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by Lawrence P. Jackson

Institute of International Education (IIE), 277

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 341

  International Association of Machinists, 162

  International Literary Bureau, 119

  International Literature, 158

  International Writers Union, 158

  Irele, Abiola, 397

  Ish, Jefferson, 39

  Italian Renaissance, 275

  Ives, Marion, 138

  Ivy, James, 366

  Jackson, Blyden, 317

  Jackson, Helen, 481, 485

  Jackson, Jesse, 63

  Jackson, Marrilla and William, 71

  Jackson, Perry B., 122

  Jacob Reed’s Sons, 100

  Jahn, Janheinz, 475

  Jailbreak (film), 107

  James, C. L. R., 209, 212, 431, 465

  Janeway, Elizabeth, 205

  Janken, Kenneth, 184

  Jefferson, Thomas, 14

  Jellife, Rowena and Russell, 128, 138, 145

  Jenkins, Bud, 65

  Jet, 346, 431, 436, 468

  Jett, Ruth, 214

  Johnny Apollo (film), 145

  Johnny Got His Gun (film), 150

  John Reed Clubs, 150, 298

  Johnson, Andrew, 186, 270

  Johnson, Clarence, 151

  Johnson, Hall, 154, 156

  Johnson, Hugo, 223–24, 226–27

  Johnson, James Weldon, 19, 220

  Johnson, Jean Lucinda [Plater/Himes]:

  affair with Himes, 72, 73–74, 114–15, 116, 121, 360

  breakup with Himes, 272–73, 274, 281, 290

  career successes of, 178–79, 233–34, 257

  and divorce, 340–41, 343, 363, 379, 455–56, 494, 496

  and finances, 128, 139, 267, 270, 271, 273, 366

  friendships of, 232

  in Himes’s writing, 117, 134, 187–88, 205, 226–27, 307, 312, 488

  jobs held by, 115, 131, 139, 142, 143, 258, 259, 264, 267, 271, 272

  in Los Angeles, 147–48, 153, 164, 167, 178–79, 191, 197, 202

  marriage to Himes, 115–16, 126, 174, 184, 187, 210, 248, 249, 258, 260

  and Plater, 74, 116

  and Thompson, 333, 340, 343

  traveling with, 134, 222, 235, 263, 266, 267

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 452

  Johnson, Margot, 260, 266–67, 270, 275, 314

  Johnson, Polly, 183, 278

  Jones, James, 292, 431

  Jones, LeRoi (Baraka), 430–31, 467, 474, 482

  Black Fire, 477

  Jones, Theresa Estelle [Himes], 118, 265

  Joyce, James, 344

  Finnegans Wake, 253

  Julius Rosenwald Fund:

  closing of, 277

  directors of, 138, 169

  and Ellison, 189, 283

  and Himes, 138, 169, 173, 174–75, 177, 178, 181, 197, 198, 199, 203, 204, 221, 229, 232, 235, 236

  mission of, 138

  Kafka, Franz, 324

  Kanaga, Consuela, 160

  Kansas, migration to, 19

  Karamu House, Cleveland, 128, 134, 136, 138

  Katzenjammer Kids, 67

  Katz, Sam, 127

  Kazantzakis, Nikos:

