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by Yuval Taylor


  “Smoke, Lilies, and Jade,” 77–78, 79

  on taking sides, 219–20

  n-word

  in correspondence, 199

  in titles, 74

  Odessa, USSR, 223

  Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, 35

  Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, 213

  O’Neill, Eugene, 10, 54, 162, 184

  Ontario, Canada, 61

  opera, black culture–inspired, 61–62

  Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life magazine, 11–12, 18, 33, 50, 63, 74, 77, 104, 226–27

  awards dinner, 8, 19–22, 49, 50

  contest held by, 12, 13–15, 17, 19–20

  Hughes’s letter to Bennett published in, 109

  presentation of prizes by, 8–10

  pan-African history, 37

  Paris, France, 43, 46

  Parker family, 110–11

  Parsons, Elsie Clews, 99

  Patterson, Louise Thompson. See Thompson (Patterson), Louise

  Patterson, William L., 224

  the Peeples, 154

  Peterson, Dorothy, 50

  Peterson, Sadie, 109

  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 125

  Philadelphia Jimmie’s, 54

  Philadelphia Tribune, 93

  Philips and Darling, 121

  phrenology, 230

  Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 148

  Pinkney, Colonel, 124

  Pittsburgh Courier, 90, 93, 94

  The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 200, 208–9

  politics

  Hughes and, 182–83, 188, 234

  Hurston and, 234, 235–36

  Polk County, Florida, 140

  Porgy, 131

  Potts, Lucy. See Hurston, Lucy

  the preliterate, 43

  Price, Albert, 228

  primitivism, 4–5, 71–73, 76, 85–88, 131–32, 136, 140, 153, 181–82

  Princess Theater, 162

  propaganda, 64–65

  race riots, 11, 38–39

  racial anthropology, 70

  racial difference, 76

  primitivism and, 72

  theories of, 70–71, 230

  racial injustice, 64, 65, 66–70, 76

  racial justice, 241–42

  racism, 148

  Raleigh, North Carolina, 125

  Rampersad, Arnold, 10, 20, 48–49, 70, 93, 169–70, 177, 239

  Randolph, A. Philip, 8

  Reagan, Caroline Dudley, 81, 82, 201

  Reconstruction, 100

  “red summer” of 1919, 38–39

  the Reeds, 36

  resentment, 65, 67, 68–69

  La Révue Negre, 201

  Richardson, Willis, 19

  Richmond, Virginia, 125

  Robeson, Eslanda, 225

  Robeson, Paul, 9, 11, 89, 225

  Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” 48

  Roche, Emma Langdon, 106

  Rockingham, North Carolina, 125

  Rogers, Joel Augustus, 12

  Samuel French agency, 192, 202

  Sandburg, Carl, 23, 36–37

  “Grass,” 37

  “Jazz Fantasia,” 37

  Saratoga Springs, New York, 61

  Saturday Evening Post, 232, 234

  Saturday Review of Literature, 60, 93

  Savage, Augusta, 50

  Savannah, Georgia, 123–24, 235

  Savoy Ballroom, 20, 154–55, 175

  Schuyler, George, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” 62–63

  Scott, Dinah, 122

  Scottsboro boys, 183

  Scribner’s Magazine, 223

  segregation, 100, 154

  self-pity, 65

  sexuality, 55, 79–80

  sharecropping, 102

  Sheen, Genevieve, 32

  Sheen, Herbert, 32, 91–92, 100, 136

  Sheldon, Edward, The Nigger, 74

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 182

  Shuffle Along, 11

  Shumlin, Herman, 201

  Silvera, Edward, 94

  Sissle, Noble, 11, 48, 51

  slam poetry, 244

  slave narratives, 42–43

  slavery, 104, 117, 143

  slave ships, 105

  slave trade, 105

  Small’s Paradise nightclub, 51, 54, 75, 82

  Smith, Ada (Bricktop), 44

  Smith, Bessie, 11, 120–21, 122

  Smith, Clarence, 122

  Smith, Maud, 122

  Smith, Tom R., 119

  social justice, 241–42

  the South, 98–126, 127, 133, 135–36, 139, 140–44, 148, 149, 157, 174, 194, 227. See also specific locations

  exodus of blacks from, 101–2

  misconceptions about, 100–101

  Southern Pines, North Carolina, 125

  Soviet Union, 222–23

  Spingarn, Amy, 52

  Spingarn, Arthur, 184, 185, 204–5, 206–7, 208, 210, 211, 214–17

  Spingarn, Joel Elias, 52

  spirituals, 54, 92

  SS Europa, 222–23

  SS Malone, 42–43

  Stalin, Josef, 223

  Statesboro, Georgia, 123

  St. Augustine, Florida, 91, 144

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 61

  Stein, Gertrude, 19

  stereotypes, 19, 103–4, 161–62, 163

  Stevens, Wallace, 19

  Stieglitz, Alfred, 54

  Still, William Grant, 11

  St. Louis, Missouri, 102

  Stoddard, Lothrop, 70

  street lit, 244

  “Striver’s Row,” 51

  student strikes, 148

  the Stylus, 33

  Sullivan, Noël, 226

  “sundown towns,” 100

  The Survey, 81

  Survey Graphic, 18

  “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro,” 18

  “New Negro” issue, 18

  Survey Midmonthly, 18

  Sydney, Iolanthe, 51

  Talbot County, Georgia, 114–15

  “talented tenth,” 123

  talking book, trope of, 42–43

  Taylor, Robert R., 108

  theater, 11, 31, 137–38, 161–62, 198–99

  Theatre Guild, 194, 200, 201, 205, 209

  Thompson (Patterson), Louise, 5–6, 85, 148–52, 154, 190

  account of Mule-Bone’s composition, 208

  in Cleveland, Ohio, 195

  co-founds Harlem Suitcase Theater, 224

  in Harlem, 159

  Hughes and, 154–55, 159, 168–70, 175–78, 184–87, 195–96, 201–4, 207–13, 224, 228, 239, 241

