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by Lawrence P. Jackson

Chastel, Jean, 279

  Cheever, John, 422

  Chicago, race riots in, 38

  Chicago Defender, 90, 94, 97, 130, 156, 172, 181, 187, 188, 210, 212, 213, 286, 317

  Chicago Sun, 207, 240–41

  Chicago Tribune, 317, 480

  Chink Charlie (pimp), 69

  Chopin, Kate, “Dead Men’s Shoes,” 104

  Christowe, Stoyan, 243

  Cinq Colonnes à la Une (TV), 416, 417, 425

  City Without Men (film), 145, 152

  Civil War, U.S.:

  black troops in, 28

  and slavery, 4–5

  veterans of, 20

  Claasen, Clara, 200–201

  Claflin University, 11–12, 13, 14, 24

  Clark, Eleanor, 252, 361

  Clark, Tom C., 176, 356

  Clarke, John Henrik, 488

  Clarke, Shirley, 424, 465

  Cleaver, Eldridge, xiv, 479

  Soul on Ice, 487

  Clermont-Tonnerra, Thierry de, 438

  Cleveland, 48–49

  black ghetto in, 64–65

  black migrants in, 50

  Depression in, 132

  East High School, 52–55, 60, 70, 125

  gambling house in, 66–69

  Himes family home in, 54, 71

  Himes family move to, 47, 49, 70

  history of, 124–25, 127, 135

  organized crime in, 60, 68–69

  prostitution in, 56–57, 69

  Recreational Opportunities in Cleveland, 135

  Wade Park Manor, 55–56, 58, 66, 111, 113

  Woodland Center Neighborhood House, 111

  Cleveland, Charles, 3

  Cleveland, Elizabeth Bomar, 3

  Cleveland, Jesse, 2, 3

  Cleveland, Maggie, 3

  Cleveland, Malinda, 2–3

  Cleveland, Phillis, 3

  Cleveland, Robert Easley, 3

  Cleveland, Thomas, 3, 6

  Cleveland Call and Post, 123, 213

  Cleveland News, 136, 170, 238

  Cleveland Plain Dealer, 128, 135, 207

  Cleveland Press, 118, 131, 243

  Cleveland Public Library Project, 124

  Cleveland Union Leader, 124

  Cleveland Writers’ Project, 229

  Clifford, Jay, 462

  Cobb, R. E., 19

  Cocteau, Jean, 390

  Cohn, Arthur, 413, 414, 416, 423

  Cohn, Harry, 413

  Cohn, Roy, 297

  COINTELPRO, 386

  Cold War, 321, 332

  Cole, William, 239

  Coleman, Walter:

  on the “Blow,” 373–74

  Himes’s friendship with, 296, 353, 438, 445

  in Himes’s writings, 496

  and race relations, 446

  socializing, 296, 353, 379, 381, 385, 387, 463

  and Torun, 373, 407, 411, 438, 445, 457

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 4

  Collier’s, 92, 116, 119, 152, 154, 263, 278, 334

  Columbia Pictures, 152, 413

  Commentary, 243–44

  Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 182

  Committee Against Jim Crow in the Military, 249

  Committee for Cultural Freedom, 367

  Committee for Equal Justice, 194

  Common Ground, 185–86, 188

  Communiqué, 155

  Communist Party, 182, 368

  and blacklist, 155, 243, 297–98

  and Ellison, 189, 190, 244

  and FBI, 176, 188, 211, 386

  and Harrington, 293, 385, 409

  and Himes, 149–50, 156, 161–63, 176, 188, 189, 211, 287, 332–33, 398, 420, 447, 450, 472

  in Himes’s writing, 162–63, 170, 221, 236–37, 239, 240, 242–43

  in Hollywood, 149–50, 150–51, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159–60, 161–63, 243, 249, 420