  The Last Temptation, 382

  Zorba the Greek, 382

  Kazin, Alfred, 365

  Kelley, Ishmael, 353, 387

  Kelley, William Melvin, A Different Drummer, 406

  Kemp, Arnold, 479

  Ken, 126, 127

  Kennedy, John F., 398, 439, 452

  Kenyon Review, 353

  Kerwin, Joseph, 81

  Killens, John, Youngblood, 306

  Kimball, Richard, 422

  Kimbrough, Jess, 149, 158, 376

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 212

  assassination of, 473, 474

  “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” 442

  Kinloch, John, 149, 151

  Kinsey, Alfred, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 261, 268

  Kirk, Roland, 439

  Kishur, Gideon, 119

  Kitt, Eartha, 297

  Klonsky, Milton, 243–44

  Knopf, Alfred A., Inc., 136, 138, 481

  accounting practices in, 247–48, 269, 271, 429

  and Himes’s dunning for money, 257, 270, 341

  and Himes’s memoirs, 446

  Himes’s missed deadlines with, 260, 269

  and Immortal Mammy, 234–35, 257, 371

  and Lonely Crusade, xiii, 232, 238, 239, 245, 257, 313, 341, 423, 432, 436, 446

  and Yesterday Will Make You Cry, 225, 227, 234

  Knopf, Blanche, 149, 224, 228, 232, 234, 236, 237, 238, 257, 265, 269, 341

  Koshland, William, 341

  Kostroff, Larry, 436

  Kreisler, Fritz, 35

  Krim, Seymour, 426

  Kristallnacht, comparison with U.S. race riots, 166

  Ku Klux Klan, 423, 426

  La Ciotat writers colony, 360, 394, 461, 462

  La Dolce Vita (film), 403

  Lafuite, René, 413, 416

  Lamming, George, 366

  The Castle of My Skin, 344

  The Immigrants, 344

  Landis, James, 469

  Laney, Lucy, 31–32

  Lardner, Ring, 100

  Lardner, Ring, Jr., 155

  La Série Noire, 329, 372, 379, 381, 383–84, 389, 396, 411, 412

  Lawrence, Seymour, 446

  Lawson, John Howard, 150–51

  Lazareff, Pierre, 416, 417, 425, 426, 428

  League of American Writers, 149, 150, 151, 155, 291

  Lederman, Ross, 152

  Lee, Don L. (Haki Madhubiti), 479

  Don’t Cry, Scream, 378

  “Understanding but Not Forgetting,” 462

  Le Figaro, 416

  Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher, 487

  Le Monde, 350, 354

  Lenin, V. I., 175, 229, 244, 306

  Le Revue de Paris, 416

  Les Lettres Françaises, 383, 443

  Leslie, Joshua, 353, 397

  Les Temps Modernes, 351, 456

  Lester, Julius, 479, 487

  Levey, Stan, 148

  Levin, Dan, 129, 279, 287

  Levin, Meyer, 104, 152

  Levine, Joseph E., 422

  L’Express, 365, 393

  L’Humanité, 354

  Libération, 354

  Liberty, 92

  Licavoli, Thomas, 83

  Liepman, Ruth, 395, 408

  Life, 283, 310, 385

  Lincoln, Abraham, 48

  Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Missouri, 19, 20–26, 120

  Literary Guild, 309

  Littauer, Kenneth, 119, 152, 334, 336–37

  Little Caesar (film), 258

  Locke, Alain, 63, 234

  Lockhart, Calvin, 424

  Lomax, Phil, 468–69, 471, 477

  Lonardo, Angelo, 68

  Lonardo, “Big Joe,” 68

  London:

  escape from, 314, 316

  Himes and Packard in, 443, 474

  Himes and Thompson in, 307–9, 311–14

  Himes’s return visit to, 331, 332–33

  race prejudice in, 308, 311, 319, 333

  London, Jack, 91

  London Prison Farm, 105–6, 110, 287

  Los Angeles:

  African American writers in, 190

  black migrants in, 177

  Communist Party in, 149–50, 420

  Himeses’ move to, 145, 147–67

  Japanese citizens removed from, 157

  police brutality against blacks in, 420, 457

  racial discrimination in, 148–49, 154–56, 160, 172, 179, 202

  racial tension in, 148, 153, 165–66, 184, 235

  Watts riots in, 457

  Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, 164

  Los Angeles Sentinel, 156

  Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 174

  Los Angeles Times, 157, 457, 487, 494

  Lothman, Daniel, 70

  Luccioni, Roger, 462

  Luce,
Henry, 250, 283, 288

  Lucy, Authurine, 354

  Lumumba, Patrice, 404, 405, 446

  Lunquist, James, 495

  MacArthur, Douglas, 250

  Mademoiselle, 138

  Madhubuti, Haki (Lee), 378, 462, 479

  Magic Bow, The (film), 156

  Mailer, Norman, 292, 426

  The Naked and the Dead, 260

  Major, Clarence, 479, 486, 488

  Malabar Farm, 139, 142–46, 170, 222–23

  Malartic, Yves, 272, 292, 293, 304, 324, 326, 327, 331, 350, 366, 373

  Malcolm X, xiv, 417–20, 430, 446, 449–53

  antiwhite stance of, 418, 419, 423, 457

  assassination of, xv, 453, 454, 474

  biography of, 567

  and Himes’s writing, 418, 450

  and media, 418, 420, 425, 426, 428, 487

  and Nation of Islam, 417–18, 419–20, 449, 453

  and revolution, 419–20, 427, 449

  threats to, 449, 451, 453

  Mallorca:

