Uncle Tom’s Cabin (later called Goodbye Uncle Tom) (ER), 154, 157, 166, 242, 292–3, 617–18 n 3
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Wright), 225
Union of South Africa, see South Africa
U Nu, 431
U.S.S.R., see Soviet Union
United Automobile Workers, 249; see also labor unions
United Electrical Workers, 366; see also labor unions
United Freedom Fund, 400, 403
United Nations, 296, 397–8, 436, 669–70 n 2, 673–4 n 26, 681 n 19, 705 n 41, 718–19 n 16
United Nations Conference (1945), 296–7, 669 n 2
United Negro and Allied Veterans of America, 426
U.S. Information Agency, 472
Unity Theatre (London), 213, 223–4, 642 n 22, n 23
Urban League, 66, 285, 330, 359
Ure, Mary, 476, 477, 543, 733 n 32
USO tour (1945), 297–8
Uzbekistan, 211, 468, 469, 638 n 66
Van Doren, Carl, 74
Van Doren, Dorothy, 605 n 14
Van Doren, Mark, 74
Vanguard records, 460, 727 n 33
Van Gyseghem, André, 167, 192, 223, 543, 549, 614 n 40, 621 n 23, 632 n 22
Vanity Fair, 82, 103
Van Vechten, Carl (Carlo), 72–4, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91–3, 94, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 106, 115, 118, 121–2, 127, 131, 137, 139, 145, 147, 151, 154, 157, 161, 170, 179, 185, 195, 198, 209, 229–30, 235, 246, 280–1, 292, 293, 356, 390, 590 n 13, 593 n 26, 593–4 n 31, 594 n 32, 596 n 45, 598 n 16, 606 n 33, 622 n 25, 637 n 55, 748 n 38
1939 failure by PR to contact, 229
on ER’s first draft for book on PR, 121–2, 606 n 33
loan from Otto Kahn to the Robesons and, 83–5
Nigger Heaven, 100
on Russian sympathies of PR, 235
PR as spirituals singer and, 78–81
Van Vechten, Fania, see Marinoff, Fania
Van Volkenburg, Ellen (Nellie), 122, 133–6, 138–9, 611 n 24
Varney, Walter K., 106, 109, 112
Vaughan, Sarah, 284
Vesey, Denmark, 230
Victor Company (records), 82, 86, 98, 236
Vietnam, 713 n 42
Villefranche, 1925 stay in, 93–7
Vinson, Carl, 337
voice, see Robeson, Paul: singing
Voodoo, see Taboo
Voroshilov, 470
Vosseller, Elizabeth, 13
Vreeland, Frank, 104
Vronsky, Vitya, 128
Vyshinsky, Andrei, 381
Wagner, Richard, 176
Wailes, Chatman C., 397
Waldron, Eric, 74, 591–2 n 16
Wales, 191, 227–8, 414, 493
Walker, A’Lelia, 82, 102, 131, 595 n 36
Walker, George, 44, 96
Wallace, Edgar, 115, 122, 178, 180, 605 n 16
Wallace, Henry A., 285, 299, 300, 316, 317, 321, 322, 324–6, 328, 330, 331, 335, 359, 367, 370, 383, 388, 686 n 9
Walls, Bishop William Jacob, 344–5, 376, 392, 398, 428
Walls of Jericho, The (Fisher), 33
Walpole, Hugh, 91, 118, 136
Walter, Francis, 440–2, 677 n
Wanamaker, Sam, 476, 477, 478, 733 n 32
Ward, Harry F., 443
Warren, Earl, 446
Warren, Guy, 547
Warsaw Ghetto, 352, 689 n 40, 690 n 43; see also “Zog Nit Keynmal”
Washington, Booker T., 4, 26, 30, 67
Washington, D.C.
