Norman Parkinson’s BBC chat show: The broadcast is included on the Criterion Collection DVD of
Young Mr. Lincoln.

George Smith:
Lincoln Evening News,
10/10/1891;
New York Times,
10/20/1891.

EPILOGUE

“Henry Fonda”: United States Postal Service, Stamp News Release No. 05-025, 5/20/2005 (available at
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/henry-fonda-joins-us-postal-service-legends-of-hollywood-stamp-series-54483847.html
.

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