  John Reed Clubs, 150, 298

  and New Masses, 132–33, 189, 242–43, 282, 287, 342

  and Red Scare, 243, 249, 277, 278, 280, 288, 297, 386

  and Trumbo, 150–51, 172

  and World War II, 177–78, 214

  and Wright, 133, 189, 214, 237, 246, 298

  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 124, 131

  Political Action Committee, 181–82, 183, 194, 202, 221

  United Auto Workers–CIO, 186

  Congress View, 214

  Connelly, Marc, 154, 172, 198–99

  The Green Pastures, 199

  Conrad, Earl, 210–11, 231, 245

  Conroy, Jack, 199, 216

  Contact magazine, 487

  Cook, Fannie, 269

  Mrs. Palmer’s Honey, 200, 215–17, 221

  Cook, Mercer, 366

  Cooke, Wilson, 12

  Cooper, Anna Julia, 22–23, 24, 34, 120

  Cooper, Milton, 347

  Copeland, Ernestine, 41–42

  Coppola, Francis Ford, 497

  CORE, 418

  Coronet, 126, 140

  Cosmopolitan, 92

  Council on Books in Wartime, 201

  Coward-McCann, 275, 347, 429

  Cowley, Malcolm, 251, 252, 256

  Cox, Ida, 27

  Creative Writing Forum, 254–55, 259

  Crisis, The, 34, 159, 163, 166, 167, 169, 171, 175–76, 177, 183, 197, 207, 263, 366

  Crossroad, 128–29, 132

  Crown Publishing Group, 376

  Cruse, Harold, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, 477

  Cuba, 446–47, 450

  Cullen, Countee, 202, 205

  Curtis, Constance H., 188, 207

  Dadié, Bernard, 363

  Daily Worker, 214

  Dann, Phillip J., Jr., 70

  Danzas, Minnie, 378, 387

  Davis, Arthur P., 213–14, 317

  Davis, Ben, 133, 356

  Davis, John, 366

  Davis, Ossie, 474, 482–83, 488

  Dawson, William L., 107, 183

  Dee, Ruby, 488

  de Gaulle, Charles, 427, 447

  Delaney, Beauford, 361

  Dell Publishing Co., 448, 454, 455, 478

  Demby, William, 494

  De Priest, Oscar Stanton, 62, 63

  Dessalines, Jean-Jacques, 112

  Dett, Nathaniel, 107

  Deven, J. Claude, 383

  Dexamyl, 278, 286, 304–5, 313, 322, 328, 344, 358

  Dial Press, 342, 345, 358, 370

  Dickens, Charles, 4

  Dickinson, Charles, 124

  Die Welt, 395, 428

  Diop, Alioune, 405, 428, 451

  Dixon, Dean, 410, 439

  Dixon, Thomas, The Clansman, 194

  Django Unchained (film), 476

  Dr. Strangelove (film), 443

  Dodd Mead, 140, 144

  Dodson, Owen, 190, 205

  Dolivet, Louis, 395

  Dos Passos, John, 99, 139

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Brothers Karamazov, 305, 443

  Doubleday (publisher), 140, 184, 228, 278, 334, 396, 482

  and Black Sheep, 144

  and Council on Books in Wartime, 201

  financial dealings with, 189, 225, 229, 235, 239, 247, 271, 429, 481, 490

  and Himes’s detective stories, 492–93

  and If He Hollers Let Him Go, xiii, 193, 196, 199, 200–202, 203–5, 213, 215–17, 218, 221, 224, 247, 485

