![]() … He was in the White House the day that the voting rights activist, Medgar Evers, was murdered in the driveway of his Jackson, Miss., home. Eugene Allen was in the White House on the day that the high school students in Little Rock, Ark., were pelted with rocks - the black students that tried to integrate Little Rock Central High School. ![]() It also has much more about certain presidents who Eugene and Helene Allen worked for and their battles with civil rights inside the White House. It also is a historical retrospective of the history of blacks in American cinema. The book is a much more in-depth look at the life of Eugene and Helene Allen. Q: So many people read your article in The Washington Post. Tuesday, spoke to The Hill about how he found Allen and told his incredible story. Haygood, who will sign copies of the book at Politics & Prose at 7 p.m. ![]() ![]() It offers an extended look at Allen’s story and a forward by Lee Daniels, who directed the film based on Allen’s life starring Winfrey and Whitaker. Haygood has expanded his feature on Allen - who had a front row seat to the evolving civil rights movement as he served every president from Eisenhower to Reagan - into a book titled The Butler. It’s not every day that a newspaper article sparks a Hollywood movie starring Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker.īut Wil Haygood’s 2008 Washington Post article about White House butler Eugene Allen wasn’t just any article. ![]()
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