Berkman, Alexander, 89, 156
Berlin
1930 visit to, 132–3
1934 visit to, 184–5, 629 n 2
blockade of, 325
Bernal, J. D., 341, 424
Berry, Abner, 346
Bessie, Alvah, 704 n 38
Best, Joseph, 202, 203, 636 n 45
Beste, Vernon, 224
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 255, 259, 285, 322, 333, 344, 392, 667 n 11, 673 n 23, 674 n 26, 681 n 16, 684 n 42, 687 n 19
Bevan, Aneurin, 425, 466
Bevin, Ernest, 672 n 18
Bibb, Joseph D., 256
Biberman, Edward, 668 n 21
Biberman, Herbert, 708 n 12
Biddle University, 10
Big Fella (film), 207–8
Bilbo, Theodore, 318
Billings, Warren K., 248–9
Bill of Rights Conference (1949), 382
Birkett, Norman, 160
Birth of a Nation (film), 3–4
Black, Cupe (“Cupid”), 23
black Americans
alternatives available to, 172
art’s role in the advance of, 71–2
culturally derived “racial traits” of, 173, 200
election of 1948 and, 325–6
labor unions and, 249–50, 255–6, 309, 310–11
Gertrude Stein on, 92
Westernized (assimilationist), 172–4, 199, 624 n 36, n 38; see also black churches; black culture; black nationalism; civil rights movement; racism
Black Boy (Tully and Dazey), 103–4, 596 712, 601–2 n 46, n 47, n 2
black caucuses in labor unions, 310–11
black churches, 226–7, 310, 375–6, 410–11
black culture, 173
Communist Party and, 250
PR on, 169
see also African culture; black nationalism
“Black Mafia,” 312, 666 n 8; see also Johnson, Ellsworth
Black Majesty (James), 196–7
Blackman, Peter, 340, 351–3
Black Muslim movement, 310, 527–8, 755 n 16; see also black nationalism; Malcolm X; Muhammad, Elijah
black nationalism, 172–5, 201–2, 309, 310, 575 n 24, 623–4 n 36; see also Black Muslim movement; Garvey, Marcus
Blackpool, performance of Voodoo in, 48
Black Progress (ER), 154, 166, 242, 618 n 3
Blaikely, J. B., 481
Blair, Mary, 57–8, 59, 63
Blake, James Hubert (“Eubie”), 45, 51, 549, 582 n 28
Blankfort, Michael, 632 n 21
Bledsoe, Geraldine (Maimie) Neale, 27–30, 38, 40–1, 45–6, 50, 549, 575–6 n 26, n 29, 583 n 30, 583–4 n 7, 734 n 33, 763 n 25
Bledsoe, Harry, 45, 583 n 30
Bledsoe, Julius (“Jules”), 73, 81, 105, 111, 113, 594 n 34
Blitzstein, Marc, 261, 421, 438, 677 n 39
Block, Harry, 102–3
Blockson, Charles L., 760 n 9
Bloor, Ella Reeve, 107, 396, 644 n 37
blues, the, 156, 177–8
Bluford, Lucile, 256
Boas, Franz, 3
Body and Soul (film), 77, 260
Bohlen, Chip, 407
Boles, John, 239
Boiling, Buddy, 42, 167
Boiling, Hattie, 41, 42, 147, 167, 195, 579 n 18, 691 n 49
Bomb, The (Harris), 95
Book of American Negro Spirituals, The (J. W. and J. R.Johnson), 81
Bookstein, Isidore, 319
Booth, Alan, 408, 437, 462–3
Borderline (film), 130–2, 260, 609 n 5, n 10, n 11
Boudin, Leonard, 425, 432, 433, 450, 452, 463, 714 n 46, 716 n 7, 717 n 9, 719 n 18
Boulton, Agnes (Mrs. Eugene O’Neill), 62, 75
Bowden, Marie, 537
boxing, 52, 584–5 n 11
Braden, Anne, 447
Bradford, Roark, 237–8
Bradley, Thomas, 377
Bransten, Louise, 244, 280, 532
Branton, Geri, 531, 757 n 22
Bricktop, 145, 598 n 18, 614 n 42, 618 n 4
