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same-sex relations in, 81, 88, 97–98, 103, 110, 115, 152, 241, 261–62, 286, 287
Ohio State University, 55, 60–64, 65–66
Ohio Writers’ Project, 135
Oklahoma, and exodusters, 19, 147
Olympia Press, 408, 454
Opportunity, 121, 128, 159, 161, 162, 169
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), 450, 451, 452
ORTF France, 416, 417
Ottley, Gladys, 186
Ottley, Roi, 185, 186
Owens, Jesse, 62
Oyono, Ferdinand, 398
Packard, Lesley [Himes], 442, 451
affair with Himes, 380, 392–93, 394, 403–5, 407, 411, 428, 432, 435, 437, 440–41, 458, 466, 468
and Fischer-Himes affair, 380, 392–93, 395, 399, 400, 402–3
and Himes’s ill health and death, 497, 498
and Himes’s papers, 276, 498
and Himes’s writing, 276, 380, 392, 413, 428, 455, 456–57, 488–89, 494, 495
marriage of Himes and, 455, 496, 498
and money, 435, 436, 461, 497
socializing, 392, 421, 462, 478
traveling with Himes, 439, 456, 458–59, 463, 465–66, 472–74, 487, 489, 491, 494
Padmore, George, 332–33, 405
Paganini, Niccolò, 156
Page, Inman, 21
Panijel, Jacques, 439, 458
Paramount Pictures, 152
Paris:
blacks in, 293, 295, 296–301, 303–4, 310, 327–29, 331–32, 354, 355–57, 361, 366–68, 370, 381, 431, 442, 445, 461
FBI agent in, 297–98
Grand Prix awarded to Himes, 391
Himes lost in, 303
Himes’s preoccupation with sex in, 293–94, 295, 306
Himes’s time in, 292–307, 350–74, 385–87, 396, 397, 437–41, 456, 468
Himes’s travel to, 287–92, 327, 348–49, 427, 436–37, 474
international conference of black writers in, 366–68, 373
Père Lachaise cemetery in, 405
student riots in, 474–75
U.S. writers and artists in, 219, 223, 292–95, 299–305, 352, 353–57, 361, 363, 364, 368, 388, 407, 409, 495
Paris-Match, 392, 393, 395
Paris-Presse, 437
Paris Review, 331, 354, 355
Parker, Charlie, 148
Parker, Frederick, 25
Parks, Gordon, 271, 283, 309–10, 483
Parks, Gordon, Jr., 483
Parks, Rosa, 354
Parkway Community House, Chicago, 169, 248–49
Partisan Review, 288, 299
Payne, Lawrence, 122
Pearlstein, Constance, 431, 465, 466
Pearlstein, Edward, 431, 466
PEN Center, 290, 314
Penitentiary News, 91
People’s Daily World, 161
People’s Voice, The, 242, 356
Perl, Arnold, 474
Perry, Johnny, 67
Perry, Lincoln (Stepin Fetchit), 155
Perry, Pettis, 159
Petry, Ann, 185, 205, 415
The Narrows, 306
The Street, 222, 246
Philadelphia Tribune, 474
Phillips, Ruth, 294, 304
Phylon, 296
Picasso, Pablo, 411
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Himes family move to, 38–43, 106
Pittsburgh Courier, 153, 183, 207, 275, 282, 286, 293
Plater, Harry, 72, 74, 114, 115, 116
Players, 496
Plimpton, George, 354
PM, 207
Pocket Books, 436
Poe, Edgar Allan, 311
“The Raven,” 35
Pope, Alexander, 4
Porello, Joe, 68
Porter, Katherine Anne, 134
Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry), xi, 91, 99, 103, 107
Poston, Ted, 206
Pound, Ezra, 101
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 183, 187, 356, 408
Powell, Bud, 407, 415–16
Prattis, P. L., 205
Présence Africain, 360, 428, 437, 438, 451, 462
Preston, Don, 445
Pre-vue Worlds Fair Concert, Cleveland, 134
Price, Emerson, 243
Prison Mutiny (film), 145
Prohibition, 60, 68, 99, 131
Publishers Weekly, 200, 203–4, 313–14
Pulp Fiction (film), 476
Putnam, G. P., publishers, 268, 441, 448, 454, 456, 458, 469, 482, 486
Putnam, James, 268–69, 290
Putnam, Marion, 290, 292, 297–98, 300, 359
Rabbit Foot Minstrels, 27
Rabelais, 416
race:
Arab-African racism, 445, 450
