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“John Henry,” 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 11.1
John Murray Anderson’s Almanac, 7.1–7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2
Johnson, Dotts, 7.1–7.2
Johnson, James Weldon, 1.1
Johnson, Lyndon B., 14.1–14.2
administration of, 1.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 16.1–16.2, 16.3
Jones, Clarence, 11.1, 13.1–13.2, 13.3, 13.4–13.5, 13.6–13.7, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 16.2, 20.1
Jones, Ike, 11.1
Jones, James, 14.1
Jones, LeRoi, 16.1
Jones, Quincy, 15.1, 17.1, 18.1–18.2, 19.1
Jubilee Records, 5.1
“Jumpin with Symphony Sid,” 5.1
Jump Up Calypso, 12.1
Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 4.1, 4.2
Justice Department, U.S., 6.1, 12.1, 12.2, 15.1
civil rights division of, 1.1, 19.1
Justin, John, 9.1, 10.1
Kadár, Ján, 17.1
“Kalenda Rock,” 7.1
Kameron, Pete, 6.1–6.2, 9.1–9.2
Kaminska, Ida, 17.1
Kanin, Fay, 18.1–18.2
Kansas City (film), 19.1–19.2, 19.3
Kantor, Jay, 11.1
Katherine Dunham Dance Company, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 12.1–12.2
Katz, Charlie, 9.1–9.2
Kay, Monte, 4.1, 5.1–5.2, 5.3–5.4, 12.1
Kelly, Gene, 8.1, 9.1, 11.1
Kempton, Murray, 13.1
Kennedy, Ethel, 12.1–12.2
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 11.1, 11.2
Kennedy, Janet Alterman, 8.1–8.2, 9.1, 9.2–9.3, 10.1–10.2, 12.1, 14.1–14.2
Kennedy, Jay Richard, 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 10.1–10.2, 12.1, 19.1
as FBI informer, 9.1–9.2, 14.1–14.2
as HB’s adviser and manager, 8.1–8.2, 9.1–9.2, 9.3–9.4, 14.1, 14.2
Kennedy, John, Jr., 11.1
Kennedy, John F., 7.1, 11.1
administration of, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.1–14.2, 14.3
assassination of, 1.1, 14.1–14.2, 17.1
civil rights bill urged by, 14.1–14.2, 14.3, 14.4
HB and, 8.1, 11.1, 11.2–11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1
inaugural gala for, 11.1–11.2, 19.1
1960 presidential campaign of, 11.1, 11.2–11.3
Kennedy, Joseph P., 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1
Kennedy, Joseph Patrick, II, 20.1–20.2
Kennedy, Robert F., 7.1, 19.1, 20.1
assassination of, 16.1
as Attorney General, 1.1, 11.1–11.2, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4, 12.5, 13.1–13.2, 13.3–14.1, 14.2, 14.3–14.4, 15.1
HB and, 1.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4, 13.1–13.2, 13.3–13.4, 13.5, 13.6–13.7, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3–14.4, 15.1, 16.1–16.2
presidential campaign of, 16.1, 16.2
Kenya, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1–14.2, 18.1, 18.2
Kenyatta, Jomo, 14.1, 18.1
Kerr, Walter, 8.1
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 7.1, 8.1–8.2, 12.1
Killens, John Oliver, 5.1, 7.1, 11.1
King, Alan, 13.1
King, Bernice Albertine, 13.1, 16.1, 20.1
King, Coretta Scott, 11.1–11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1–15.2, 16.1–16.2, 20.1–20.2
King, Dexter, 16.1
King, Larry, 19.1–19.2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1–11.2, 12.1–12.2, 12.3–12.4, 13.1–13.2, 14.1–14.2, 14.3, 15.1–15.2
anti-war and “poor people’s” initiatives of, 15.1–15.2, 16.1–16.2, 16.3, 16.4–16.5
arrests and jailing of, 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 12.2–12.3, 13.1, 13.2–13.3
assassination of, 16.1, 16.2–16.3, 16.4
extramarital affairs of, 15.1–15.2
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (continued)