  Himes and Fischer in, 387–89

  Himes and Thompson in, 314, 315–16, 318–19, 322, 324–27

  Malone, Robert, 39, 43

  Malraux, André, 439

  Malraux, Clara, 439

  Manhunt, 342

  Marable, Manning, 567

  Marble, Henry, 338

  March on Washington (1963), 438

  Margolies, Edward, 494

  Marinoff, Fania, 452

  Marshall, Thurgood, 182, 266

  Martin, Gertrude, 317

  Martin, John A., 29

  Marx, Karl, 208, 306

  Marxism, 190, 228, 288, 333, 362, 397, 447, 450, 452

  Mason, Ann, 183, 186

  Mathieu, André, 437

  Matthews, Mrs. Edward, 186

  Matthiessen, Peter, 354

  Maude, Chester’s abandonment of, 66, 89

  Maugham, Somerset, 139, 383

  Mayfield, Julian, 451

  Mayfield Road Gang, 68

  Mboya, Tom, 332

  McBride, Mary Margaret, 239–40

  McCall, Nathan, xiv

  McCarthy, Joseph, 297, 321

  McCormick, Ken, 216, 225, 334, 481

  McCoy, Horace, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, 259

  McDaniel, Eluard, 150, 160

  McDaniel, Hattie, 155

  McDermott, Pat, 82

  McMahon, Walter, 76

  McPherson, James Alan, Hue and Cry, 479

  McWilliams, Carey, 172, 220–21, 232

  Meldrim, Peter, 14, 16, 19

  Melville, Herman, 230

  Mencken, H. L., 228

  Meredith, James, 426

  Merlin, 361

  Meyers, Eddie, 353

  Mezzrow, Mezz, 387, 409

  M-G-M, 154, 156, 199, 460, 483

  Micha, René, “The Parishioners of Chester Himes,” 456

  Michael Arthur Films, 413

  Michaux, Lewis, 418, 419, 428, 433

  Militant, The, 242

  Millau, Christian, 395, 399, 402

  Miller, Arthur, 207

  Miller, Henry, 295, 323, 329, 353

  Miller, Juanita, 164, 177, 187, 190

  Miller, Loren, 149, 151, 160, 164, 190

  Miller, Samuel, 75–76, 486

  Miller, Warren, The Cool World, 424

  Milliken, Stephen, 495

  Millionaires in Prison (film), 145

  Mills, Florence, 173

  Millstein, Gilbert, 286

  Minué, Roche, 322, 388

  Missouri, migration to, 19–20, 38

  Mitchell, Loften, 488

  Mittwer, Mary Oyama and family, 157, 173

  Modern Language Association, 32

  Monroe movement, North Carolina, 423

  Moody, Pearl, 126

  Moon, Bucklin, 182, 184–85, 189, 436

  and Carver Award, 185, 199, 200

  The Darker Brother, 185

  and Himes’s writing, 192–93, 196, 197, 200, 201–2, 204–5, 215, 216, 224, 228–29, 277–78

  Primer for White Folks, 186, 200, 204

  “Slack’s Blues,” 196

  Moon, Ella, 112

  Moon, Ellen, 26

  Moon, Henry Lee, 26, 51

  breakup with Himes, 206, 209, 210

  and Communist Party, 151

  early career of, 118

  and FDR’s campaign, 181–83

  and Himes in New York, 179, 180–81, 202

  and Himes’s writing, 116, 117, 120, 170–71, 204, 244

  influence of/Himes’s use of, 55, 118, 120, 131, 163, 169, 170, 179, 206, 209

  and Mollie, see Moon, Mollie Lewis

  social connections of, 94, 120, 168, 187, 188, 190, 212, 402, 408

  and social issues, 118, 125, 127, 131, 202, 244

  travel to Russia, 151

  in Washington, 118, 131, 134, 168

  Moon, Joe Hubbard, 26, 56, 204

  Moon, Leah Himes, 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 50–51, 54, 55, 56, 111–12, 146–47

  Moon, Mollie Lewis:

  connections of, 163, 169, 186, 187, 202, 266, 293

  Himes’s battle of words with, 205

  and Himes’s writing, 204–5, 352, 355, 357

  marriage of Henry and, 118, 134–35

  socializing, 134–35, 169, 180, 183, 184, 186, 190, 191, 202, 204, 212, 266, 278, 293, 357, 381

  and Urban League, 168–69

  Moon, Rodney “Roddy,” 11, 24–25, 26, 50–51, 54, 73, 111–12, 203

  Moore, Carlos, 446–47, 448, 449–52, 453, 567

  Morrill Act, and land-grant colleges, 13

  Morrison, Allan, 431

  Moten, Fannie, 25

  Motion Pictures Producers, Los Angeles, 423

  Motley, Willard, xiv, 240–42, 260

  Knock on Any Door, 237, 241, 246, 266–67

  Moumié, Félix, 405

  Moutet, Karin, 407

  MOVE, 476

  Muhammad, Akbar, 446

  Muhammad, Elijah, 446

  Muhammad Speaks, 419

  Muldrew, Mattie, 232

  Muntu religion, 475

  Murphy, James and Joseph, 93

  Mystère, 391

  Mystery Writers of America, 477

  NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People):