  and The Primitive, 342

  and The Quality of Hurt, 485

  Douglas, Aaron, 181, 186

  Douglas, Alta, 186, 190, 191

  Drake, St. Clair, 207, 209

  Dreiser, Theodore, 172

  Du Bois, David, 446

  Du Bois, W. E. B., xi, 17, 34, 163, 181, 190, 367, 446

  Duchamp, Marcel, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 219

  Duggan, Laurence, 277

  Duhamel, Marcel, 388, 410–11, 494

  death of, 495

  and detective stories, 329, 372, 376, 387, 388, 394, 410, 411, 456

  and Gallimard, 329, 372, 378, 387, 389, 413, 429

  and If He Hollers Let Him
Go, 331, 372

  and La Reine des pommes, 387, 389, 411

  translations by, 218, 328, 331, 372

  Duke, 382

  Dummy (professional gambler), 69

  Dunbar, Paul Laurence, xii

  Duncan, Isadora, 362

  Duncan, Raymond, 362

  Duncan, Robert P., 71

  Dunham, Katherine, 297

  Durham Herald, 265–66

  Durham Sun, 266

  Dutton, Lorenzo, 12

  Earle, Amaryllis, 3, 4

  Earle, O. P., 6

  Earle, Theron, 3, 4, 6

  East St. Louis, racial violence in, 45

  Ebony, 180, 227, 242, 267, 318

  Editions Corréa, 267, 279, 287, 326, 331

  Editions Les Yeux Ouverts, 437

  Editions Plon, 331, 344, 350–51, 379, 382–83, 388, 403, 407, 408, 416, 417, 429, 434, 436, 438

  Egypt, racism in, 445

  Eighteenth Amendment, 60

  Eisenhower administration, 373, 398

  Ellington, Duke, 381

  Ellison, Fanny, 229, 231–32, 282, 335–36, 488

  Ellison, Ralph, xiv, 188–90, 205, 212, 229–32, 282–85, 294, 300

  and the blues, 210, 230–31

  “Flying Home,” 189

  Himes’s contretemps with, 230, 231–32, 283–84, 335, 338, 478–79

  and Himes’s writing, 189, 244–45, 283–84, 285, 286, 306, 318, 365, 370, 488

  influence of, 229–31, 298, 444, 480–81

  Invisible Man, 245, 274–75, 283, 288, 306, 309–10, 391, 477, 479

  “King of the Bingo Game,” 189

  and matriarchal black families, 231

  and National Book Award, 283, 288, 355

  and New Masses, 282

  on race relations, 218–19, 230, 283

  and Rome Prize, 421–22

  socializing, 229–30, 335–36, 365

  and stylistic development, 282–83

  “Twentieth Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity,” 234

  and Wright, 189, 209–10, 218, 231, 283, 284–85, 299, 365, 367, 479

  Embassy Pictures, 422

  Embree, Edwin R., 138, 169

  Epps, Harold, 266

  Escape from Crime (film), 145, 152

  Esquire, 99–105, 107, 112, 114, 117, 120, 126, 131, 140, 152, 158, 167, 174, 204, 218, 237, 342, 345, 374–75, 396, 428

  Fabre, Michel, 493

  Fair, Ronald, 479

  Fairclough, Lewis, 186

  Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), 130, 182

  Fair Play for Cuba Committee, 393, 430

  Falcon Press, 307

  Fanon, Frantz, 403

  Black Skins, White Masks, 368

  Farrelly, John, 240

  Faulkner, William, 136, 239, 309, 324, 388, 482

  Light in August, 253, 321

  Sanctuary, 376, 381

  Fausett, Arthur Huff, 153

  Fawcett Publications, 384

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 150, 176, 188, 198, 211, 297–98, 386, 419, 423, 470, 472

  Federal Writers Project (FWP), 122–25, 128, 135, 154

  Fellini, Federico, 403

  Ferber, Edna, Show Boat, 145

  Ferguson, O. W., 25

  Fernandez de Castro, Jose Antonio, 190

  Feux Croisés (Crossfire) series, 344, 382–83

  F.G. Short and Sons, 326, 330, 347

  Finley, Glenn, 256

  Finn, Jonathan, 107

  First Amendment, 321–22

  Fischer, Otto, 374, 375, 400

  Fischer, Regine, 366, 374–76, 391, 434

  affair with Himes, 359–60, 361, 363–64, 375–76, 379–81, 382, 383, 387, 389, 390, 392–95, 399–401, 402–3, 409–10

