Hunter, Alberta, 109, 114, 118, 143, 604 n 13
Hunton, Alphaeus, 257–8, 322, 331, 347, 349, 350, 354, 355, 383, 652 n 34, 670 n 6, 683 n 37, 686 n 15, 688 n 31, 690–1 n 47, 717 n 12, 734 n 33, 756 n 20
Hurok, Sol, 438
Hurston, Zora Neale, 82, 170, 591 n 15, 595 n 36, 601 n 43
Hurwitt, Claire (“Micki”), 514–16, 749 n 40, n 44, 750 n 49, 751 n 50
Hurwitt, Elliott, 514, 517
Hurwitz, Leo, 261, 657 n 64
Hutchinson, Leslie, 116, 118, 152, 617 n 62
Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 603 n 3, 638 n 65, 666 n 5
Huxley, Aldous, 612 n 26
Hylan, John F. (mayor of New York), 58, 63
Hyman, Earle, 664 n 45
Hynes, John B. (mayor of Boston), 391
Ibarruri, Dolores (La Pasionaria), 219
In Abraham’s Bosom (Green), 105
India, 235, 243, 248, 266, 299, 300, 398, 461–2, 471–2, 473–4, 727 n 37, 728–9 n 40, 732 n 27
Indian National Congress, 225
Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), 205
Ingraham, Mack, 405
Ingram, Rex, 600 n 30
Internal Security Act, see McCarran Act
International Brigade, 217–18, 227, 228
International Committee on African Affairs, 210
International Labor Defense organization, 187
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), 311, 366, 676 n 34
International Workers Order, 250
Ivens, Joris, 518
Jack, Hulan, 392
Jackman, Harold, 162, 591 n 16, 637 n 52
Jackson, James, 258, 422
Jackson, William, 143, 619 n 15
Jackson, Yolande, 143–4, 149, 151–5, 157–8, 162–5, 166, 171, 242, 286, 288, 294, 614 n 38, 619–20 n 15, 620 n 18, n 20
chauffeur incident, 164
continuing involvement with (1932–50), 164–5
marriage plans called off by, 163, 166, 171
Jagan, Cheddi, 451, 465, 501, 547, 724 n 12
Jagan, Janet, 451, 724 n 12
Jamaica, 224, 235, 336
James, C.L.R., 171, 194, 196–8, 202, 547, 634 n 33, 637 n 52
Jamison, James L., 12
Jamison School, 12
Javits, Jacob, 373, 379
jazz, 176–7, 351, 625 n 46
Jelliffe, Bea, 590 n 11
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 578 n 12, 590 n 11
Jenkins, Clarence (“Little Fat”), 22
Jenkins, Harold (“Legs”), 22
Jenkins, Sue, 87
Jericho (film), 209, 210, 638 n 63
Jernagin, W. H., 377, 674 n 28
Jet (magazine), 415
Jewish Women’s Committee, 82
Jews, 11, 121, 133, 172, 301, 353, 493, 610 n 15
in Nazi Germany, 178, 626 n 48
in the Soviet Union, 352–4, 711–12 n 29, 735 n 44
Jew Süss, 134, 610 n 16
Jim Crow, 3, 251, 256, 266, 288–9, 296, 325, 360, 361, 387, 392, 415, 431, 446, 681 n 21, 714 n 47
“Joe Hill,” 468, 550
John Henry (Bradford), 228, 237–8, 647–8 n 11
Johnny Strikes Up the Band (Jonny Spielt Auf) (opera), 111
Johnson, Agnes Christine, 604 n 10
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 198–9, 360
Johnson, Edward A., 124
Johnson, Edwin C., 397
Johnson, Ellsworth (“Bumpy”), 312, 666 n 8, 676 n 36, 695 n 17
Johnson, Grace Nail, 70–1, 72, 73, 80, 100, 147
Johnson, Rev. Hewlett, 253
Johnson, Howard (“Stretch”), 258, 368, 409, 416, 420, 666 n 8
Johnson, Jack, 103, 145
