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education in the Soviet Union, 205–11, 221, 641 n 18
final years of PR’s life and, 539–50
access to PR, 544–6
funeral tribute, 550
living together at Jumel Terrace home, 540, 541
money matters, 313
mother’s illness and (1965), 535–7
organizing PR’s seventy-fifth birthday tribute, 546
professional difficulties, 408
PR’s attempted suicide and, 498–500
PR’s depression and, 503–6, 509, 535, 537, 540, 744–5 n 12, 747 n 27
wedding, 355–8, 691 n 49
during World War II, 238
Robeson, Reeve (Reed) (brother), 5, 184–5, 567 n 4, 568 n 14
Robeson, Susan (granddaughter), 408, 464, 478, 524, 538
Robeson, William Drew (father), 4–11, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 30, 567 n 6, 568 n 9, 568 n 11, 569 n 15, n 16, 570 n 17
attitude toward whites, 11, 18
background of, 4–5
death of, 25
between parish positions, 9
as pastor in Princeton, 6–8, 568 n 11
as pastor in Somerville, 9–10, 569 n 16
as pastor in Westfield, 9, 569 n 15
personal characteristics of, 5, 6, 8–11
relationship to PR, 8, 10
Robeson, William Drew, Jr. (brother), 5, 14, 17, 32, 567 n 4, 568 n 14
Robeson Sings (album), 408–9
Robinson, Avery, 79
Robinson, Bill, 203, 667 n 18
Robinson, Earl, 236, 237, 240, 327, 485, 526, 528, 647 n 9, 655 n 54, 668 n 21, 705 n 42
Robinson, Elmer E., 402
Robinson, Jackie, 283, 360–2, 363, 441, 506, 666 n 7, 755 n 16
Robinson, Robert, 188–9, 629 n 3, 630 n 12, 637 n 53, 735–6 n 44
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 394, 703 n 32
Robson, Flora, 167, 265, 449, 482, 492, 543, 549, 621 n 24, 626 n 54, 637 n 55, 661 n 24, 724 n7, 741 n 67
Rockmore, Bess (later Eitingon), 55, 162, 623 n 27, 747 n 28
Rockmore, Bob, 55, 148, 162, 163, 165, 233, 239, 245, 277, 291, 299, 300, 354, 365, 443, 480, 483, 506, 508, 509, 640 n 15, 649 n 21, 664 n 47, 672 n 17, 678 n 2, 685 n 2, 731 n 18, 745 n 15, 747 n 28, 750 n 49
death of, 511–12
and Eslanda Robeson, 246, 292, 293, 313–15, 412, 501, 504, 651 n 31, 677 n 41
as PR’s lawyer and business advisor, 228, 242, 257, 403, 409, 411, 707 n 5, 709–10 n 19, 714–15 n 48, 753 n 6
Rockmore, Clara, 243–5, 267, 291, 292, 299, 365, 489, 491, 492, 493–4, 501, 504, 506, 508, 509, 511–12, 544, 549, 748 n 34
Rogers, Charles, 122
Rogers, J. A., 114–15, 361, 433, 523, 662 n 35
Rogge, O. John, 696 n 22
Rolfs, Ted, 646 n 47, 701 n 17, 710 n 19
Romilly, Rita, 163, 312–13
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 240, 251–2, 259, 356, 361, 374, 384, 656 n 59, 663 n 40, 667 n 10, 669 n 26, 697 n 29, 703 n 26
cancellation of appearance by PR on television show of, 384–5
Roosevelt, Elliott, 384
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 254–5, 258, 266, 291, 293–4, 297, 305, 342, 485
Roosevelt, Theodore, 4
Roseanne (Stevens), 56–7
