Gail Lumet Buckley Details Her Lineage In 'The Black Calhouns'

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Publicity photo of Lena Horne from her own stage show "Nine O'Clock Revue," 1961.

Author Gail Lumet Buckley visited Atlanta in February to give a lecture at the Margaret Mitchell House about her book, "The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family." The book traces Buckley’s family lineage through six generations and frames many of America’s pivotal moments through the viewpoint of her influential family.

From Moses Calhoun to Lena Horne, Gail Lumet Buckley describes how her family survived and thrived over the centuries.

We talk to Buckley about the book, her famous mother, Lena Horne, and what she learned about the highest branches of her family tree