as barrier to relationships, 333, 337–38
“beating that boy,” 218–19, 275
and colonialism, 326, 362, 426–27, 437
Du Bois on, xi, 17, 34, 367
evolution of racism, 246, 425–28, 451–52, 453, 461
Himes’s writings about, xiii, xiv, 242, 425–28, 433–34, 439; see also Himes, Chester B., writings of
and immigration, 172
and intermarriage, 386, 407, 411, 442
interracial sex, 193–95, 198, 201, 276, 280, 281, 297, 302, 305, 307, 319, 324, 336, 359, 365, 369, 380, 386, 441, 452, 464, 468, 487, 489
oppression and violence, 18–19, 194, 425–27, 454, 465, 467–68
racism in Boston, 337–38
racism in Cuba, 446–47
racism in France, 362, 381, 426–27, 437, 453
racism in London, 308, 311, 319, 333
racism in Spain, 473
racism internalized, 211, 284
and slavery, see slavery
and social class, 161–63, 242–43, 250, 278
and taxes, 10
and thunder, 167, 170
U.S. race relations, xiv, 219, 229, 230, 234, 268, 284, 289, 299, 309–11, 337–38, 398, 423, 425–28, 439, 443–44, 465, 467–68, 497
and World War II, 165–66, 173, 177, 186–87
and “you people” designation, 7, 14
see also African Americans
Rainey, Gertrude “Ma,” 27
Raisin in the Sun, A (film), 412, 414
Ralls, Walter and Blanton, 93
Ramseger, George, 395, 409, 428
Randall, Dudley, 489
Randolph, Asa Philip, 249, 419
Random House, 342, 478, 480–81
Raney, Bill, 260, 266
Ransom, John Crowe, 361
Reach, James, 427
Reader’s Digest, 271
Redbook, 92
Reddick, Laurence Dunbar, 212, 220
Redding, J. Saunders, 244
Red Johnny (professional gambler), 69
Red Scare, 243, 249, 277, 278, 280, 288, 297, 386
Reed, Ishmael, 479, 488, 493, 494, 496, 497
Mumbo Jumbo, 377, 495
19 Necromancers from Now, 484
Reese, Mary, 128
Reeves, George H., 76
Remarque, Erich Maria, 383
Revels, Hiram, 28
Revolution, 430
Reynal and Hitchcock, publishers, 189
Reynolds, Rev. Grant, 124, 186–87, 249
Rice, Virginia, 319–20
Richardson, Sandy, 481, 485, 492
Rico, Prince, 97, 98, 105, 106–8, 121, 152, 262
Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, 253
Roach, Max, 442, 443
Robeson, Essie, 184
Robeson, Paul, 145, 173, 182, 184, 220
Robinson, Edward G., 258
Robinson, Jackie, 241, 419, 428
Robinson, Samuel, 9
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 391
Robinson, Ted, 135, 207
Rochfort, Christiane, 437, 438
Rockefeller, Nelson A., 419
Rockefeller, Winthrop, 182, 183
Rome Prize, 421–22
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 118, 130, 164
“Four Freedoms” speech by, 168
&n
bsp; reelection campaign of, 181–83, 186, 187, 197
and World War II, 153, 160
Roosevelt, Theodore, 19, 22, 164
Rose (prostitute), 64, 65
Rose, Innes, 308, 314
Rosenkrantz, Timme “Jazz Baron,” 381, 384
Rosenthal, Jean, 328
Rosenwald, Julius, 138
Rosser, Lou, 159
Rotger Amengual, Dona Catalina, 316
Roth v. United States, 321–22
Rowan, Levi, 29, 30, 33
Rowe, Agnes, 90, 111
Rugoff, Milton, 228
Runnin’ Wild (musical), 62
Russell, Rev. Clayton, 150, 151
Rustin, Bayard, 420
Safford, Frank, 227
St. Jacques, Raymond, 424
St. Louis:
Charles Sumner High School, 46, 55
Himes family move to, 45–47
racial violence in, 45
St. Louis Woman (musical), 199, 202
Sancton, Thomas, 234
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 219, 351, 353, 370, 390
Satterfield, Rev. David Junkin, 7, 16
Saturday Evening Post, 92
Saturday Review of Literature, 215, 217, 221, 230
Savannah, Georgia, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18–19
Savannah Sunday Men’s Club, 16–17, 19
Scarborough, William, 32
Schine, G. David, 297–98, 470
