The Real Hoosiers by Jack McCallum

Author:Jack McCallum [MCCALLUM, JACK]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Footnotes

1 And say hallelujah twice more! As Attucks was getting off to its great start in 1955, a Black woman named Marian Anderson, already close to fifty-eight years old, sang the role of Ulrica from Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. That was sixteen years after she was denied permission to sing in Washington by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of a whites-only policy. And it was just three weeks later, according to a piece called “Deceptive Cadence” that ran on NPR, that the first Black male took the Met stage. That was baritone Robert McFerrin, as Amonasro in Verdi’s Aida. McFerrin was the father of Bobby “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” McFerrin. I defy you to catch the video of McFerrin, the late Robin Williams, and the brilliant Bill Irwin and come away with a dry eye.

2 Shortridge alumnus Kurt Vonnegut once said, “I thought we should be the envy of the world with our public schools. And I went to such a public school. Shortridge High School produced not only me, but the head writer on I Love Lucy [Madelyn Pugh]. And, my God, we had a daily paper, we had a debating team, had a fencing team. We had a chorus, a jazz band, a serious orchestra. I wanted everybody to have such a school.”

3 In a 2019 New Yorker piece, Ian Frazier writes about a legendary debate in 1929 between Stoddard and W. E. B. Du Bois, the nation’s leading Black intellectual. Du Bois scored a TKO.

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