Rosen, Helen, 339–40, 384, 411, 412, 413–14, 417, 418, 426, 428, 435, 464, 475, 478, 481, 482, 483, 484, 489, 500–4, 505, 506, 508, 511, 512, 514, 517, 519, 520, 530, 535, 538, 539, 544, 545, 548, 549, 550, 567 n 4, 568 n 13, 686 n 9, 694 n 4, n 5, n 7, 735 n 42, n 44, 736 n 44, 746 n 25, 753 n 57, 753–4 n 6, 756 n 16,
and China, 384, 760 n 5
at Peekskill (1949), 364–6, 368–9, 371
relationship with PR, 339, 407–8
at PR’s deathbed, 548
and PR’s illnesses
1956, 438, 717–18 n 14, 733 n 33
1961, 494–6, 501–6, 748 n 32, 749 n 40
Rosen, John, 365, 366, 407
Rosen (Ruben), Judy, 365, 407, 408, 413, 511
Rosen, Sam, 339, 364–6, 371, 384, 407, 407–8, 411, 412, 426, 464, 475, 478, 481, 482, 489, 496, 500, 501, 502, 505, 506, 508, 511, 517, 530, 530, 536–7, 539, 544, 545, 548, 549, 550, 695–6 n 20, 717 n 14, 747 n 28
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 404
Ross, Sydney, 138
Rover, Leo A., 433, 434
Rowan, Carl T., 460, 727 n 32
Ruark, Robert C., 391, 393–4, 464
Rubinstein, Annette, 390, 675 n 33, 682 n 26, 717 n 13
Rudd, Wayland, 628 n 59, 629 n 3, 662 n 34
Ruff, Willie, 740 n 65
Ruiz, Cristobal, 220
Russell, Julia Theresa, 77
Russia, see Soviet Union
Rustin, Bayard, 238, 343, 344, 345, 390, 549, 688 n 23, 761 n 14
Rutgers College, PR at, 19–30, 76, 161, 542, 543, 547, 572 n, 619 n, 760 n 8, n 12, 763 n 21
academic achievements at, 24, 573 n 16
Cap and Skull honor society, 26
Commencement oration by PR, 26–7, 575 n 24
debating team, 24
football team, 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, n 7
glee club, 24, 574 n
honorary degree to PR, 161, 619 n 11
Philoclean (Literary Society), 24
political and social views of PR while at, 25–9
racism at, 20–1, 24–5, 573–4 n 16
return to (1929), 125
romance with Gerry Neale while at, 28–30
room assignments at, 573–4 n 16
scholarship to, 17, 574 n 17
senior thesis of PR, 25–6
sports other than football, 22, 576 n 27
student center, 543, 760 n 12
Sabath, Adolph, 305
Sacco and Vanzetti case, 106–7
Sachs, Hanns, 130
Sadler, Homer, 530
St. Christopher basketball team, 22, 32, 56, 573 n 9
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 471
St. Philip’s Protestant Episcopal church, 82
St. Thomas A.M.E. Zion Church (Somerville), 9–10, 569 n 16
Salemmé, Antonio (Tony), 68–70, 72, 80, 86, 589 n 1, n 2, n 3, n 4, 590 n 11
Salemmé, Betty Hardy, 68, 70, 80, 86
Salvation Nell (Sheldon), 83
Samoyeds, 188
Sanborn, Pitts, 162, 608 n 41
Sandburg, Carl, 81
Sanders of the River (film), 178–82, 626 n 50, n 53, n 54, n 56, 627 n 58
Sanders of the River (Wallace), 178, 182
Sanford, G. Foster, 20–4, 34, 52, 144–5, 572–3 n 8
Sanford, G. Foster, Jr., 21, 22, 34, 145, 572 n 8
San Francisco Sun Reporter, 444
Saturday Review, The (London), 90
Savage, Augusta, 82
Savoy Ballroom, 177
Saxton, Eugene F., 617–18 n 3
Scales, Junius, 258, 709 n 18
“Scandalize My Name,” 80, 352
Schachtman, Max, 432
Schang, Fred, 238, 239
Schatzkammer, William (“Willie”), 659 n 12, 672 n 17
Scherer, Gordon, 440
Schieffelin, William Jay, 331