Johnson, James Weldon, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74, 80, 81, 83, 90, 100, 105, 111, 137, 147, 159, 172, 173, 580 n 22, 607 n 36
Johnson, Rev. John, 324
Johnson, Joseph L., 377, 682 n 21, 698 n 36, 704 n 38
Johnson, J. Rosamond, 73, 81, 219, 622 n 25
Johnson, Len, 424
Johnson, Lyndon, 485
Johnson, Manning, 359, 440, 692 n 57
Johnson, Mordecai, 305
Johnson, Robert D., 450
Johnstone, Tandy, 88–9, 115, 116, 118
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, 321, 430
Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 307–8
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, 341, 378, 406
Jolson, Al, 102
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston), 170
Jones, Allan, 196
Jones, Claudia, 465, 479, 527, 755 n 15
Jones, James Earl, 279, 547
Jones, J. Raymond, 392
Jones, Mary Helen, 425–6, 442, 531
Jones, Robert Edmond, 55, 138, 275, 580 n 23
Jones, Roderick, 232
Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up the Band) (opera), 111
Josephson, Barney, 284
“Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho,” 80
Joyce, James, 92, 106, 109
Julius Caesar, 13
Jumel Terrace home, 435–6, 524, 540, 542, 760 n 7
Kahn, Albert, 388, 482–3
Kahn, Otto, 52–3, 69, 73–6, 79, 83–5, 89–9O, 119–20, 121, 597–8 n 14, 606 n 30
Kalsoun, Om, 209
Kapp, Yvonne, 638 n 67
Katanga Freedom Fighters, 333
Katanian, Vasily, 468–70, 478, 730 n 11, n 12, 113, n 14, 733 n 29, 762 n 15
Katzenstein, Alfred, 514, 516–19, 520, 521, 534, 750 n 49, 751 n 50, 752 n 51, 753 n 56, n 57, 758 n 31
Kaufman, Milton, 678 n 5
Kaye, Lt. Conrad, 219
Kazakov, Ignaty N., 221, 641 n 17
Kean, Edmund, 274
Kearney, Bernard W. (representative), 360–1, 441
Kennedy, John F., 485, 492, 737 n 52
Kent, Rockwell, 285, 388, 406, 452–3, 463, 469
Kent, Sally, 469
Kenya, 333, 405, 415, 424; see also Kenyatta, Jomo
Kenyatta, Jomo, 171, 179, 180, 198, 480, 492, 626 n 54, 740 n 67
Kern, Jerome, 114, 196
see also Show Boat (musical)
Kern, Paul J., 382
Kershaw, Leslie, 14, 571 n 27
Kerson, Larry, 750 n 49
Khrushchev, Nikita, 416–17, 423, 429, 437, 460, 470, 473, 527, 731 n 14, 736 n 44
Kibbee, Guy, 239
Kiev, Ari, 533–5, 536, 751 n 50, 758 n 39
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 522
King, Coretta Scott, 547, 549
King, Dennis, 159
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 447, 448, 484, 505, 543, 745 n 16
“King Joe,” 177, 626 n 47
King Solomon’s Mines (film), 202, 207, 637 n 54
Kinzell, Jack, 402
Kirghiz, 187
Kirstein, Lincoln, 73, 590–1 n 13
Klein, Robert, 610 n 13
Kline, Nathan S., 532–3, 535, 537, 757 n 28
Knickerbocker, Cholly, 415
Knight, Frances G., 480
Knopf, Alfred, 72–4, 79, 102, 118, 121, 137, 139, 195, 590 n 13, 596 n 45, 606 n 36, 664 n 44, 748 n 38
Knopf, Blanche, 73, 79, 102, 103
Koiransky, 660 n 20
Kolodin, Irving, 728 n 38
Korda, Alexander and Zoltán, 178–9, 180, 181
Korean War, 383, 387–8, 390, 391, 397, 404
Kotov, Mikhail, 496, 513, 542
Kouka, Princess, 210
Krenek, Ernst, 111
