abolitionism, 4.1–4.2
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 4.1
Academy Awards, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 15.1
“Acorn in the Meadow,” 7.1
Actors Studio, 6.1, 14.1, 19.1
Adler, Richard, 7.1
AFL-CIO, 13.1, 18.1
Africa, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1–12.2, 16.1–16.2, 17.1 17.2
famine aid in, 18.1– 18.2
African Americans, 1.1– 1.2
in armed services, 4.1– 4.2, 4.3, 4.4– 4.5, 4.6, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1–14.2, 16.1–16.2
Caribbean vs. American-born, 2.1– 2.2, 4.1–4.2
intellectual, 4.1–4.2, 7.1, 13.1
middle-class, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
“talented tenth” of, 4.1
typical acting roles of, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
Uncle Tom image of, 2.1, 11.1
“uppity,” 8.1
violence against, 1.1–1.2,4.1, 12.1, 14.1
see also civil rights movement; racism; segregation; slavery
African-American Students Foundation, 12.1
African National Congress (ANC), 11.1, 11.2, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3–18.4, 19.1
Afro-Germans, 19.1– 19.2
Aikens, Vanoye, 12.1
Ailey, Alvin, 9.1
Alabama, 5.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2–12.3, 13.1, 15.1–15.2
Alabama, University of, 14.1
Alabama National Guard, 15.1
Albany, Ga., 12.1– 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Albany Movement, 12.1– 12.2, 13.1
Alejándrez, Nane, 19.1, 20.1
Alexander the Great (film), 9.1
Algeria, 12.1, 12.2
Ali, Muhammad, 15.1
Allen, Steve, 11.1
Allen, Woody, 6.1
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 4.1
All the King’s Men (Warren), 4.1
Alonso, Alicia, 17.1
Alswang, Ralph, 14.1, 15.1
Altman, Robert, 19.1– 19.2, 20.1
American Communist party, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 14.1–14.2, 17.1
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, 18.1
American Indian movement, 16.1
American Labor Party, 6.1
American Negro Theatre (ANT), 4.1–4.2, 4.3– 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7–4.8, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 18.1
American Socialist party, 4.1
Amin, Mohamed, 18.1, 18.2
Amos ‘n’ Andy, 2.1, 3.1, 19.1
Anderson, John Murray, 7.1
Anderson, Maxwell, 4.1
Andy Williams Show, The, 11.1
“Angelina,” 8.1
Angel Levine, The (film), 17.1
Angelou, Maya, 20.1
Anna Lucasta (Yordan), 4.1
Annan, Kofi, 19.1
Ann-Margret, 9.1
“Another Man Done Gone,” 6.1
Another Night in the Free World, 19.1– 19.2, 19.3– 19.4
anticolonialism, 6.1
anticommunism, 1.1–1.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2– 7.3, 10.1, 12.1, 17.1
anti-Semitism, 2.1, 18.1, 19.1
Arab-Israeli War (1947–49), 15.1
Arafat, Yasir, 18.1
Archer, Osceola, 4.1– 4.2, 4.3
Aristophanes, 4.1, 5.1
Arkin, Alan, 9.1
Armstrong, Louis, 10.1
Army, U.S., 4.1, 13.1
“A Rovin,” 6.1
Arthur, Bea, 4.1, 4.2
Atkinson, Brooks, 7.1, 8.1
Atlanta, Ga., 13.1, 15.1, 18.1
Attaway, Bill, 6.1– 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 9.1– 9.2, 13.1, 15.1
Attaway, Fran Scott, 6.1
Autori, Joe, 12.1
Avedon, Richard, 17.1
Aware, 7.1
Aymé, Marcel, 11.1
Ayob, Ismail, 18.1
Baca, Leroy D., 19.1
Baez, Joan, 1.1, 12.1, 14.1, 15.1
Bahamas, 4.1, 15.1– 15.2, 20.1
Bailey, Pearl, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1
Baker, Ella, 10.1, 12.1
Baldwin, James, 13.1– 13.2, 14.1
“Banana Boat Song,” 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 18.1
Bankhead, Tallulah, 10.1
Baraka, Amiri, 16.1
Barnett, Ross, 13.1
Barrios Unidos, 19.1, 20.1
Barry, Marion, 18.1
baseball, 17.1
integration of, 4.1
Basie, Count, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 19.1
Batista, Fulgencio, 17.1
Baumgarden, Dave, 8.1
BBC, 3.1, 18.1
Bean, Orson, 7.1
Bears, Mrs., 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Beatles, 14.1, 17.1
Beat Street (film), 17.1
Beaver Lodge, 4.1, 4.2
bebop, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 11.1
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 3.1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 3.1
Begley, Ed, 11.1
Behrens, Sam, 17.1, 20.1
Behrens, Shari Belafonte, see Belafonte, Shari
Belafonte, 9.1–9.2, 9.3
Belafonte, Adrienne Michelle (daughter), 5.1, 17.1–17.2, 19.1
childhood and adolescence of, 6.1, 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 12.1–12.2, 17.1, 17.2
marriage and family of, 17.1–17.2, 17.3, 19.1
Belafonte, Amadeus (grandson), 20.1, 20.2
Belafonte, David (son), 10.1, 17.1–17.2, 17.3, 19.1–19.2, 20.1, 20.2–20.3