  family of, 370, 374, 375, 393–94, 400

  and Harrington, 359, 360, 364, 374, 379

  Himes’s mistreatment of, 379–80, 399–400

  and Himes’s writing, 370, 375, 379, 394–95, 402, 407–8, 428, 468, 488, 495

  suicide attempts/threats of, 374, 399–400, 401, 403

  Fisher, Isaac, 38–39

  Fisher, Rudolph, 206, 212

  Fitzgerald, Ella, 256

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 100, 390

  Fleming, Ian, 460

  Ford, Henry, 30

  Forks, Jackie, 243

  Forum, 243

  Foster, Louis, 243

  Four-Four (professional gambler), 69

  Fox, Milton, 128

  Foxx, Redd, 483

  Frabel, Gill, 75

  France:

  and Algeria, 354, 362, 385, 394, 402, 404, 405, 427, 437, 465

  and anti-colonialism, 354, 362–63, 373, 385, 397, 427, 437, 465

  exceptionalism of, 451

  and Indo-China, 326, 356

  racism in, 362, 381, 426–27, 437–39, 453

  right-wing terrorists in, 426–27

  sales of Himes’s books in, 431

  see also Paris

  France-USA, 330

  Franco, Gen. Francisco, 472

  Franco-American Fellowship, 298

  Franklin, Benjamin, 219

  Franklin County Jail, Columbus, Ohio, 70–72

  Frazier, E. Franklin, 212–13, 230, 231, 234, 367

  The Black Bourgeoisie, 301, 426

  Frazier, Marie, 301

  Freedman’s Bureau, 13

  Freeman, Albert, 86

  Freeman, Walter, 337, 342, 345–46, 371, 374

  Friede, Donald, 309, 311, 325

  Fuller, Hoyt, 474, 478, 479

  Future Outlook League, 124, 127, 131

  Second Anniversary Yearbook, 131

  Gaisseau, Dominique-Pierre, 412, 413–15, 416–17, 418, 422, 423, 425, 429, 483

  Galewska sisters, 309

  Gallimard, publishers, 327, 328, 329, 351, 371, 372, 378, 379, 381, 386, 387, 389, 410, 411, 412–13, 414, 429

  Gandhi, and civil disobedience, 249

  García Lorca, Federico, 322

  Garvey, Marcus, 433

  Gassaway, Harold, 122

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 489

  Gayle, Addison, 479, 488

  The Black Aesthetic, 486

  Genet, Jean, 370

  Gentry, Herb, 459

  George Washington Carver Book Award, 185, 199, 200, 205, 215

  Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, Savannah, 12–13, 15, 16, 17–18, 22, 24

  GI Bill, 243, 279, 445

  Gibson, Richard, 286, 353, 354, 361–63, 373, 385–86, 393, 430, 471–72

  African Liberation Movements, 472

  A Mirror for Magistrates, 361, 386

  “A No to Nothing,” 362

  Gillespie, Dizzy, 148

  Gilpin Players, 112

  Gingrich, Arnold, 99, 100–101, 104, 114, 126, 152, 170–71, 172, 342, 345, 374–75, 428, 486

  Ginsberg, Allen, 364

  Giono, Jean, 390, 392, 393

  Un Roi sans divertissement, 389

  Giovanni, Nikki, 479, 487, 489

  Girls Camp, Jean’s job with, 233–34

  Girodias, Maurice, 408, 409, 410, 412, 454–55

  Gogol, “The Overcoat,” 109

  Goines, Donald, White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief, 484