Schirmer, Robert, 92
Schlamme, Martha, 530
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 324
Schnabel, Stefan, 268, 269
Schomburg, Arthur A., 159, 191, 637 n 52
Schuyler, George, 333, 687 n 22
Scottsboro boys, 158, 187, 387, 629 n 7; see also Patterson, Haywood
Seattle
1952 concert in, 400–2
Smith Act defendants in, 411
Seeger, Pete, 369, 438, 528, 547, 695 n 16, 702 n 25, 761 n 12
segregation, see racism Senate Judiciary Committee, 1948
hearings, 328–30
, 683 n 31
Seroity, Jean, 683 n 28
Seton, Marie, 160–1, 163, 182, 183, 184, 186–7, 205, 221, 226, 237, 351, 387, 416, 448, 471, 516, 568–9 n 14, 571 n 30, 614 n 38, 619–20 n 15, 627 n 28, 731–2 n 18, 742 n 3
Seyler, Athene, 91, 118
Shabazz, Betty, 549
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon)
offer to act in (1957), 451–2
Shapley, Harlow, 317
Shaw, George Bernard, 191, 234, 386
Shaw, Glen Byam, 451–3, 463, 465, 466, 475
Sheean, Jimmy, 648 n 11
Sheldon, Edward (Ned), 83, 570 n 16, 595 n 38
Shelton, Sadie Goode Davenport, 27, 575 n 25, 667 n 16
Sherman, Robert, 544, 545
Shield, Frederick K., 16–17
Shirley, Don, 177
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 690 n 42
Show Boat (film), 194–6, 203–4, 636 n 48
Show Boat (musical)
1932 revival of, 157–9, 161, 163
1940 revival, 239
black views of, 114–15
London production of (1928), 113–15, 117, 120, 604 n 13
New York production of, 116
Shuffle Along (musical), 44–5, 49, 52, 582 n 27, n 28
Shumyatsky, Boris, 182–3, 190, 630–1 n 14
Shute, Nerina, 122
Sibley, Mrs. Harper, 307
Si-lan Chen (Leyda), 188, 631 n 15, 742 n 1
Silvers, Earl Reed, 20–1
Silverstone, Ruby, 531, 532
Simon the Cyrenian (Torrence), 43, 580 n 22, n 23
Simkins, Modjeska, 688 n 24
Sims, Frankie Lee, 530, 537, 757 n 22, n 23
Sims, George, 757 n 22, n 23
Since Lenin Died (Eastman), 95
Singh, J.J., 300
Sissle, Noble, 52, 716 n 6
Škvorecký, Josef, 351, 689 n 38
Smith, Albert, 159
Smith, Anna Bustill, 566 n 3
Smith, Bessie, 177, 584 n 11
Smith, Ferdinand, 385
Smith, Homer, 630 n 12
Smith, Jessica, 524
Smith Act defendants, 397, 411, 420, 425, 709 n 18
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), 485, 528, 540, 543
Snezhnevsky, Dr. 498–9
Sobolev, A., 461
Socialist Workers Party, 382
Sokolsky, George E., 320, 406
Somerville, New Jersey, 12–14, 570 n 21, n 23
Somerville High School, 12–17
Sommers, Diane, 670 n 6
Song of Freedom (film), 202, 204, 636 n 45, n 48
South Africa, 205, 206, 235, 297, 333, 340, 460, 479, 636 n 49, n 50 673 n 23
Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW), 259
Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC), 258, 320–1
Southern Syncopated Orchestra, 49
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization (Sidney and Beatrice Webb), 198
Soviet Union, 95, 162, 282, 294
1934–35 trip to, 182–90, 627–8 n 59
1936–37 trip to, 208–9
1936 vacation in, 205, 206, 637 n 53
1937 summer visit to, 210–11