  and civil rights activism, 186, 418, 420

  and Congress, 356

  and FBI, 188, 386, 423

  formation of, 17, 50

  and Hill, 408–9, 423–24

  Himes condemned by, xiv

  and Himes’s writing, 163, 166, 168, 423

  Monroe movement, 423

  and public relations, 154–55, 483–84, 492

  stereotypes fought by, 160, 163, 202, 423–24

  and Supreme Court, 151

  and White, 18, 155, 183, 202, 357

  Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, 408

  Nasser, Gamal, 449

  National Book Award, 283, 288, 355

  National Citizens Political Action Committee, 182

  National Labor Relations Board, 423

  National Memorial Bookstore, 418

  National Negro Business League, 15

  National Negro Congress, 214

  Nation of Islam, 417–18, 419–20, 449, 453

  Neale, Larry, 488

  Nedeau, Maurice, 326, 331

  Neely, Sandy, see Himes, Joseph Sandy

  Negro Caravan (anthology), 158–59

  Negro Digest, 224, 239, 474, 478

  Negro Story, 174, 189, 196, 197

  Negro Writers Guild, 103

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, 161

  Nesbitt, Jacob, 81

  Neurological Institute, New York, 435–36

  New American Library (NAL):

  and Cast the First Stone, 330, 345, 347

  and End of a Primitive, 326, 329, 330, 337, 341, 371

  and Freeman, 342, 345–46

  and Himes’s finances, 331, 341–42, 348, 371, 388

  and If He Hollers Let Him Go, 218, 345, 441

  and
Mamie Mason, 370–71

  in My Life of Absurdity, 495

  and The Primitive, 341, 345, 347–48, 353, 371, 441

  and The Third Generation, 312, 315, 321, 330, 348, 441

  and Weybright, 312, 321, 326, 329, 330

  Newark, New Jersey, riots in, 467–68, 474

  New Leader, 250

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

  New Prospect Hotel, 278

  New Republic, 213, 240

  Newsweek, 239, 469

  New York City:

  Algonquin Hotel in, 239

  Four Freedoms crowd in, 185

  Harlem riots, 443–44, 448

  Himes’s move to, 179, 180–81, 227, 274

  Himes’s return to, 334–36, 428, 430, 432, 482

  history of black life in, 425–26

  Sugar Hill, Harlem, 180–81, 183

  syndicated drug sales in, 418–19

  Theresa Hotel in, 134, 227, 233, 266, 417, 425

  New Yorker, The, 239, 476

  New York Herald Tribune, 240, 392, 408

  New York Public Library, 207, 220

  New York State Women’s Reformatory, 271

  New York Times, 127, 200, 205, 207, 215, 239, 258, 286, 288, 317, 318, 396–97, 457, 459, 460, 477, 483, 487

  New York Times Book Review, 117, 285, 314, 464, 486–87, 494–95

  Niagara Movement, 17

  Nichols, Lewis, 396

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 181–82

  Nixon, Richard M., 321

  Nkrumah, Kwame, 332, 451

  Non Partisan Council for the Abolition of Discrimination in Military and Veteran Affairs, 186

  North Carolina College for Negroes, 264–66

  Nouvelles Littéraires, 330

  Nugget, 436

  Nyobé, Ruben Um, 398

  OAS (Organisation de l’Armée Secrète), 426–27, 447

  Obelisk Press, 323

  Oberlin College, 22, 70, 90

  O’Brien, Edward, 134

  O’Connor, Flannery, 253

  October in Paris (film), 439

  Office of War Information, 154

  O’Hara, John, 239, 293

  Butterfield 8, 259

  Ohio Guide, 125, 127, 135

  Ohio Industrial Commission, 110

  Ohio National Guard, 83, 85–86

  Ohio National Guard Armory, robbery in, 74

  Ohio State Penitentiary, Columbus, Ohio, 76, 77–90

  census taken in, 83

  convicts with disabilities in, 80–81

  electric chair in, 78, 82, 87, 93–94

  escape attempts in, 82, 86

  fire in, 84–85, 87, 88, 89, 103, 136

  guards in, 82–83, 86, 89, 92

  Himes’s parole from, 106, 108, 109, 110, 126

  Himes’s prison writing, xi, xii, 79, 81, 87–89, 90, 91–97, 98–108, 122, 140, 141, 144, 159, 169–70, 174, 218, 280, 484

  Himes’s uniqueness in, 79–80, 104–5

  isolation chamber (“the hole”) in, 80, 84, 86

  laws expediting parole, 89

  prisoners as authors in, 91

  prisoner uprising in, 85–87

  prison life in, 78, 80, 82–83, 105

  prison reform in, 85–86, 87

  racial segregation in, 78–79

 

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