  Goldwater, Barry, 448

  Goldwyn, Samuel, Jr., 460, 463, 465, 466, 469–70, 474, 480, 484

  Goode, Wilson, 476

  Gordon, Eugene, 214

  Gorky, Maksim, 100

  G. P. Putnam, publishers, 268, 441, 448, 454, 456, 458, 469, 482, 486

  Granger, Lester, 189, 402

  Graves, Robert, 322–23

  Gray, Jesse, 444

  Great Depression, 90, 97, 109, 114, 123, 129, 132, 147, 169, 177, 426

  Greenlee, Sam, 479

  Green Pastures (drama), 154

  Greenwood, Marianne, 411–12, 414, 421, 428–29, 432–33, 434, 435, 436

  The Tattooed Heart of Livingstone, 432

  Gregoire, Henri, An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literat
ure of Negroes, 14

  Gregory, Dick, 426, 457

  Grotia, Lillie, 39

  Guérin, Daniel, 303, 360, 461, 462

  Guggenheimer, Ida, 244–45

  Gullah dialect, 32

  Guy, Rosa, 488

  Haines Normal and Industrial School, Augusta, Georgia, 31–32

  Hair (musical), 482

  Haley, Alex, 453, 487

  Hammett, Dashiell, 100, 228, 372, 443

  Hammond, Grace, 25

  Hancock, John, 291

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 412, 415

  Hara Kiri, 458

  Harlem Renaissance, 103, 234

  Harlem Writers Guild, 488

  Harlequin, 275

  Harmonique Five, 90

  Harper’s Bazaar, 352

  Harper, Toi and Emerson, 190

  Harper and Brothers, 301

  Harrington, Oliver:

  and Fischer, 359, 360, 364, 374, 379

  and Gibson, 361, 362, 373

  Himes’s friendship with, 355–57, 362, 393, 394, 404, 405, 409, 412, 470

  and Himes’s writing, 355, 369, 385, 407

  in Paris, 296, 353, 362, 373

  socializing, 190, 293, 297, 387, 395, 397

  and World War II, 356

  Harris, Charles, 480

  Hart, Albert Bushnell, 8

  Harvard Lampoon, 355

  Hastie, William, 182

  Hatcher, Harlan, 124

  Hate That Hate Produced, The (TV), 418

  Hawkins, George, 143

  Haydn, Hiram, The Time Is Noon, 259

  Hayes, Roland, 154, 171

  Haygood, Vandi, 314

  affair with Himes, 198, 276–78, 279, 280–81, 283, 284–86, 290, 297, 302, 305, 307, 319, 343, 360, 361

  and Cayton, 282, 289

  death of, 344, 358

  and Ellison, 283, 365, 478

  and Himes’s writing, 200, 202, 319, 344, 465

  problems with Himes, 278, 281, 284, 285–86, 380

  and Rosenwald Fund, 169, 174–75, 197, 198, 277, 283

  socializing, 169, 191, 488

  Haygood, William Converse, 138, 169, 229, 232, 234, 235, 316

  Haynes, Leroy, 302, 365, 409, 468

  Healey, Dorothy, 160

  Hedgeman, Anna Arnold, 420

  Hemingway, Ernest, xii, 120, 134, 136, 139, 230, 329, 344

  and Esquire magazine, 99–100, 101

  A Farewell to Arms, 107

  “Fifty Grand,” 99

  For Whom the Bell Tolls, 139

  “The Killers,” 99

  “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 100

  The Sun Also Rises, 61, 99, 196

  “The Trademan’s Return,” 117

  Henderson, William, 61, 64, 66

  Henry, O., xi, 91, 99, 103, 107

  Henry Holt, publisher, 260, 266

  Henry J. Kaiser Shipyard, 153

  Hersey, John, 422

  Hicks, Granville, 251

  Highsmith, Patricia, 253–54, 260, 311, 461–62

  Strangers on a Train, 253

  Hill, Herbert, 408–9, 422–24

  Hillman, Sidney, 181–82

  Himes, family name of, 9, 505

  Himes, Andrew (uncle), 10, 49, 51, 56

  Himes, Anna Robinson, 9, 10

 

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