Krimsky, John, 618–19 n 9, 621–2 n 25
Kronenberger, Louis, 265, 278
Kropf, Howard, 81–2
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 65
Krylenko, Eliena, 95
Ku Klux Klan, 76, 305, 318, 326, 382, 387, 430, 433, 446, 668 n 20, 697 n 27
labor unions (labor movement), 249–50, 255–6, 309, 457, 652 n 36; see also under individual unions, and black caucuses
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 203
Lafayette Players, 57
Lafay
ette Theater, 56, 57
La Guardia, Fiorello, 253, 267, 299
Lamont, Corliss, 388, 405, 728 n 39
Landau, Lil, 755 n 14
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 282–3
Lane, Thomas J., 358
Langner, Lawrence, 79, 88, 89, 240, 280
Laski, Harold, 225, 234, 671 n 14
LaTouche, John, 236, 237
Lattimore, Owen, 404
Law, Oliver, 217, 227
Lawson, John Howard, 107, 396, 526–7
Layton, Turner, 88–9, 118
League of Coloured Peoples, 624 n 38, 628 n 59
Leavin’ Time (Cullen), 622–3 n 27
Leavis, F. R., 664 n 45
Lebon, Philip, 511
Lee, Arthur, 69–70
Lee, Canada, 285, 334
Lee, Jennie, 466
Lehman, Herbert H., 392
Leslie, Lew, 52
Lester, Edwin, 239, 648 n 15
“Let Robeson Sing” campaign (Great Britain), 424–5, 449–50, 724 n 7
Lev, Ray, 369
Levin, Barnard, 729 n 2
Levine, Isaac Don, 592 n 18
Lewenstein, Oscar, 492
Lewis, Bill, 236
Lewis, Ethelreda, 205, 636 n 50
Lewis, John, 528, 540
Lewis, Sinclair, 72
Lewis, Theophilus, 57
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 64
Leyda, Jay, 188, 630 n 11, 631 n 14, 742 n 1
Leys, Norman, 199–202, 205, 635 n 37, 636 n 50
Liberator, The (magazine), 95, 529
Lifanov, Galya and Boris, 497
Life (magazine), 43, 370, 391–2
Liggins, Marian, 568 n 12
Light, James (Jimmy), 59, 60, 62, 63, 75, 83, 86–8, 90, 99, 132, 135, 137, 148, 163, 240
Lightfoot, Claude, 429, 542–3
Lightfoot, Jimmy, 33, 41
Lincoln Brigade, 217; see also International Brigade
Lincoln University, 17, 34, 566 n 2, 577 n 7
Lippmann, Walter, 253
Little Carib Theater, 336
Litvinov, Ivy, 186, 629 n 6, 659 n 12
Litvinov, Maxim, 186, 253, 423, 629 n 6
Liveright, Horace, 103, 596 n 2
Locke, Alain, 100, 170, 243
Loesser, Diana, 424, 425, 486, 514, 518, 722 n 37, 738 n 55
Loesser, Franz, 424, 486, 514, 518, 722 n 37
Logan, Rayford W., 377
Lomax, Almena, 449
Lombard, Carole, 196
London
1925 trip to, 86–91
Emperor Jones, The, 89–91
friends and socializing, 88, 91
lodging, 87
restaurants, lack of prejudice at, 87–8
1928–29 stay in, 113–24
1939 departure from, 232
1958 trip to, 463–7
absence of racial prejudice, 87–8
plans to stage Voodoo (formerly Taboo) in, 44, 48
racial prejudice in, 123–4, 607–8 n 38
Show Boat in, 113–15, 117, 120
sixtieth-birthday celebration events (1958), 461
Lonsdale, Freddie, 88
Lorchard, Julia, 456
Lorchard, Metz, 456
Loree, Leonor, 589 n 3
Los Angeles, 1949 concert in, 376–7
Louis, Joe, 177, 195, 227, 295, 684 n 43
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 17, 104, 166, 182, 190, 194
C.L.R. James play about, 194, 196–7