childhood and adolescence of, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 17.1, 17.2
sound engineering of, 17.1, 19.1, 19.2
Belafonte, Dennis (brother), 17.1, 18.1
anger and loneliness of, 3.1, 4.1, 17.1
childhood and adolescence of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3–3.4, 4.1, 10.1, 17.1
education of, 3.1, 17.1
heart attack and early death of, 3.1, 17.1–17.2
physical appearance of, 2.1
as U.S. Marine, 10.1
Belafonte, Frances Marguerite Byrd (first wife), 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 10.1, 17.1–17.2
death of, 19.1
divorce of HB and, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 10.1–10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
family background of, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 5.1
HB’s relationship with, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8–5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1–6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1–7.2, 7.3–7.4, 7.5, 7.6–7.7, 7.8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1–10.2, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4, 17.1
marriage of HB and, 4.1–4.2
physical appearance of, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1
pregnancies and childbirths of, 4.1–5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 17.1
Belafonte, Gina (daughter), 12.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3–17.4, 19.1–19.2, 19.3, 20.1, 20.2
Belafonte, Harry, 1.1–1.2
acting career of, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5–4.6, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 6.1–6.2, 7.1–7.2, 9.1–9.2, 10.1–10.2, 11.1–11.2, 19.1–19.2, 20.1–20.2
anger of, 1.1–1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1–6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 20.1
“attitude” of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
band and musical arrangements of, 6.1, 11.1
birth of, 2.1, 2.2
blacklisting of, 7.1–7.2
black role models of, 1.1, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
Broadway appearances of, 1.1, 9.1
broken leg of, 3.1
childhood and adolescence of, 1.1–2.1, 2.2–3.1, 8.1, 12.1, 18.1
club-circuit touring of, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1–5.2, 6.1–6.2, 6.3–6.4, 6.5–6.6, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2–10.3
dyslexia of, 2.1, 4.1
early Catholic training of, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 7.1, 16.1, 18.1
early singing of, 2.1
education of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1–4.2, 7.1, 17.1
Emmy Award of, 11.1
European tours of, 10.1–10.2, 17.1–17.2, 18.1
fame of, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 8.4–8.5, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
fatherhood of, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1–12.2, 12.3, 17.1–17.2, 20.1–20.2
first acting role of, 4.1–4.2
first recording of, 5.1
first singing break of, 5.1–5.2
first theater experience of, 4.1–4.2
folksinging of, 6.1–6.2, 6.3–6.4, 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 9.1–9.2, 11.1, 19.1–19.2
“Frenchy” nickname of, 3.1, 4.1
fundraising of, 1.1–1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2–13.3, 14.1
gambling of, 3.1–3.2, 10.1–10.2, 13.1–13.2, 19.1, 20.1
Grammy Awards of, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1
Hollywood screen test of, 6.1, 6.2
honorary degree of, 3.1, 17.1
honors and awards of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1–18.2, 19.1, 19.2
income of, 5.1–5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 13.1
interracial background of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1, 7.1
military imprisonment of, 4.1–4.2, 5.1
National Medal of Arts bestowed on, 18.1
New York Film Critics Circle Award of, 19.1, 19.2
nonviolence embraced by, 1.1, 9.1, 19.1
odd jobs of, 3.1, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1
perfectionism of, 12.1
physical appearance of, 8.1–8.2
piano lessons of, 2.1, 5.1
political activism of, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2–4.3, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1–7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1–10.2, 10.3, 10.4–10.5, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4
production ventures of, 9.1–9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2–11.3, 17.1–17.2, 17.3, 18.1–18.2
prostate cancer of, 20.1–20.2