Schomburg Collection of Negro History and Literature, New York, 207, 220
Schubert, Bernard, 287
Schulberg, Budd, What Makes Sammy Run, 259
Schuyler, George, 205, 234, 317
Schuyler, Phillipa, 234
SCLC, 420
Scotia Seminary, 6–7, 8, 16, 22, 24, 51
Scott, C. C., 8
Scott, Hazel, 449
Scott, Walter, 4
Screen Writers Guild, 151, 155
Scribner’s, 116
Seaver, Edwin, 291
Seid, Ruth, 125–27, 206–7
“Cleveland’s Negro Problem,” 126–27
The Wasteland, 210, 222
“They Gave Us Jobs,” 127
Selective Service Act, 249
Seltzer, Louis, 118, 129, 131
Sembène, Ousmane:
Black Docker, 367–68
God’s Bits of Wood, 368
Senate Armed Services Committee, 249
Shaft (film), 483
Shakespeare, William, Macbeth, 443
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 293
Sharpeville massacre, South Africa, 476
Sheffield, Horace, 186
Shipley, Ruth B., 287
Shuffle Along (musical), 154
Siegel, Rosalyn, 458
Signifying Monkey (folklore character), 190, 250
Silberman, James, 358–59, 360, 371
Silberman, Noel, 358
Simmons, Art, 395, 468
Simms, Hilda, 216
Simpson, Clinton, 228
Sims, Marian, 240
Sinatra, Frank, 258
Sinclair, Jo (nom de plume), 125
Sinclair, Upton, 293
Sine, Robert, 449
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 464
Siskel, Gene, 482
Sky Above, the Mud Below, The (film), 413, 415
slavery:
Arab slave trade, 445, 450
and Civil War, 4–5
economic effects of, 13
emancipation, 10, 467
forced sexual relations in, 2
in Himes’s family history, 1, 2–4, 9, 24, 37, 63, 503
history of, 42, 467
slaves as personal property, 3
and Uncle Tom mentality, 37
Smith, Bill (in Vermont), 166–68, 264, 267, 285, 287
God Is for White Folks (Will Thomas, pseud.), 235–36
The Seeking, 286
Smith, Charles, 39
Smith, Gus “Bunch Boy,” 67, 68–69, 72, 74
Smith, Helen, 235, 264, 267
Smith, Hoke, 18
Smith, Lillian, Strange Fruit, 201
Smith, Ray, 142
Smith, William Gardner (in Paris), 296–97, 300, 362, 367, 385, 386, 393
Anger at Innocence, 296
contacts of, 307, 351, 353, 446–47
and Himes’s writing, 296, 447
socializing, 297, 360, 369, 392, 395, 403, 408
South Street, 296, 317
The Stone Face, 447–48
and Thompson, 307, 359
SNCC, 418
Snook, James Howard, 82
socialism, 162, 447, 452
Socialist Workers Party, 242, 408, 423
social realism, coining the term, 288
Soon, One Morning (anthology), 409, 424
Soul (TV), 487
Sousa, John Philip, 35
South Africa, apartheid in, 467
Soviet Union, and India, 161
Spain:
book market in, 473
Himes and Packard in, 472–73, 478, 481
racism in, 473
Spanish Civil War, 113, 150, 160, 189, 472–73
SS Ryndum, 348
Stein, Gertrude, 219, 225
Stein and Day, 441, 448, 454, 455
Steinbeck, John, 329, 390
Stevens, Shane, 480
Stevens, Simon, 79
Still, William Grant, 149
Stinson, Hydar, 16
Stokes, Ronald, 418
Story, 160
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 194
Straus, Roger, 422
Stravinsky, Igor, 219
Styron, William, 292, 330–31
Lie Down in Darkness, 331
Suez Canal, 373
Sumner, Charles, 46
Sunday, Slim, 327, 353
Super Fly (film), 483
Supreme Court, U.S., 127, 151, 321–22, 465
surrealism, 372
Survey Graphic, 230, 234
Sussex Village, New Jersey, 258–59
Sutton, Percy, 420
Swan, Oliver, 352
Sweeney, Edward, 252
Sweet-and-Hot (musical), 173
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song (film), 483
Taft, William Howard, 32
Tarantino, Quentin, 476
Targ, Rosalyn Siegel, 458, 465, 466, 469, 473, 475, 480, 485, 496, 497
Targ, William, 238, 283, 290, 310, 468
and End of a Primitive, 321, 323–24