Bridges, Harry, 285, 311, 399, 675 n 34, 706 n 43
Briehl, Walter, 452, 463
British Actors’ Equity, 449
Brittain, Vera, 205
Bromley, Bruce, 120
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 414
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 540
Brooks, Louise, 74
Broun, Heywood, 56, 64, 74, 79, 86, 102
Broun, Ruth Hale, see Hale, Ruth
Browder, Earl, 216, 219, 247–9, 259, 285, 293–4, 301–2, 332, 419, 420, 421
Browder, Raissa, 285, 667 n 12
Brown, Barrett, 619 n 13
Brown, Earl, 343, 379, 395, 693 n 61
Brown, Edgar G., 344
Brown, Ivor, 90
Brown, J. Douglas, 13, 17, 567 n 5
Brown, Lawrence (Larry), 49, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 98–100, 105, 106, 112, 113, 114, 116, 120, 146, 150, 151, 154, 156, 157, 164–6, 192, 195, 208, 222, 238, 240, 244, 245, 267, 292, 293, 297, 316, 327, 338, 350, 369, 463, 467, 470, 471, 482, 487, 491, 500, 505, 508, 545, 547, 594 n 34, 612 n 27, 617 n 61, n 66, 650 n 26, 672 n 17, 678 n 2, 680 n 11, 726 n 6, 734 n 35
as accompanist and arranger, 78–83, 85, 98, 112–15, 156, 240, 302, 338, 467, 470, 487, 729 n 6
last visit with PR, 508
Brown, Lloyd L., 393, 408–9, 417, 437, 439, 448, 458, 460, 463, 464, 466, 513, 524, 538, 544, 545, 548, 550, 716 n 4, 726 n 31, 761–2 n 15
Brown, Oscar C., Sr., 11, 12, 456, 578 n 14, 714 n 47, 722 n 3
Browne, Coral, 632 n 20
Browne, Maurice, 122, 133–6, 138–9, 607 n 36, 612 n 29
Browning, Harold, 44, 48–9, 51, 118
Browning, Hilda, 638 n 67
Brown v. Board of Education, 429–31, 446
Brownsville, Texas, riot, 4
Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), 130, 131, 609 n 9, 612 n 26
Buch Clinic (GDR), 514, 516–18, 520–1, 751–2 n 50
Buck, Pearl, 190, 285, 294, 313, 356, 704 n 34
Buckle, Desmond, 338, 340, 351, 685 n 7
Budapest, 1929 visit to, 121
Budd, A. B., 65
Bunche, Ralph, 248, 651 n 33, 726 n 31, 745–6 n 23
Bunker, Ellsworth, 461, 462, 472
Burge, Louise, 240
Burgess, Guy, 631 n 15
Burke, James, 21
Burke, Marie, 114, 449, 450, 481, 543
Burleigh, Harry T., 77, 80, 170, 594 n 34
Burley, Dan, 426
Burnham, Louis, 258, 392–3, 400–1, 692 n 51
Burns, Vincent, 657 n 62
Burroughs, Margaret, 456
Bush, Alan, 543, 603 n 6, 650–1 n 29
Bustill, Cyrus, 5
Bustill, Gertrude, 5, 8, 566 n 3
Bustill, Joseph Cassey, 5
Bustill family, 5, 8–9, 566 n 2, 568–9 n 14
Butt, Sir Alfred, 77–8, 84, 113, 115–17
Butts, Tony, 162
“By an’ By,” 80
Bynner, Witter, 74
Byrnes, James F., 298, 316
Cable, Ted, 290
Cacchione, Peter V., 282
Café Society, 177, 284
California, 308–9
1957 concerts in, 448–9, 722 n 4
1958 concerts in, 454–5
1965 trip to, 530–1
see also Peace Arch concert
Calloway, Cab, 625 n 46
Cameron, Angus, 675 n 33, 726 n 29, 742 n 3
Camp, Walter, 22, 23
Campanella, Roy, 396
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 44, 48, 49, 50–1, 91, 118
Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, 254, 649 n 17, 653 n 47
Canada
permission to travel to, 433
PR prevented from going to (1952), 399–400, 706 n 43, 719 n 22