1949 concert in, 377–8
racial riot in (1919), 32
Washington, Fredi, 103, 168, 279, 601 n 45, 622 n 25, 665 n 47
Washington, Joseph, 609 n 4
Washington, Val, 471–2
Washington and Lee College, 22–3
Washington Committee for Aid to China, 250–1
Washington School, 12
“Water Boy,” 79
Waters, Ethel, 259, 260, 261, 666 n 5
Weaver, Robert C., 495
Webb, Beatrice, 198
Webb, Chick, 177
Webb, Sidney, 198
Webster, Margaret, 263–5, 268–71, 275–7, 632 n 20, 654 n 51, 658 n 3, 661 n 24, 663 n 37, n 41, n 43, 665 n 47
“Weepin’ Mary,” 92
Weigl, Helene, 486–7
Weill, Kurt, 177, 230, 645 n 41
Welch, Elizabeth, 204, 207, 543
Welles, Orson, 299–300
Wells, Aaron, 409, 410, 435, 438–9
Wells, H. G., 201, 212, 234
Welsh miners, 228, 231; see also Wales
Wescott, Glenway, 70, 93, 94
West, Dorothy, 637 n 52
West, Rebecca, 94–5, 100, 143, 589–90 n 4, 599 n 22
West Africa (magazine), 90, 611 n 23
West African Students Union, 198
Westchester Committee for Law and Order, 366, 368
Westfield, New Jersey, 9
Whale, James, 196
Wheeler, Monroe, 70, 93, 94, 97
White, Clarence Cameron, 615 n 43, 665 n 2
White, Gladys, 70, 72, 73, 74, 80, 86, 100, 102
White, Josh, 238, 284, 391
White, Steve, 20
White, Walter, 56, 70, 72, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 86, 95, 100, 102, 171, 229, 235, 239, 252, 255, 280, 324, 325, 346, 590 n 13, 591 n 15, 612 n 27, 656 n 57, 673 n 24, 681 n 18, n 19, n 20, 688 n 30, 716 n 5
developing rift with PR, 306, 322–3, 680–1 n 16
early (1920s) friendship with PR, 117, 594 n 32
Ebony attack on PR (1951), 394–5, 704 n 36
response to PR’s Paris speech (1949), 343, 348–9, 687 n 19, 688 n 22
on Spingarn medal to PR, 299–301, 669 n 28
Whiteman, Lovett Fort, 629 n 7
Whitfield, Mrs., 476
Whitley, Frank, 431
Whitman, Charles H., 573–4 n 16
Whitney, A. F., 321
Wiborg, Mary Hoyt (Hoytie), 43–5, 48, 51, 53
see also Taboo
Wilcox, Herbert, 607 n 34
Wilcoxon, Henry, 209–10, 638 n 61
Wild Deer (Lewis), 636 n 50
Wiles, McKinley, 435, 439
Wiley (senator), 328, 330
Wilkerson, Doxey, 330–1, 383, 652 n 34, 670 n 6, 675 n 33
Wilkins, Aminda Badeau, 37
Wilkins, Roy, 105–6, 146, 226, 285, 299, 319, 343–4, 347, 348, 349, 374, 385, 395, 396, 447, 448, 460, 528, 549, 679 n 5, 681 n 20, 688 n 29
PR denounced by (1949), 347–9
Wilkinson, Ellen, 213, 225
William and Mary College, 22
Williams, Aubrey, 442
Williams, Bert, 44, 96
Williams, Frances, 181, 630 n 12, 710 n 19
Williams, James Milo (“Ink”), 34
Williams, Mary Lou, 283, 285
Willkie, Wendell, 253
Wills, Henry, 52
Wills, J. Elder, 207
Wills, Nancy, 488
Wilson, Frank, 105, 261, 588 n 48, 622 n 25
Wilson, J. Dover, 449, 724 n 7
Wilson, Teddy, 283
Wilson, Woodrow, 4, 31
Wiltwyck School for Boys, 656 n 59
Winchell, Walter, 337, 372
Winninger, Charles, 159
Winston, Hattie, 761 n 12
Winston, Henry, 331, 363, 382–3, 422, 423, 518, 549, 679–80 n 11, 755 n 16
Win the Peace Organization, 304, 305, 316, 673 n 23, 678 n 2
Witherspoon Elementary School, 6
Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church (Princeton), 6–8, 567 n 6, 568 n 9, n 11
Witt, Nathan, 388, 389
Woldin, Sam, 11, 570 n 17
Wolfe, Jacques, 655 n 53
Wong, Anna May, 124, 136
Wood, John S., 359
Wood, Sam, 698 n 34
Wooding, Sam, 132
Woodward, Isaac, 305, 673 n 24
Woolf, Leonard, 162, 163, 449
Woolf, Virginia, 162, 163, 212
Woollcott, Alexander
, 43–4, 64, 102, 159, 229, 238, 568 n 9, 602 n 47, 633 n 30, 648 n 12
World Convention of Religions, 378
World Peace Congress (1949), PR’s speech at, 341–50
World Peace Council, 386, 392, 482, 733 n 29
World War II, 232–5, 252–3
as “imperialist” war, 248
invasion of the Soviet Union, 252
PR’s views on, 233–5, 238–9, 243
World Youth Festival (1959), 479–80, 734 n 38
Wright, Corinne, see Cook, Corinne
Wright, James T., 425, 432
Wright, Louis, 42, 300, 322, 348, 688 n 31
Wright, Richard, 197, 225, 243, 626 n 47, 633 n 25, 643 n 29, 692 n 55
Wycherly, Margaret, 43, 44, 48, 53, 58
Yakuts, 187–8
Yergan, Max, 206, 210, 229, 243, 248, 249, 256–7, 285, 298, 300–1, 303–4, 318, 330–3, 346, 349, 440–1, 548, 670 n 2, n 4, 671 n 14, 672 n 21, 683 n 37, 684 n 42, n 43, 705 n 41
Council on African Affairs split and, 330–3, 683 n37 684 n 39–43
PR’s Paris speech denounced by (1949), 346
as PR’s political liaison, 257
response to Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, 303–4
Young, Andrew, 547
Young, Coleman, 324, 401, 528
Young, Roland, 207
Young, Stark, 278
Young, Thomas W., 360, 441
Zhukov, Georgi, 496
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 113, 159
Zilliacus, Konni, 341
“Zog Nit Kaynmal,” 353
Zolotow, Sam, 276
Zuloaga, 76
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Martin Duberman is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he founded the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the first university-based LGBT research center in the United States. He is the author of more than twenty books, including three memoirs about his experience as a politically active gay man, and The Martin Duberman Reader (2013). A finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Duberman has received a Bancroft Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, the American Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2012, Amherst College presented Duberman with an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.
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