1950 senate campaign, 392
on All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 66
antilynching campaign and (1946), 306
Council on African Affairs and, 331
cultural elitism in views of, 72
death of, 523
Freedom magazine and, 392, 393
NAACP and, 323, 334
Duchamp, Marcel, 618 n 4
Duclos, Jacques, 301, 421
“Duclos Letter,” 301–2, 671 n 15
Dukes, Ashley, 89
Dulles, John Foster, 297, 377, 431, 434–5, 453, 472
Duncan, Augustin, 43, 48, 53, 67
Dungee, Roscoe C., 333–4
Dunham, Katherine, 181
Dunnigan, Alice, 375
Duranty, Walter, 162
Durr, Clifford J., 359
Dutch Treat Club, 82–3
Dutt, R. Palme, 225
Dwight, Mabel, 78
Ealing Studios, 231
East Berlin, 461
1960 visits to, 483–4, 486–7
1963 trip to, 514–18
see also East Germany
East Germany (GDR), 483–4, 485, 486–7, 493, 498, 542, 543, 727 n 34, 738 n 55, 743 n 6, 760 n 12; see also Buch Clinic; East Berlin
Eastland, James, 441, 442
Eastman, Chrystal, 91, 95
Eastman, Max, 95–6
Ebony (magazine), 394, 395, 460, 544, 727 n 32
Edinburgh University, 193–4
Egelloc Club, 82
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 469
Einstein, Albert, 307, 320
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 253, 404, 405–6, 429, 444, 446, 728 n 39
Eisenstein, Sergei, 182–3, 185–7, 189–90, 194, 196, 203–4, 208, 222, 627 n 59, 630 n 14, 631 n 15, 637 n 57
Eitingon, Bess (formerly Rockmore), 55, 162, 623 n 27
Eitingon, Motty, 623 n 27
Ellerman, Winifred, see Bryher
Ellington, Duke, 176, 231, 285, 625 n 46, 668 n 20, 761 n 12
Elllis, Mary, 79
Elmhirst, Leonard, 607 n 36
Elzy, Ruby, 238, 622 n 25
Emergency Committee to Protest the Peekskill Riot, 367
Emerson, Thomas, 382
Emperor Jones, The (opera), 111
Emperor Jones, The (film), 167–9, 223, 621–2 n 25, 622 n 27
Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill), 53, 75, 121, 580 n 23, 582 n 24, 585 n 14, 585–6 n 15, 587 n 42, 588 n 51, n 52, 592 n 20, 593 n 22 597 n 10, 607 n 34
1939 revival, 228
1940 revival, 240
Berlin production of, 132
Broadway production (1925), 77
first act of, in one-man show (1930), 140, 613 n 35
London production of, 77–8, 83, 89–91
closing, 91
opening, 89
public response, 90
reviews, 90–1, 597 n 10
PR on, 168
Provincetown Players production, 59–63, 68, 74, 77
costumes, 60
dress rehearsals, 61
Gilpin and, 61–3, 587 n 42
Jimmy Light’s direction, 60
O’Neill and, 61, 62, 587 n 42
opening, 61
reviews, 62–3, 587 n 43, n 44
Eneas Africanus (Anderson and Weill), 230, 645 n 41
Enescu, Georges, 76
England, see Great Britain
Epps, Emma, 6, 567 n 4, 568 n 13
Epstein, Jacob, 647 n 1
Ericson, Hazel (Dodge), 679 n 9
Ervine, St. John, 89, 114
Ethiopia, 195, 225, 248
Ethiopian Art Theater, 56
Europe, Lt. James, 32
“Exhortations” (Cook), 608 n 41
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 322, 325, 385, 387, 415, 421
Fallen Angels (Coward), 88
Fancy Free (Houghton), 614 n 35
Fanelli, George M., 367, 369, 370–72, 695 n 19