Cap and Skull honor society, 26
Cardozo, Francis Lewis, 35–6
Cardozo, Isaac Nuñez, 35
Cardozo family, 578 n 9
Carlson, Col. Evans, 304
Carmichae
l, Harry, 483
Carr, James D., 23, 573 n 12
Casals, Pablo, 639 n 68
Castillo, Fernando, 216–17, 220, 640 n 15, 695 n 16
Castro, Fidel, 492, 513, 740 n 66, 749 n 39
Cather, Willa, 281
Catlett, Lester, 401
Cayton, Horace, 391, 443
Cayton, Lee, 244, 310, 426, 531, 532, 701 n 17
Cayton, Revels, 244, 250, 309–11, 315, 369, 370, 380, 391, 417, 420, 426, 435, 438, 448, 457, 531, 532, 549, 669 n 27, 672 n 17, 675 n 31, n 34, 677 n 43, 701 n 17
influence on PR, 310
Central Trades and Labor Council, 281
Chagla, M. C., 461, 462
Chaka, 166, 169
Chakravarty, P., 471–2
Chaliapin, Fyodor, 78, 82, 110, 115, 120
Challenge (magazine), 637 n 52
Chamberlain, Neville, 214, 233, 235
Chandler, Charles, 290
Chapin, Katherine Garrison (Mrs. Francis Biddle), 240
Chaplin, Charlie, 89, 696 n 21
Charlot’s Revue, 88
“Cheelai” (“March of the Volunteers”) 653 n 43
Chekhov, Anton, 291, 469, 482
Chervachidze, Prince, 163, 165
Chervachidze, Yolande, see Jackson, Yolande
Chester, Bill, 402
Chiang Kai-shek, 341, 347, 489
Chicago
1949 concerts in, 375–6
1958 concerts in, 456
Chicago Crusader, 459–60
Childress, Alice, 393, 425, 530–1, 703 n 29, n 30, 710 n 24
China, 174–5, 461, 541, 644 n 35, 653 n 39, 760 n 5
Chinese culture and relationship to Africa, 174–5, 188, 201–2
Communist victory in, 341, 384
Chinn, May, 33, 576 n 4, 592 n 17
Chotzinoff, Samuel, 608 n 41
Christophe Henri, 182, 190
Churchill, Winston, 266, 299, 303, 316, 322, 672 n 18
“Iron Curtain” speech, 303–4
Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 311, 317, 321, 337–8, 361, 375, 379, 430, 681 n 20
civil rights movement, see Robeson, Paul: civil rights movement and
Clark, Joseph, 432
Clark, Kenneth, 716 n 5
Clark, Ramsey, 546–7
Clark, Tom, 330, 363
Clef Club Orchestra, 43
Clifford, Clark, 324
Clurman, Harold, 271
Coates, Albert, 161, 186, 629 n 6
Cochran, Gifford, 621–2 n 25
Cock o’ the World (musical), 231
Cohen, Herbert E., 545
Cohn, Roy, 412
Cold War, xiii, 325, 338, 341, 407, 429
Cole, Bob, 43, 44
Cole, Dora (Norman), 43, 588 n 48
Cole, Kay, 752 n 51
Colefax, Sybil, 100, 123
Coleman, Robert, 104, 159, 277
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 91, 116, 227
Collegiate Chorale, 267–8
colonialism, 180, 296–301, 303–4, 307, 434
Columbia Artists Management, 338
Columbia Law Review, 53
Columbia University Law School, 30, 41, 43, 53–4
Combs, Richard E., 307, 308
Committee for the Negro in the Arts, 400
Communist Party, U.S.A. (CPUSA), 230, 247–50, 253, 255, 294, 301, 302, 307–8, 309–11, 317, 318, 322, 324–5, 327–9, 337–8, 363, 367–8, 370–73, 378, 379–80, 382–3, 397, 401, 411, 412, 416, 418–24, 430, 433, 451, 454–5, 458–9, 509–10, 647 n 3, 669 n 27, 675 n 31, 692 n 59, 692 n 55, 712 n 31, n 33, 717 n 14, 720 n 27, 726 n 29, 747 n 30, 760 n 10
1965 California trip of PR and, 531