1949 visit to, 352–3, 690 n 42
1958–59 trips to, 467–70, 473–5, 728 n 40, 730 n 7–14
1960 stay in, 482
1961 trip to, 496–7
overcoat incident during flight, 498, 741 n 1
anti-Semitism in, 353–4
PR on, 690 n 43, 711–12 n 29, 736 n 44
black Americans in, 185, 188–9, 468;
Russian culture and, 175, 629 n 4
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, 303–4
collectivization, 208–9
Constitution, Article, 123, 211
election of 1948 and, 325
in Here I Stand (PR), 458
Hungary, invasion of, 443–4
Jews in, 352–4, 711–12 n 29, 735 n 44; see also Feffer, Itzik; Mikhoels, Solomon
Khrushchev’s revelations of Stalin’s crimes, 416–17, 437, 460
labor camps, 208–9
national minorities in, 186–8, 211, 282, 354, 630 n 9
see also Uzbekistan; Yakuts
nonaggression pact with Hitler, 231–2
purge trials, 221, 308, 417, 506, 641 n 17
PR’s views on
1945, 297, 300
1950s, 415–19, 711 n 29
1960s, 505–6, 512–13, 742 n 3, 748 n 37, 750 n 48, 760 n 5
PR, Jr.,’s education in, 205–11, 221, 633 n 26, 641 n 18
World War II and, 232–5, 252–3
Finland, invasion of, 234–5, 239
Spain
1938 trip to, 215–20
absence of racial prejudice in, 219–20, 639 n 7
Spanish Civil War, 210–20
black volunteers in, 217, 639 n 7
rallies and benefit concerts, 210–14, 227–8, 643 n 31
reasons for going to Spain, 216
Spencer, Mrs. Niles, 70
Spencer, Niles, 70
Spingarn, Arthur, 117, 300
Spingarn, Joel, 295
Spingarn Medal, 295, 299–301
spirituals, see Robeson, Paul: concerts and recitals
Spook Sonata, The (Strindberg), 56
Spottswood, Bishop Stephen Gill, 377, 428
S.S. Glencairn (O’Neill), 75
Stachel, Jack, 420
Stalin, Joseph, 186, 190, 208–9, 221, 234, 382, 383, 406, 407, 416–17, 437, 460, 506
nonaggression pact with Hitler, 231–2
Stalin Peace Prize, 406, 707 n 5
Stallings, Laurence, 64, 74
Stansgate, Viscount, 465, 466
State Department, U.S., see Robeson, Paul: travel restrictions
Staton, Nettie, 6
“Steal Away,” 80
Stebbins, Robert, 181
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 612 n 26
Steichen, Edward, 103
Stein, Gertrude, 73, 92–3, 94, 106, 109, 110, 112, 118, 596 n 45, 598 n 15, n 16, n 17, 603 n 2, 642 n 20
Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry), 657 n 65
Stern, G. B., 94
Stettheimer, Ettie, 83
Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 297, 298, 305
Stevedore (play), 191, 192–3, 632 n 21
Stevens, Hope R., 528
Stevens, Nan Bagby, 56
Stevenson, Adlai, 404, 444
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 285
Still, William Grant, 240
Stockholm, 461
1949 concert in, 349, 689 n 34
Stokes, Alvin, 359
Stokes, Anson Phelps, 652–3 n 39
Stokowski, Leopold, 591 n 15
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 53
Storck, Donald, 22, 25
Stotesbury, Louis William, 54–5
Strachey, John, 221
Straight, Dorothy, 607 n 36
Straight, Michael, 682 n 22
Strand, Paul, 261
Strauss, Leon, 369, 390
Stravinsky, Igor, 115–16, 177
Streeter’s Chinese Restaurant, 32