Farmer, James, 756 n 18
Fascism, 180, 191, 256, 266, 282, 318, 340, 367, 377, 382, 402, 419; 512; see also Hitler, Adolf; Mussolini, Benito
Fast, Howard, 338, 366, 384, 388, 428, 679 n 11
Faulds, Andrew, 476, 484, 733 n 31
Fauntroy, Rev. James, 756 n 18
Fauset, Jessie, 74
Fay, Frank, 671 n 14
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), xiii, 258, 266, 285, 297, 298, 300–3, 319, 320, 337, 354, 366, 367, 368, 376, 383, 386, 394, 400, 403, 411, 415, 426, 439, 442, 453, 454–5, 463, 484, 522–3, 547, 653–4 n 47, 665, n 47, 666 n 5, 669 n 2, 670–2 n 4–6, n 10, n 12, n 14, n l6–17, n 21, 679 n 7, 680 n 13, 683 n 28, 689 n 41, 694 n 2, 708 n 12, 714 n 48, 716 n 6, 722 n 4, 725 n 21, 726 n 31, 729 n 40, 748 n 37, 750 n 47, 759, n 4; see also Hoover, J. Edgar
on PR’s rumored “takeover” of NAACP, 448, 454
on PR’s status of health, 435, 509, 540, 542, 747 n 27
speculations on ER’s CP membership, 678 n 3, 709 n 18
speculation on PR’s CP membership, 253–4, 280, 301, 317, 327–8, 685 n 2
Feffer, Itzik, 352–4, 417, 690 n 42
Ferber, Edna, 159, 618 n 7
Ferguson, Homer, 328, 329
Ferrer, José (Joe), 264, 265, 268–9, 278, 286, 288–92, 311–13, 406, 664 n 43, 665 n 3, 670 n 4, 676 n 38, 707 n 5
Fidler, Jimmy, 376
Field, Edith, 298
Field, Frederick V., 298, 670 n 6
Field, Marshall, 299, 300, 318
Fieldston school, 235
film industry, American, 169, 217, 227, 640 n 8
Fink, Max, 743 n 11, 745 n 13
Fire in the Flint (White), 72–3
First Presbyterian Church (Princeton), 567 n 6
First Presbyterian Church of Color (Princeton), 567 n 6
Fish, Hamilton, 695 n 20
Fisher, Rudolph (“Bud”), 33, 39, 74
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 80
Fitzgerald, Eleanor (Fitzi), 77, 88, 89, 96–7, 622 n 27
Fitzgerald, Ella, 177, 283, 506–7
Flemming, Thomas, 443
Flood, John, 502, 503, 743 n 11, 745 n 13
Flory, Cathern, 456
Flory, Ishmael, 283, 456–7, 713 n 46
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 249, 382–3, 423, 510, 754 n 10
folk music, 176, 178, 218, 438, 632 n 19, 728 n 38
football, PR and
All-American teams, 22
coaching, 76–7, 577 n 7
Hall of Fame rejection, 760 n 8, 763 n 21
high school, 16, 571–2 n 32
injuries, 20, 21, 34
while at law school, 34
professional, 34, 52, 577 n 7
at Rutgers, 19–24, 573 n 9, 760 n 8
benching of PR against Washington and Lee, 22–3
Newport Naval Reserve, game against, 23–4
Southern opponents, 22–3
West Virginia team, game against, 23
white players’ attitudes and behavior toward PR, 20–1, 572 n 5
Forbes-Leith, Major, 82
Forbes-Robertson, Jean, 144, 154–5, 614 n 40
Ford, James, 655 n 55
Ford, Joseph, 392
Ford, Wallace, 209, 210
Foreman, Clark, 326, 432, 433
Forman, James, 540
Forsythe, Marian Robeson, 5, 9, 163, 277, 427, 456, 500, 523–4, 528, 535, 538, 539–42, 544, 545–6, 548, 567 n 5, 691 n 49, 733 n 27, 759 n 12, 762 n 17
PR at home of (1966–67), 539–42, 545, 567 n 5, 568 n 9