“Americanization” of, 247
attempt to tone down PR’s rhetoric, 382–3, 423
black culture and, 250
blacks and, 309–10, 675 n 31, 712 n 31, n 33, 713 n 38, 721 n 32, 726, n 29
divorce of PR from ER opposed, 294
“Duclos Letter” and, 301–2
election of 1948 and, 322, 324–5
FBI raid (1948), 333, 333–4
indictment of leaders of (1948), 333–4
labor unions and, 249–50
“misuse” of PR by, 380
National Negro Congress (NNC) and, 247, 248
on Nazi-Soviet Pact, 247–9
Peekskill events (1949) and, 368
PR’s disillusion with, rumors of, 415
PR on legality of, 318
PR’s (non)membership in, 301, 307–8, 418
PR’s relationship to, 328–30, 415, 418–24, 458–9, 712 n 31, n 33
Smith Act indictments (1951), 397
Smith Act trial of leaders of (1949), 337–8, 355, 358, 363–4, 372, 379, 397
Confucius, 174
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 247, 249, 250, 252, 255–6, 266, 268, 281, 282, 294, 322, 363, 652 n 36
Conjure Man Dies, The (Fisher), 33
Connelly, Marc, 285
Connor, Edric, 686 n 12, 725 n 16, 750 n 48
Constantine (cricket player), 116
Cook, Corinne (Wright), 42, 147–8, 245
Cook, George Cram (“Jig”), 55
Cook, Nilla, 61
Cook, Will Marion, 44, 48, 608 n 41
Cooper, Diana (Lady Duff Gordon), 93, 136
Cooper, Gladys, 89
Copenhagen, 1949 concerts in, 350
Coplon, Judith, 383–4
Coppicus, F. C., 125
Cornell, Katharine, 100
Corning, Erastus, II, 319
Corwin, Norman, 236, 679 n 9
Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 381, 699 n 1
Council on African Affairs (CAA), 266, 284–5, 296–9, 304, 338, 340–1, 357, 361, 375, 388, 390, 392, 400, 437, 669 n 2, 670 n 6, 673 n 23, 683 n 35, 692 n 51, 693–4 n 62, 696 n 21
branded Communist, 297, 347, 414, 441
conflict between PR and Yergan, 330–3, 346, 684 n 42
formation and goals, 257–8, 655–6 n 55
Couzens, Tim, 636 n 50
Coward, Noel, 88, 144, 146, 147, 281, 614 n 40, 615 n 48
Private Lives, 147, 160
Cowley, Malcolm, 61
Cox, Gene, 373
Cox, Philip, 608 n 38
Craig’s restaurant, 75
Cripps, Stafford, 213
Crockett, George W., Jr., 372, 685 n 4
Crowder, Henry, 158
Crum, Bartley, 306
Crump, Boss, 326
Cruse, Harold, 575 n 24
Cullen, Countee, 74, 90, 96, 100, 171, 591–2 n 16, 622–3 n 27
cultural pluralism (PR on), 172–3
Cunard, Nancy, 158–60, 191, 193, 618 n 5
Cunelli, George, 746 n 26
Cunningham, Gertrude, 566 n 2, 759 n 1
Curran, Joseph, 267, 285
Current, Gloucester, 307
Currier, Mrs. Guy, 77, 86
Czechoslovakia, 120–1, 297–8, 350–1, 472, 689 n 38
Dabney, Wendell P., 159
Dadoo, Yussef, 340, 350, 424
Daladier, Édouard, 233, 235
Dancer, Earl, 666 n 5
Danis, Sydney, 364–5
Dankworth, Johnny, 481, 543
Dark Sands (Jericho) (film), 209, 210, 638 n 63
Darlington, W. A., 477
Darr, Rev. John Whittier, Jr., 355–6
Darvas, Lili, 610 n 13
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 251
Davenport, Millia, 60–1, 80
Davenport, Robert, 19, 27, 575 n 25
Davenport, Sadie, see Shelton, Sadie
David Goliath (film), see Proud Valley, The
Davidoff, Amy, 107, 109
Davidoff, Bess, 107