“Loyalty—Lost and Found” (ER), 691 n 49
Lucas, Grant, 39, 102, 147, 148, 150
Lucy, Autherine, 444
Lulu Belle (musical), 83, 102
Lumumba, Patrice, 492, 496
Luria, Alexander, 187–8
Lurie, Lee, 539, 542, 762 n 17
lynchings, 4, 31, 305–7
MacDonald, Ramsay, 124
Macgowan, Kenneth, 55, 580–2 n 23, 585 n 19
Macpherson, Kenneth, 130, 131, 609 n 7
Madden, Anthony, 65
Madden, Richard J., 77, 78
Mailliard, William S., 522
Maisky, Ivan, 191, 423, 631 n 16
Malcolm X, 267, 527–8, 549, 754 n 8, 755–6 n 16
Maleissy, Count de, 94
Malik, Jacob, 397
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 633 n 28
Mallon, George B., 82–3
Malraux, André, 417
Manley, Michael, 547, 628 n 59, 685 n 1
Manley, Norman, 431
Mannin, Ethel, 118, 610 n 13, n 16, 615 n 45
Mantle, Burns, 58, 64, 104, 582 n 24, 588 n 51, 601 n 45
Maoris, 489, 490
Maran, René, 74, 424, 591 n 15
Marcantonio, Vito, 107, 249, 285, 338, 347, 366, 373, 426, 675 n 33, 692 n 51, 701 n 20, 714 n 47
March on Washington (1963), 516
Marine Cooks and Stewards Union, 311, 399
Marinoff, Fania (Mrs. Carl Van Vechten), 73, 74, 79, 80, 84, 86, 87, 89, 90, 93, 94, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 118, 127, 131, 137, 145, 147, 151, 154, 157, 161, 170, 179, 185, 191, 195, 198, 209, 229–30, 246, 293, 614 n 38
Marley, James, 123, 124
Marshall, Armina, 89
Marshall, George (economist), 430
Marshall, George C., 321
Marshall, Herbert, 223, 492, 642 n 23, 742 n 3
Marshall, Larkin, 327
Marshall, Margaret, 278
Marshall, William, 662 n 34
Martin, Ajay, 318
Martin, Josephine, 742 n 2
Mason, Mayne S., 21
Mathews, Burnita S., 433, 434
Matisse, Madame, 92
Matthews, J. B., 239
Matthews, Z. K., 198
Maxwell, Elsa, 93, 94
Mayfield, Julian, 746 n 25
Mays, Benjamin E., 267, 324, 717 n 12
McBurnie, Beryl, 336
McCarran Act, 328, 388, 424, 440, 510
McCarthy, Joseph, 384, 387, 404, 405, 412–13, 415, 429
McCarthy committee (Senate Investigating Committee), ER at hearings of, 412–13
McClendon, Rose, 57
McCormack, John, 105
McDaniel, Hattie, 203, 261
McDaniels, James, 401
McGee, Willie, 387, 396, 397
McGhee, Bert, 75, 85–8, 229, 233, 246, 388, 411, 412, 426, 709 n 19
McGhee, Harold (“Gig”), 75, 83, 86–8, 228, 229, 246, 388, 411, 412, 426, 592 n 18, 691 n 49
McGohey, John F. X., 372
McGowan, Rev. Edward D., 410
McKay, Claude, 95–7, 159, 234–5, 600 n 24, n 26, n 27, n 28, n 29, n 30
McKenzie, Marjorie, 345–6
McKinney, Nina Mae, 181
McManus, John T., 430
McMillan, “Bo,” 34
McPhail, Larry, 283
McStay, Janetta, 738 n 60
Medina, Harold, 53, 338, 363, 372, 379
Mehta (Indian ambassador), 461–2
Mei Lan-fang, 198
Meisner, Sanford, 272, 278, 661 n 25, 664 n 43
Melish, Rev. William Howard, 443
Mencken, H. L., 74
Menelik, 166, 169
Menjou, Adolphe, 676 n 36, 724 n 7
Menon, V. K. Krishna, 225, 340, 471, 642 n 27
Menorah Journal, 172
Menuhin, Yehudi, 481
Merlin, Frank, 622–3 n 27
Messenger, The (newspaper), 71, 72, 342
Metropolitan Opera, 53, 82
Micheaux, Oscar, 77, 260, 593 n 24