Forsythe, Paulina, 539, 759 n 1, 762 n 17
Foster, William Z., 252, 302, 322, 383, 396, 419, 421, 422, 437, 444, 448, 454, 652 n 35, 712 n 37, 743 n 8
“Fourteenth Amendment, The” (PR’s senior thesis), 25–6
France, 297
1925 stay in, 91–8
Villefranche, 93–7
Francis, Harry, 465, 491–2, 498, 505–6, 508, 509, 511, 515, 742 n 1, 748 n 31, 749 n 47, 752 n 51, 754 n 8, 755 n 15
Franco, Francisco, 211–12, 213, 318,
489
Frank, Waldo, 633 n 25
Frazier, E. Franklin, 374, 377, 378, 655 n 55, 668 n 23, 684 n 39
Free African Society, 5
Freedom (magazine), 392–3, 400–3, 409, 414, 420, 437, 457
Freedom Associates, 409, 414
Freedomways (magazine), 527–30, 755 n 16, 756 n 17, n 19
Free India movement, 266
Freulich, Roman, 642 n 20
Friedman, Milton H., 412, 439, 440, 442, 717 n 12
Fritchman, Stephen, 518, 530, 531, 548, 757 n 22, 723 n 6
Frontier Films, 261, 657 n 64
Fur and Leather Workers Union, 338, 366, 368, 369, 429, 666 n 4, 655, n 55
Futter, Walter, 643–4 n 33
Gaffhey, John, 368, 369–72
Galantiere, Lewis, 92
Gambs, Alexandre, 149
Gandhi, Indira, 464, 547, 727 n 37, 728 n 40
Gandhi, Mohandas K., 133, 176
Garden, Mary, 599 n 21
Gardner, Ethel A., 150, 617 n 56
Garland, Walter, 424
Garvey, Marcus, 71, 172, 203, 310, 610 n 16
Garvey, Mrs. Marcus, 192
Gates, John, 419, 420, 423, 680 n 11
Gautier, Théophile, 274–5
Gautier-Vignal, Count Louis, 94
Gay, Katherine, 79
GDR, see East Germany
General Line (film), 190
Genocide Campaign, 398
Georgia Tech, 22
German Democratic Republic, see East
Germany Germany, Nazi, 132–3, 178, 184–5, 233, 298
nonaggression pact with Soviet Union, 231–2, 247, 248, 283
Gershwin, George, 73, 193
Gerstadt, John, 272–3
Ghana, 485, 492, 493, 501, 508, 737 n 53
Ghosts of Yesterday (film), 49
Gibbs, Wolcott, 278
Gibson, Lydia, 216
Gielgud, John, 138, 197, 507, 543, 620 n 15, 745 n 16
Gillespie, Dizzy, 177, 391, 528, 761 n 12
Gillmore, Frank, 116, 117
Gilmore, Virginia, 268
Gilpin, Charles, 43, 53, 57, 61–3, 77, 83, 587 n 42
Gish, Lillian, 138
Glaspell, Susan, 55
Gloag, Helena, 449
“Go Down, Moses,” 80
Gold, Ben, 338, 429
Gold, Mike, 62, 107
Goldfarb, Alvin I., 541
Goldman, Emma, 89, 94, 95, 156, 198, 203, 597 n 7, 634 n 35
Gold Rush, The (film), 89
Golden, Bertha and Lillie, 730 n 10
Gollan, John, 513
Gollancz, Victor, 225
Gols i Soler, Joan, 219
Good, Roger, 545
Goodbye Uncle Tom (earlier called Uncle Tom’s Cabin) (ER), 154, 157, 166, 242, 292–3, 617–18 n 3
Goode, Eslanda (Ma) (Essie’s mother), 36–7, 42, 59, 72, 86, 112, 113, 118, 119, 140, 144, 145, 150, 152, 154, 161, 181, 185, 208, 209, 246, 292, 293, 314, 356, 412, 692 n 50
in the Soviet Union, 205–6, 211, 633 n 25
raising PR, Jr., 115, 189, 194, 205, 210–11, 221–2, 235, 633 n 26
Goode, Frank, 36, 185, 208, 470, 629 n 3
Goode, John, Jr., 36, 185, 187, 208, 629 n 3
Goode, John, Sr., 36, 185, 629 n 3
Goode, Sadie, see Shelton, Sadie
Goodlett, Carlton, 513, 723 n 6