psychotherapy of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 8.1–8.2, 9.1–9.2, 10.1–10.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 17.1, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2–20.3
recordings of, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2–6.3, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1–9.2, 9.3–9.4, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1–12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 17.1–17.2
right eye blinding accident of, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1
screen debut of, 6.1–6.2
singing career of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1–5.2, 5.3–5.4, 6.1–6.2, 6.3–6.4, 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1–17.2
sports interests of, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
theater workshop training of, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2–5.3, 6.1, 6.2
throat problems of, 7.1–7.2, 9.1–9.2, 14.1–14.2, 19.1
Belafonte, Harry (continued)
Tony Award of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Village restaurant of, 6.1–6.2
West Indian heritage of, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1–2.2, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 17.1–17.2, 17.3
white role models of, 2.1
youthful poverty of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4–2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 10.1
Belafonte, Julie Robinson (second wife), 1.1, 1.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 17.1–17.2, 18.1–18.2
background and education of, 7.1–7.2
dance career of, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
divorce of HB and, 20.1–20.2
HB’s relationship with, 7.1–7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1–10.1, 10.2, 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 12.2–12.3, 17.1, 17.2–17.3, 19.1–20.1, 20.2–20.3
marriage of HB and, 9.1–10.1, 11.1
physical appearance of, 7.1
pregnancies and childbirths of, 9.1–9.2, 10.1, 12.1, 17.1
Belafonte, Malena Knopf Mathieson, 19.1, 20.1
Belafonte, Melvine Love “Millie” (mother), 1.1, 2.1–2.2, 17.1, 18.1–18.2
alcoholism of, 3.1, 4.1
Catholic faith of, 2.1, 3.1, 15.1
childhood of, 2.1, 2.2
cooking of, 2.1–2.2, 3.1
death of, 18.1–18.2
depression and self-pity of, 11.1–11.2, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1–18.2
domestic work of, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 3.1
first marriage of, 2.1
HB’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4–2.5, 2.6, 2.7–3.1, 3.2–3.3, 3.4–3.5, 3.6–3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1–10.2, 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1–18.2
illegal immigrant status of, 2.1–2.2, 3.1
immigration to New York by, 2.1–2.2
interracial background of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3–2.4
physical appearance of, 2.1, 3.1
political views of, 3.1, 4.1
pregnancies and childbirths of, 2.1–2.2, 3.1–3.2
second marriage of, 3.1–3.2, 4.1
separation and divorce of, 3.1
tailoring and dyeing work of, 2.1–2.2, 3.1
Belafonte, Pamela Frank (third wife), 20.1–20.2, 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6
Belafonte, Sarafina (granddaughter), 20.1, 20.2
Belafonte, Shari (daughter), 7.1, 12.1, 17.1–17.2, 17.3, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2–20.3, 20.4
acting and modeling of, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1
birth of, 7.1
childhood and adolescence of, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 12.1–12.2, 17.1, 17.2
Belafonte Arts and Media, 20.1
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall, 11.1
Belafonte at the Greek Theatre, 14.1
Belafonte Enterprises, Inc. (BEI), 9.1– 9.2, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 17.1
Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall, 11.1
Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean, 10.1
Belgium, 10.1–10.2, 17.1, 18.1–18.2
Bellamy, Carol, 19.1
Bellanfanti, Edith (stepmother), 3.1, 3.2, 17.1–17.2
Bellanfanti, Harold (father), 17.1
cooking jobs of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1–3.2, 3.3
death of, 17.1–17.2
first marriage of, 2.1
HB’s relationship with, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1–3.2, 3.3–3.4, 3.5, 8.1, 17.1–17.2
interracial background of, 2.1, 2.2–2.3
Millie’s relationship with, 2.1, 2.2–2.3, 2.4–2.5, 2.6, 2.7–2.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 5.1, 17.1
philandering of, 2.1
physical appearance of, 2.1
second marriage of, 3.1