Middleton, Peggy, 461, 465, 471, 481, 511, 513, 514, 542, 748 n 32, n 37, 749 n 39–41, 751 n 50, 759 n 44
Middleton, Ray, 237
Mikhailov, 467, 469, 470
Mikhoels, Solomon, 190, 352–4, 631 n 14, 690 n 42
Mikoyan, Anastas J., 730 n 14
Miller, Anna, 13, 17
Miller, Gilbert, 138
Mills, Florence, 52, 83, 584 n 11
Milwaukee Badgers, 34
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 399, 400, 437; see als
o labor unions
Minor, Robert, 216, 219, 237
Miravitlles, Jaume, 219
Mitchell, Abbie, 48, 105
Mitchell, Charlene, 542–3
Mitchell, H. L., 259
Molnár, Ferenc, 610 n 13
Monk, Thelonius, 177, 425
Monks, James, 273
Montagu, Ivor, 424, 498, 687 n 17
Montesole, Max, 134, 136, 611 n 24, 613 n 35
Monteux, Pierre, 128
Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, 447, 722 n 2
Moody, Harold, 624 n 38, 628 n 59
Moody, Ronald, 624 n 38
Moon, Henry Lee, 385
Moore, Archie, 454, 725 n 18
Moore, Bessie, 29, 567 n 5, 576 n 29
Moore, Christine, 567 n 5, 576 n 29
Moore, John Bassett, 53
Moore (senator), 328, 330
Morehouse College, 267
Morford, Richard, 388, 699 n 1
Morgan, Edward P., 720 n 31
Morgan, Helen, 159, 196, 239, 648 n 15
Moroka, James, 637 n 51
Morrison, Herbert, 213–14
Moscow Art Theatre, 116
Mosee, Elmer, 677 n 39, 678 n 2
Moseley, Chuck, 530, 762 n 17
Moses, Bob, 528
Moss, Carlton, 250
Mossell, Gertrude Bustill, 5, 8
Mossell, Nathan F., 5, 566–7 n 2, n 3
Mostel, Zero, 285
Moten, Etta (Barnett), 615 n 45, 668 n 20, 732 n 18
Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, 10
1958 concert in, 462–3, 728 n 38
PR’s move into parsonage of, 426–8
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, 376
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 160–1, 617 n 62, 618–19 n 9, 727 n 37
Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 160–1, 618 n 9
Movement for Colonial Freedom, 479
Muhammad, Elijah, 528
Mulatto (Hughes), 662–3 n 38
Mundt-Nixon Bill, 328–30, 337, 390, 687 n 16
Munro, Norma Leslie, 632 n 20
Murphy, Carl, 471, 665 n 47, 693 n 61, 711 n 25
Murphy, Dudley, 168, 223, 621 n 25
Murphy, George B., Jr., 326, 401, 426, 447, 457–8, 460, 524, 674 n 28, 709 n 17, 711 n 25, 727 n 32, 753 n 56, 754 n 7
Murphy, Harvey, 400
Murray, Henry A. (Harry), 34–5, 37–8, 570 n 16, 577–8 n 8
Murray, Philip, 357
Muse, Clarence, 168, 260
Mussolini, Benito, 133, 195, 234, 248
My Life and Loves (Harris), 95
My Song Goes Forth (film), 202, 203, 636 n 45
Nachtigall, Richard, 536–7, 758 n 41, n 42
Naison, Mark, 652 n 37
Nance, Ethel Ray, 757 n 27
narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 11–12
Nash, Robert, 21
Nathan, George Jean, 56, 64–5, 74, 77, 103–4, 602 n 46, 664 n 44
Nathan, Otto, 484
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 4, 56, 248, 285, 294–5, 299–301, 305–7, 319, 322–3, 334, 347–9, 359, 362, 376, 385, 396, 413, 448, 484, 528, 669 n 28, 674 n 26, 679 n 5, 681 n 19, n 20, 711 n 27
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