Goodman, Benny, 253, 654–5 n 51
Gordon, Lady Duff, see Cooper, Diana
Gordon, Taylor, 81, 102
Gould, Mrs. George, 36
Gould, Jay, 54
Gracie Square psychiatric hospital, 532, 535, 539–40, 757 n 28, 758 n 29, n 30, n 37, n 39, n 41
Graham, Frank P., 259
Graham, Shirley (Du Bois), 442, 473, 501, 505, 508, 668 n 23, 682 n 26, 734 n 34
Grande-Covian, F., 218, 219
Granger, Lester, 248, 322, 325, 330, 359, 360
Graves, Lem, Jr., 373, 697 n 25
Gray, John, 426, 709 n 16, 713 n 46, 715 n 4
Great Britain (England), 297, 299, 304, 307, 452
1922 trip to, 47–51
1929 stay in, 608 n 38
1958–59 concerts in, 470, 471, 729 n 4–6, 731 n 16
1960 concerts in, 483
absence of racial prejudice, 87–8
“Let Robeson Sing” campaign, 424–5, 449–50, 724 n 7
see also London
Green, Cora, 52
Green, Paul, 105
Green, William, 253, 281
Gregory (now Stitt), Leonora (“Pat”), 576 n 28, 625 n 43
Grier, Christopher, 740 n 65
Gromyko, Andrei, 285
Grotewohl, Otto, 486
Gruenberg, Louis, 111
Gruening, Martha, 613 n 33
Guest, Barbara, 609 n 8
Guillén, Nicolás, 215–16, 218, 640 n 8
Guinier, Ewart, 324, 680 n 12
Guitry, Sacha, 157
Gwinn, Walton W., 373
Hagen, Uta, 264, 265, 268, 269, 271–2, 273, 275–8 284, 286–91, 292, 311–13, 549, 664 n 43, n 47, 667 n 9, n 14, n 17, n 19, 668 n 21, 676 n 38
relationship with PR, 286–8, 290–1, 311–13
on Othello tour (1944), 288–90
Hagerty, James C., 370
Haggard, H. Rider, 169, 207
Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill)
London production of, 148–9, 616 n 50
Haiti (Du Bois), 226
Haitian revolution, plans for play or film about, 190, 194, 196–7, 633 n 25, 634 n 32
Haldane, Charlotte, 215, 639 n 2, 640 n 9
Haldane, J.B.S., 215
Hale, Ruth (Mrs. Heywood Broun), 69, 74, 86, 102
Hall, Gus, 531, 757 n 23
Hallinan, Vincent, 399, 405, 532
Hambro, Leonid, 369
Hamilton College, 238
Hamlet, 88
Hammer-British Lion Productions, 207
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 111, 114, 195–6, 228, 285, 605 n 14, 697 n 28
see also Show Boat (musical)
Hammett, Dashiell, 338, 430
Hammond, Gwen, 614 n 38
Hammond, John H., 177, 295, 683 n 37
Hammond, Percy, 103–4, 159, 588 n 51
Hampden, Walter, 56, 78
Hanau, Stella, 79
Handy, W.C., 285
Hann, Will, 52
Hansberry, Lorraine, 425, 524, 527, 755 n 15, n 16
Hapgood, Emilie, 580 n 23, 582 n 23
Harambee Organization (Rutgers), 760 n 12
Hardwicke, Cedric, 207
Harlem, 32–3, 85, 162, 235, 325, 379, 390, 420
in 1919 32–3
Jumel Terrace home, 435–6, 524, 540, 542, 760 n 7
return to live in (1939), 235
St. Nicholas Avenue apartments, 426, 701 n 17
Harlem (Thurman), 61
Harlem Hospital, 33
Harlem Renaissance, 33, 72–3, 88, 105, 115, 173, 223
Harlem Shadows (McKay), 95
Harlem Suitcase Theatre, 230–1, 645 n 42
Harlem Trade Union Council, 385, 396, 702 n 22
Harmony Kings, The, 44, 47–9, 52, 118, 124
Harriman, Averell, 381, 434
Harriman, Edward H., 53
Harrington, Ollie, 379–80, 392, 518–19, 673 n 24