Strindberg, August, 56
Strong, Anna Louise, 540–1
Strong, Edward E., 258, 317–18
Strout, Richard L., 377–8
Stuckey, Sterling, 575 n 24
Sullivan, Noel, 612 n 27
Sumner, Charles, 35
Sumner, Gene, 577 n7
Sumner, Minnie, 41, 42, 74, 85, 86, 101, 103, 147, 187, 233, 245, 669 n 24, 691 n 49, 705 n 38
Sun Yat-sen, 188
Susskind, David, 528
Swaffer, Hannen, 234, 610 n 16, 611 n 24, 647 n 2
Swahili, 174
Taboo (later renamed Voodoo) (Wiborg), 43–5, 48–53, 58, 581–2 n 23, 583 n 5, 584 n 8
Tadzhiks, 187
Taft, William H., 4
Taft-Hartley Act, 321, 322
Tairov, Alexander, 188
Tales of Manhattan (film), 259–62, 656 n 61, 657 n 62
Tambo, Oliver, 341, 543
Tatler, The, 90
Taylor, Alexander (“Ting”), 567 n 4
Taylor, Bill, 531
Taylor, “Shag,” 85–6
Teachers Normal School (Trenton), 28, 29
Tearle, Godfrey, 89
Teichner, Helmut, 162
Tenney Committee, 307–9, 318
Tennyson, Pen, 231, 646 n 43
Terkel, Studs, 291
Terrell, Mary Church, 324, 348–9, 377, 398, 711 n 25
Terris, Norma, 159, 239
Theatre Guild, 138, 268, 660 n 15
Theatre Union, 192
Theory and Practice of Socialism, The (Strachey), 221
Thomas, Edna, 83
Thomas, Rachel, 232–5, 729 n 5
Thompson, Ernest, 443, 703 n 32
Thompson, Louise (Patterson), 170, 375, 388, 700 n 12, 701 n 17
Thompson, Robert, 368, 379
Thorndike, Sybil, xii, 134, 135, 136, 481, 543, 729 n 1
Thorpe, Jim, 34, 584 n 11
Throckmorton, Cleon, 75, 581 n 23
Thurman, Wallace, 61
Thurmond, J. Strom, 335
Tibbett, Lawrence, 111, 125, 299, 603 n 6, 622 n 25
Tiger, Edith, 462
Timofeyevna, Raisa, 469–70
Tisse, Edward, 185
Tito, Josip Broz, 325, 381, 383
Tobias, Channing H., 295, 333, 344, 392, 681 n 16
“Today with Mrs. Roosevelt” (television show), 384–5
Toledano, Vicente Lombardo, 285
Toomer, Jean, 74
Torrence, Ridgely, 43, 61, 580 n 22
Toussaint L’Ouverture, Pierre Dominique, 17, 104, 166, 182, 190, 194, 633 n 25
Touvalou Houenou, Kojo (Prince of Dahomey), 74, 129, 590–1 n 15
Toynbee, Arnold, 624–5 n 41
Trachtenberg, Alexander, 755 n 16
trade unions, see labor unions
Transport Workers Union, 249, 303
Trask, Hooper, 132
travel restrictions on PR, see Robeson, Paul: travel restrictions
Trenton Six, 337, 397, 685 n 3, n 7
Triebel, Carl O., 318, 678 n 5
Trinidad, 336, 701 n 19
Trotter, Monroe, 26
Truman, Harry S, 296, 297, 298, 301, 303, 304, 307, 316, 321, 324, 325, 334, 335, 337, 348, 359, 363, 381, 383, 387–8, 390, 434, 676 n 39
antilynching legislation and, 307
election of 1948, 321, 324, 325, 334, 335
Korean War and, 387, 388
Truman Doctrine, 321
Trumbo, Dalton, 396
Truth, Sojourner, 357
Tubman, Harriet, 357, 367, 485
Tukhachevsky, General, 186
Tully, Jim, 103, 601 n 45
Tursunkulov, Khamrakul, 468–9
“Two Americans” (H.D.), 609 n 8
Tyler, Jerry, 706 n 44
Ulbricht, Walter, 486, 748 n 36
Uline auditorium (Washington, D.C.), 251–2
Ulric, Leonore, 83, 102
Un-American Committee, see House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)