  Hurston and, 158–59, 170, 175–78, 184–87, 196, 201–4, 207–12, 218, 225, 228, 234, 239

  job with Congregational Education Society, 186

  Locke and, 150, 188

  marriages of, 218, 224

  Mason and, 150–52, 154, 160, 166–74, 175, 186–88, 201–2, 212

  in the South, 149

  travels to Moscow, USSR, 222–23, 234

  Thompson, Samuel, 141

  Thurman, Wallace, 5, 50–51, 64, 74, 77–78, 94, 131, 139, 143, 154–55, 177, 212, 217–18

  The Blacker the Berry, 148

  “Cordelia the Crude,” 79

  death of, 226

  Fire!! and, 79, 81

  “Fire Burns,” 80

  homosexuality of, 148

  Infants of the Spring, 51, 56–57, 221–22

  marriage to Thompson, 148

  Toluca, Mexico, 38–39

  “tom-tom,” metaphor of, 73

  Toomer, Jean, 9, 33, 63, 94, 180

  Cane, 12, 89, 116, 117

  family of, 116–18

  Toomer, John, 116–17

  Toomer plantation, 116–17

  Truth, Sojourner, 104

  Turkestan, 57

  Tuskegee, Alabama, 107, 111, 112–14

  Tuskegee Institute. See Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers

  The Tuskegee Messenger, 107, 112

  Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, 107–8, 112–14

  Tuskegee’s Movable Sc
hool, 109–11, 112, 113

  Tynes, Harcourt, 51

  Uncle Remus, 117

  Universal Negro Improvement Association, 33

  University of Kansas, 36

  University of New Orleans, 139

  Urban League, 74, 148, 183

  US Highway System, 125

  Van der Veer Quick, Charlotte. See Mason, Charlotte Osgood

  Van Doren, Carl, 10, 11, 13

  Van Doren, Dorothy, 10

  Van Doren, Mark, 10

  Van Doren family, 10

  Vanity Fair, 20, 76, 121

  Van Vechten, Carl, 19–24, 48, 53–56, 61–62, 73, 81, 82, 92, 119, 128

  Bessie Smith and, 120–21

  at Carnegie Hall, 89

  correspondence with Hughes, 211–12

  departure for Europe, 170

  exoticism and, 73

  Harlem Renaissance and, 76–77

  Hughes and, 92–93, 108, 115–18, 171, 185, 194–95, 199–201, 204, 225, 228, 235, 239

  Hurston and, 118, 186, 188, 194, 197, 200–201, 204, 224, 231, 232, 237

  Locke and, 215

  at New World Cabaret, 72

  “Niggerati” and, 76–77

  Nigger Heaven, 74–75, 80, 94, 140

  Vanity Fair article on the blues, 121

  Vaudeville Comedy Club, 20, 54

  Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (Virginia State University), 35

  voodoo, 141–42

  Walker, A’Lelia, 51, 55, 144, 219

  Walker, Alice, 231

  “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” 243

  “To Hell with Dying,” 243

  “Turning Into Love: Some Thoughts on Surviving and Meeting Langston Hughes,” viii–ix

  Walker, Margaret, 236

  Wall, Cheryl, 129

  Waller, Fats, 51

  Wall Street crash, 154

  Walrond, Eric, 14, 48, 94

  Ward, Joseph, 113

  Wardman Park Hotel, 51–52

  war drum, metaphor of, 72–73

  Washington, Booker T., 107, 113

  Washington, D.C., 32–33, 49, 51–52

  Washington Eagle, 93

  Wasserman, Eddie, 81, 128

  watermelon, negative connotations of, 103–4

  Waters, Ethel, 11, 41, 51, 82, 128

  Watson, Steven, 79–80

  West, Dorothy, 139

  Westfield, New Jersey, 154, 156, 166, 174, 185, 203, 216

  Wharton, Edith, 90

  whippings, 102

  White, Clarence Cameron, 62

  White, Edward, 75

  White, Walter, 12, 41, 48, 76, 225–26

  white American literature, 243, 244

  Whitman, Walt, 46

  “I Hear America Singing,” 44

  Leaves of Grass, 43, 93

  Williams, Bert, 41

  Williams, H. Rogers, 104

  Williams, Laudee, 155

  Williams, Lucy Ariel, 104

  “Northboun’,” 104

  Williams, Mary, 108

  Williams, William Carlos, 44

  Wilson, Frank

  Meek Mose, 162

  Pa Williams’ Gal, 162

  Wood, Clement

  Mountain, 14

  Nigger, 14, 74

  Poets of America, 14

  Woodson, Carter G., 49, 99, 106, 113, 140

  Woollcott, Alexander, 10, 15, 49

  Workers Monthly, 183

  The World Tomorrow, 50, 64, 147

  Wright, Richard, 34, 69, 229, 236, 236, 242

  xenophobia, 11

  YMCA, 20

  You Mus’ Be Bo’n Ag’in, 162, 199, 210

  Ziegfeld, Florenz, 54

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  Names: Taylor, Yuval, author.

  Title: Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor.

  Description: First edition. | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018050513 | ISBN 9780393243918 (hardcover)

  Subjects: LCSH: Hurston, Zora Neale. | Hughes, Langston, 1902–1967. | African American authors—20th century—Biography.

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