violence and drunkenness of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3–2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 4.1
Bellevue Hospital, 10.1
Bennett, Tony, 15.1, 15.2
Bergen, Polly, 7.1
Berlin, 4.1, 8.1, 10.1, 19.1
West-East divide in, 10.1, 10.2
Bernard, Viola, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1
Bernstein, Leonard, 11.1
Bethany Day Nursery, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1
Bevel, James, 13.1, 15.1
Biden, Joe, 20.1
Biden, Neilia Hunter, 20.1
Biesemeyer, Adrienne Michelle Belafonte, see Belafonte, Adrienne Michelle
Biesemeyer, Brian (grandson), 17.1, 20.1
Biesemeyer, David, 17.1
Biesemeyer, Rachel Blue (granddaughter), 17.1, 19.1, 20.1
Big Party, The, 11.1– 11.2
Biko, Stephen, 14.1
Billboard, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Birdland, 5.1, 8.1
Birmingham, Ala., 12.1, 13.1, 13.2– 13.3
four girls murdered in, 14.1
sit-ins and protests in, 13.1–13.2, 13.3–13.4, 13.5–13.6, 13.7–13.8, 14.1
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in, 13.1, 14.1
Birns, Shondor, 6.1
Bishop, Joey, 10.1, 13.1
Bizet, Georges, 7.1
black diaspora, 3.1
blacklisting, 1.1, 7.1– 7.2, 9.1, 11.1– 11.2
black nationalism, 3.1
Black Panthers, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 15.2–15.3, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 19.1
Black Power, 15.1, 16.1
Black Reconstruction in America (Du Bois), 20.1
Blackwell, Chris, 19.1–19.2, 20.1
Blake, Eubie, 17.1
Blanchard, Nina, 17.1
Blood on the Forge (Attaway), 6.1
Blue, Willie, 1.1–1.2
Blue Angel, 6.1, 7.1
blues, 6.1, 12.1–12.2, 13.1
Body and Soul (film), 11.1
Bogart, Humphrey, 3.1
Bond, Julian, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 19.1
Botha, P. W., 18.1, 18.2
Bourguiba, Habib, 11.1
Boutwell, Albert, 13.1, 13.2
Boyer, Charles, 8.1
Boyle, Greg, 20.1
Braddock, Jimmy, 2.1
Branch, Taylor, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
B
rando, Marlon, 1.1–1.2, 4.1, 18.1–18.2, 19.1
Broadway and film career of, 4.1–4.2, 7.1
HB and, 4.1–4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2–7.3, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 14.2
Bratton, Bill, 19.1
Bread and Roses, 20.1–20.2
Brecht, Bertolt, 4.1
Breen Office, 7.1
Bright Road (film), 6.1–6.2, 7.1, 7.2
Briloff, Abe, 13.1–13.2
British Empire, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1
Britt, May, 11.1
Brokaw, Tom, 18.1
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), 9.1–9.2
Brooklyn Dodgers, 4.1
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 2.1–2.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
Brothers Keepers, 19.1
Brown, H. Rap, 15.1
Brown’s Town, 3.1
Brown v. Board of Education, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 17.1
Brussels, 10.1–10.2
Brussels World Fair, 10.1
Brynner, Yul, 7.1–7.2
Buck and the Preacher (film), 17.1–17.2
Buerk, Michael, 18.1
Bulge, Battle of, 10.1, 10.2
Bunche, Ralph, 15.1
Burgess, Lord, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 10.1
Bush, George H. W., 18.1, 18.2, 20.1
Bush, George W., 19.1–19.2, 20.1–20.2, 20.3–20.4
Byrd, Mimi, 5.1–5.2, 6.1–6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1–12.2, 17.1, 17.2
Byrd, Robert, 14.1
Byrd family, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4–4.5, 4.6, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 17.1
Cabin in the Sky (film), 7.1
Café Society, 5.1, 6.1
Cagney, James, 2.1
Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The (Wouk), 8.1, 8.2
Calloway, Cab, 2.1, 8.1
Calypso, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 9.4
calypso music, HB’s singing of, 6.1–6.2, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3–9.4, 9.5–9.6, 9.7, 10.1, 11.1
Camorra, 16.1
Camp Pendleton, 10.1
Camp Shoemaker, 4.1
Cananova, 2.1
Canby, Vincent, 17.1–17.2
Candida (Shaw), 4.1
capitalism, 4.1, 15.1, 16.1
Capitol Records, 5.1, 5.2
Capote, Truman, 7.1
Carmen (Bizet), 4.1, 7.1–7.2
Carmen Jones (Broadway play), 4.1, 7.1
Carmen Jones (film), 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 12.1
Carmichael, Stokely, 14.1, 15.1–15.2, 15.3–15.4, 16.1–16.2
Carnegie Hall, 1.1–1.2, 5.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 17.1–17.2
HB’s appearances at, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Carnival (Attaway), 6.1
Carroll, Diahann, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1–15.2, 20.1
Carson, Johnny, 16.1–16.2, 16.3
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