Davidoff, Harry, 107
Davies, Lloyd G., 376–7, 490–1
Davis, Angela, 546
Davis, Benjamin, Jr., 238, 243, 285, 323, 324, 331, 346–8, 363, 398, 423, 442, 448, 454, 513, 525, 666 n 8, 670 n 6, 671 n 16, 674 n 26, 675 n 33, 688 n 30, 691 n 49
, 692 n 51, 726 n 31
and CPUSA, 257, 283–4, 310, 340, 368, 379–80, 420–2, 510
friendship with PR, 230, 264, 424, 438, 458, 463, 524, 676 n 36, 710 n 19, 718 n 15
and Eslanda Robeson, 294
and Smith Act, 429–30, 685 n 4, 713 n 38
and Soviet Union, 208, 221, 383
Davis, John P., 247–8, 251, 252, 652 n 34
Davis, Ossie, 528, 547, 761 n 12
Davis, Vincent, 401, 402
Davison, Harold, 452, 465, 466, 472, 506, 508, 509, 511, 524, 748 n 32, 762 n 17
Dawson, William L., 280, 701 n 20
Dazey, Frank, 103, 601 n 45, 602 n 47, 603–4 n 10
Dee, Ruby, 547, 761 n 12
“Deep River,” 410, 550
Deeter, Jasper, 581 n 23, 662 n 34
“De Glory Road,” 655 n 53
Delany, Claire, 102
Delany, Hubert T., 102, 333, 681 n 16
Delmer, Paul, 469, 730 n 13
Delta Sigma Theta, 41
Demarest, William H. S., 23, 26
DeMille, Cecil B., 101
Dempsey, Jack, 52
Dennis, Eugene, 206–7, 322, 383, 398, 418, 420, 421, 422, 424
Dennis, Peggy, 206–7, 418, 421, 422
De Organizer (opera), 230
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), 75
Dessalines, Jean Jacques, 190
Dewey, Thomas E., 53, 334, 367, 370, 371, 377
Diamond, Freda, 107–8, 109, 126, 151, 164, 179, 198, 220, 241–2, 246, 247, 268, 277, 286–7, 292, 314, 339, 349, 358, 417, 436, 439, 440, 463, 467, 481, 487, 500, 501, 524, 538, 544, 548, 549, 664 n 45, 676 n 36, 677 n 41, 678 n 2, 686 n 10, 695 n 16, 700 n 12, 701 n 17, 720 n 24
ER and, 241, 242, 247, 436
living arrangements of PR with, 241
marriage to Alfred (“Barry”) Baruch, 241, 242
relationship with PR, 286–7, 339–40
Diamond, Ida (Mama), 107–8, 603 n 54
Dickerson, Earl, 324, 518, 528, 655 n 55, 668 n 20
Dies, Martin, 261
Dies Committee, 238–9
Digges, Dudley, 622 n 25
Dirksen, Everett M., 319
Dobb, Maurice, 627 n 59
Donat, Robert, 181
Don’t You Want to Be Free? (Hughes), 231, 643 n 31
Dorfman, Ania, 128
Douglas, William O., 53, 443, 463
Douglas, Winston, 12, 570 n 22, 571 n 29
Douglass, Frederick, 145, 357, 376, 434, 485
Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 5
Downer Street St. Luke A. M. E. Zion Church, 9
Downes, Olin, 366
Draper, Muriel, 187, 338, 591 n 13
Draper, Paul, 78
Draper, Ruth, 88, 115
Dreiser, Theodore, 74, 281, 285, 603–4 n 10, 652 n 34, 652 n 35, 665 n 3
Driberg, Tom, 449, 465, 466, 467
Du Bois, Shirley, see Graham, Shirley
Du Bois, W.E.B., 4, 26, 27, 56, 66, 71, 80–1, 100, 137–8, 170, 173, 226, 257, 281, 306, 321, 323, 325, 331, 333, 334, 341, 345, 346, 357, 383, 392–3, 396, 398, 401, 406, 442, 457, 473, 500, 501, 505, 508, 523, 524, 525, 527, 534, 673 n 25, n 26, 680 n 12, 681 n 16, 684 n 42, n 45, 688 n 26, 692 n 51, 703 n 27, n 28, 704 n 36, 705 n 41, 717 n 12, 732 n 22, 734 n 34, n 36, 746 n 25, 755 n 14
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