and My People, 325–26, 458
and Putnam, 458, 482, 486
and Silver Altar, 311, 313, 314, 320
socializing, 466, 475
and The Cord/Third Generation, 278–79, 285, 305, 306, 313, 318, 323–24, 458
and World Publishers, 278, 285, 305, 306, 309, 310–11, 313, 320, 323, 325, 326, 458
Taube, Everet, 412
Taylor, Recy, 194
Tehran, summit meeting in, 160
Thatch, Cornalee, 74
Thé, Dr., 327, 330
This Is New York (radio), 239
Thomas, Preston E., 81, 83, 84, 85–86
Thomas, Will (pseud.), 236
Thompson, Lewis B., 15
Thompson, Willa, 290–92, 359
affair of Himes and, 302–3, 307–9, 311–14, 315–16, 318, 319, 322–23, 324–28, 336, 340–41, 342–43, 360, 369, 380, 428, 434, 443
ending of the affair, 323, 326, 330, 333–35, 337, 343, 351, 361, 363
Garden Without Flowers, formerly The Silver Altar, 352, 363
and Himes’s writing, 369, 376, 443, 464–65, 488
and Jean, 333, 340, 343
in London, 307–9, 311–14
in Mallorca, 314, 315–16, 318–19, 322, 324–27
and money, 302, 326, 327, 328
as Mrs. Trierweiler, 352
in New York, 333–43
in Paris, 302, 327, 328, 331, 347
and race, 313, 314, 319, 337–39
The Silver Altar, 291–92, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 318, 319–20, 321, 333–34
, 336–37, 343, 352, 361
using alcohol and drugs, 322, 328, 336
Thompson, W. O., 62
Thurman, Wallace, 206
Till, Emmett, 346
Tillich, Paul, 219
Time, 283, 292, 310, 393, 442, 478, 489
Times Literary Supplement (London), 254, 461
Tolson, Melvin B., 182, 367
Rendezvous with America, 188
Tolstoy, Leo, 181
Tomorrow, 263
Trask, Spencer and Sylvia, 251
Tribune de Lausaune, 383
Trilling, Lionel, 288, 361
Trotsky, Leon, 101
Troupe, Quincy, 488, 494
Truman, Harry S., 249, 250
Trumbo, Dalton, 150–51, 172
Turner, Gabriel, 175
Turner, Mary, 31
Turner, Nat, 175
Turpin, Waters, 145
Tuskegee Institute, 17, 125
Twentieth Century–Fox, 155
Underground Railroad, 235
UNESCO, 301
Union Leader, 131
United Artists, 474
United Auto Workers–CIO, 186
United Nations, 161, 446
United States:
black president of, 468
civil rights movement in, 170, 353–54, 356, 359, 362, 363, 378, 386, 414, 418, 419, 420, 426, 438, 442, 444–45, 467
cultural shift in, 480
imperialism in, 451
race relations in, see race
United States military, segregation in, 168, 173, 178, 187, 242, 249
Universal Military Training Act, 249
University of Chicago, 254
University of Mississippi, 426
Updike, John, 464
Urban League, 121, 124, 162, 168–69, 189
Beaux Arts Ball, 168–69, 402
USA, 288
U.S. Army Communications Zone Europe, 397
U.S. Navy, 165, 178
USO (United Service Organizations), 178, 197
Uzzell, Thomas, 117
Van Bracken, Frank, 353
Van Peebles, Melvin, 441–43, 455, 457, 458, 468, 483, 487
“Harlem on Fire,” 444
Story of a Three-Day Pass, 441
Van Vechten, Carl, 314, 367, 462
contacts of, 228, 251
death of, 452
Himes’s letters to, 98, 105, 223, 226, 235, 258, 305, 397, 414, 425, 436, 438, 448, 495
Himes’s requests for help from, 244, 257, 281–82, 325
and Himes’s writing, xiii, 224–25, 226, 232, 234, 238, 260, 280, 327, 329
Nigger Heaven, 226
photographs and paintings of, 281, 421
on social issues, 219, 275
socializing, 98, 219–20, 237, 335, 344
and Yaddo, 236, 252
and Yale collection, 220, 407
Vardaman, James, 36
Verdi, Giuseppi, Il Trovatore, 35–36
Vidal, Gore, The City and the Pillar, 261
Virginia Ravers, 65
Vogue, 448
Volstead Act (1919), 60
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 464
Wallace, Flo, 79
Wallace, Henry A., 221
Warner, Jack, 156, 460
Warner Bros., 152, 155–56