Harris, Frank, 95, 106
Harris, George W., 124
Harris, Jed, 138
Harris, Roy, 240
Harrison, Michael, 150, 151, 162
Hart-Davis, Rupert, 134, 143, 165, 614 n 38, 619–20 n 15, 620–1 n 20
Hartford Seminary Foundation, 292
Hastie, William H., 255, 295, 300
Hatcher, Richard G., 547
Hawaii, 327–8, 683 n 28
Hawkins, Coleman, 506
Hawtrey, Sir Charles, 49
Hayes, Arthur Garfield, 603 n 54
Hayes, Roland, xii, 49, 56, 72–4, 77, 78, 80, 81, 96, 105, 109, 110, 146, 170, 171, 636 n 50
Hayes, Rutherford B., 35
Hay Fever (Coward), 88
Hays office, 168
Hazelwood, Clifford, 318–19
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 130, 131, 609 n 8
Healey, Dorothy, 418, 419, 531, 757 n 23
Healy, Estelle, 88
Hellman, Lillian, 285, 409, 649 n 17, 654 n 5, 667 n 10
Hemingway, Ernest, 92, 640 n 12
Henderson, Fletcher, 74
Here I Stand (PR), 458–60, 465, 466, 525–6, 543, 566 n 2, 726 n 29, n 31
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 98
Herndon, Angelo, 230, 644 n 40
Herskovits, Melville, 198, 626 n 7, 635 n 36
Herter, Christian, 471, 472
Heyward, Dorothy, 106, 113, 230, 664 n 47
Heyward, DuBose, 106, 113, 193, 230, 622 n 25
Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor), 91
Higgins, Daniel, Rosalyn, and Terence, 620–1 n 20
Hill, Rev. Charles A., 398, 401, 406, 532, 673 n 26
Hille, Waldemar, 509
Hiss, Alger, 384, 387, 404
Hitler, Adolf, 233, 234, 318, 342
Hodgson, Margaret, 205
Hoggard, Bishop J. Clinton, 550, 567–9 n 5, n 9, n 15
Holiday, Billie, 283, 667 n 9
Hollywood Ten, 338, 527
Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, 33, 295, 366
Holt, Harold, 222, 680 n 11
Holt (Ray), Nora, 74, 91
Holtby, Winifred, 205
Homolka, Oscar, 132
Hoover, J. Edgar, 253–4, 254, 280, 317, 319, 320, 327–8, 337, 364, 366, 376, 388, 394, 410, 439, 454, 479, 522, 725 n 21; see also Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Hopkins, Harry, 305
Hopper, Hedda, 317
Horne, Cora, 574 n 17
Horne, Lena, 284, 673 n 23, 675 n 31
Horner, Arthur, 228
Hotel Workers Union, 249
Hough, Richard, 619 n 9
Houghton, Stanley, 614 n 35
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 317–18, 336, 359, 361–2, 363, 391, 439–42, 702 n 25
1949 hearings in response to PR’s “unpatriotic” statements, 359–62; 693 n 58
PR subpoenaed to appear before, 439–43
Houston, Charles H., 344, 377
Howard, Charles P., 321, 328, 333, 347, 348, 357, 508
Howard, Perry, 384
Howard University, 294
Hudgins, Johnny, 109, 116
Huerta, Dolores, 547
Hughes, Elinor, 276
Hughes, Langston, 98, 170, 198, 204, 228, 230, 231, 374, 569 n 15, 588 n 51, 590 n 13, 605 n 20, 612 n 27, 613 n 32, 639–40 n 7, 643 n 31, 645 n 42, 662 n 33, 663 n 38, 667 n 18, 669 n 28, 674 n 26, 708–9 n 15, 743 n 8, 746 n 25
Hughes, Richard, 124
Hull, Henry, 83
Hungary, 461
1959 stopover in, 480
Soviet invasion of (1956), 443–4, 480, 721 n 34
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