# Black No More — Character guide

> Key figures in Black No More by George Schuyler.

- [Max Disher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/max_disher.md): Max Disher cuts a rakish figure outside the Honky Tonk Club in his raccoon coat, one of the Aframerican Fire Insurance Company's crack agents and a sworn devotee of yellow money, yellow women, and yellow taxis. When his 
- [Matthew Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/matthew_fisher.md): Matthew Fisher arrives at Rev. Givens's door presenting himself as a scientific man, though his knowledge of anthropology begins and ends with an argument he read in a Sunday supplement. What he lacks in learning he make
- [Bunny Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/bunny_brown.md): Bunny Brown claps Max on the shoulder outside the Honky Tonk Club, resplendent in spats and a narrow-brimmed fedora, ready to shrug off a lost woman and find a party instead. A man of action rather than reflection, he so
- [Arthur Snobbcraft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/arthur_snobbcraft.md): Arthur Snobbcraft presides over the Anglo-Saxon Association with the confidence of a man who has never questioned his own pedigree, and he moves through the novel's racial politics with his nose permanently wrinkled. Str
- [Dr. Junius Crookman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/junius_crookman.md): Dr. Junius Crookman, son of an Episcopal clergyman and product of careful Negro-aristocracy upbringing, has spent thirty-five peaceful years reading Negro weeklies and collecting African masks before his discovery thrust
- [Dr. Samuel Buggerie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/samuel_buggerie.md): Dr. Samuel Buggerie travels in Snobbcraft's orbit as the movement's resident man of numbers, his rheumy eyes popping with alarm whenever the plane's motor misses over Mississippi. It is Buggerie who discovers the tin of 
- [Rev. Henry Givens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/henry_givens.md): Givens runs the Knights of Nordica out of a barn-like hall on Peachtree Street, trading on his old Klan connections and a talent for whipping up racial panic. His real devotion is to the collection plate, and he warms in
- [Helen Givens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/helen_givens.md): Helen has always wanted a scientist, a literary man, someone above the lowbrows her father's movement attracts. She holds off on Matthew's first proposal only because his pockets look thin, then softens as the Nordica tr
- [Charlie Foster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/charlie_foster.md): Foster moves through Atlanta's white society with an organizer's ease and a restless, unrequited fixation on a girl who once refused him. His pursuit of her pulls him deeper into the Nordica machinery and into the orbit 
- [Alex McPhule](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/alex_mcphule.md): McPhule preaches racial purity with the fervor of a man who has made it his livelihood, and he guards his turf jealously. He resents the upstarts and smooth operators who threaten to siphon off his followers and his inco
- [Hank Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/hank_johnson.md): Johnson crosses over into whiteness expecting an open sesame, and instead finds dull, grasping, ill-bred society waiting on the other side. He drifts between the cabarets of Harlem and the stiff amusements of white Atlan
- [Mr. Walter Williams](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/walter_williams.md): Williams trades his old life for a desk job inside the very machinery that claims to defend racial purity. From that vantage he sees how newspapers and businessmen fan color prejudice for profit, and how little the chang
- [Helen Fisher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/helen_fisher.md): Matthew Fisher's wife, who appears in the later part of the book.
- [Mrs. Givens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/mrs_givens.md): Rev. Givens's wife and Helen's mother, who appears in family scenes.
- [Dr. Shakespeare Agamemnon Beard](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/shakespeare_agamemnon_beard.md): Beard belongs to the genteel Negro aristocracy — the Episcopal son raised on African masks, race newspapers, and the careful cultivation of a civilized self. He is vain about his learning and his standing, a man who want
- [Sisseretta Blandish](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/sisseretta_blandish.md): In the social world of Harlem's strivers, Madame Blandish is a small entrepreneur of racial aspiration, selling transformations to women who want to look less like themselves. Her trade depends on the very color line tha
- [Gorman Gay](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/gorman_gay.md): A white man who becomes involved with the movement and later faces scandal.
- [Grand Exalted Giraw](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/grand_exalted_giraw.md): Giraw presides over a fraternal order built on ritual, uniforms, and the promise of racial purity, a racket as much as a movement. His power rests on the presence of a visible Black underclass, so the success of Black-No
- [Santop Licorice](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/santop_licorice.md): A Black man who becomes white and later appears in the South.
- [Doc Crookman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/doc_crookman.md): An informal name for Dr. Junius Crookman used by some characters.
- [Dr. Joseph Bonds](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/joseph_bonds.md): A Black doctor who assists in the movement's operations.
- [Big Boy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/big_boy.md): A minor character who appears in a scene with the main characters.
- [President Harold Goosie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/president_harold_goosie.md): Goosie governs a country in which the old categories are dissolving faster than the law can name them, and he responds the way politicians do — by watching which way the crowd is moving. He is less a villain than a weath
- [The Negroes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/the_negroes.md): The collective Black population referenced throughout the book.
- [Knights of Nordica](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/knights_of_nordica.md): The order functions as a social club, a political machine, and a business, selling uniforms and membership to men who want to feel like defenders of a race they can no longer reliably identify. Its halls host labor meeti
- [Miss Smith](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/miss_smith.md): A minor female character mentioned in the narrative.
- [Senator Rufus Kretin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/senator_rufus_kretin.md): A politician who appears in the political satire.
- [Imperial Grand Wizard Givens](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/black_no_more_se/characters/imperial_grand_wizard_givens.md): A title for Rev. Henry Givens in his role in the Knights of Nordica.

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