HB and, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1–9.2, 10.1, 10.2–11.1, 11.2–11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6–11.7, 11.8–11.9, 12.1–12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3–13.4, 14.1–14.2, 15.1–15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.5, 15.6, 16.1–16.2
“I Have a Dream” speech of, 14.1
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” of, 13.1
Nobel Peace Prize of, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
King, Martin Luther, Sr., 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2–15.3
King, Martin Luther, III, 16.1, 20.1
King, Yolanda, 16.1, 20.1
King Center, 16.1–16.2, 20.1
Kingston, 1.1, 3.1–3.2, 9.1, 18.1
Kingston Trio, 1.1–1.2
Kirk, Andy, 4.1
Kirkpatrick, Ted, 7.1
Klein, Robert, 6.1
Klein Bonaire, 18.1–18.2
Kootz, Samuel, 4.1
Korda, Zoltan, 18.1
Korean War, 6.1
Kragen, Ken, 18.1–18.2, 18.3, 18.4
Krim, Arthur, 11.1, 11.2, 18.1
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4–1.5, 1.6, 4.1–4.2, 8.1, 10.1–10.2, 12.1–12.2, 14.1–14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 15.1, 19.1
Kupcinet, Irv, 1.1
labor unions, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 18.1–18.2, 20.1–20.2
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, 18.1
Lake, Anthony, 19.1
Lanchester, Elsa, 6.1
Lansky, Meyer, 17.1
Lanza, Mario, 8.1
Last Supper (film), 20.1–20.2
Las Vegas, Nev., 3.1, 6.1–7.1, 7.2, 9.1–9.2, 10.1–10.2, 13.1–13.2
Caesar’s Palace in, 8.1, 10.1, 15.1–15.2, 17.1–17.2, 19.1
Frontier in, 10.1–10.2
Moulin Rouge in, 10.1–10.2
organized crime in, 10.1–10.2, 10.3–10.4, 13.1, 17.1
Riviera in, 8.1–8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2–10.3, 10.4–10.5, 13.1–13.2, 13.3, 15.1
Sahara in, 10.1
Sands in, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1
Thunderbird in, 6.1–6.2, 8.1–8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1–13.2
Laughton, Charles, 8.1–8.2, 11.1
Lawford, Peter, 11.1, 13.1
“Lean on Me,” 5.1, 5.2
Ledbetter, Huddie “Leadbelly,” 4.1, 6.1–6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Lee, Bernard, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
Lee, Canada, 7.1, 11.1
Lenny, Uncle, 2.1–2.2, 2.3–2.4, 3.1, 6.1, 12.1, 15.1, 19.1
Letterman, David, 6.1
Levison, Stan, 13.1, 14.1–14.2, 14.3–14.4, 14.5, 16.1–16.2, 16.3, 16.4
Lewis, Anthony, 13.1, 16.1
Lewis, John A., 11.1, 11.2
Lewis, John L., 14.1
Lewis, John R., 12.1–12.2, 13.1–13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 19.1, 19.2
Liberace, 8.1
Liberia, 3.1, 6.1
Library of Congress, 6.1–6.2, 6.3
Folkways series of, 6.1
Life, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 15.1
Light, James, 4.1
Lillies of the Field (film), 11.1, 15.1
Lincoln, Abraham, 11.1
Lindenberg, Udo, 17.1–17.2
Lindsay-Hogg, Michael, 20.1
Little Red School House, 7.1
Little Rock, Ark., 11.1
Liuzzo, Viola, 15.1–15.2
Live Aid, 18.1–18.2
Liz, Aunt, 2.1–2.2, 3.1–3.2, 15.1
HB’s theft from, 3.1, 10.1
Jimmy Hines and, 2.1–2.2
numbers operation of, 2.1–2.2, 3.1, 3.2
Lomax, Alan, 6.1–6.2, 6.3
London, 4.1, 8.1, 11.1–11.2, 16.1, 17.1, 18.1
Gaumont State Theatre in, 10.1–10.2
Royal Albert Hall in, 10.1
Wembly Stadium in, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
London Philharmonic, 3.1
Long, Eddie, 20.1–20.2
Long Road to Freedom, The, 19.1
Look, 8.1
Los Angeles, Calif., 4.1, 6.1, 7.1–7.2, 9.1, 10.1–10.2, 11.1–11.2
Cocoanut Grove in, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Greek Theatre in, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 19.1
rioting and burning of Watts in, 15.1–15.2
Los Angeles Police Department, 6.1, 19.1
Los Angeles Times, 11.
1
Louis, Joe, 2.1, 2.2–2.3, 4.1, 15.1–15.2
Love, Jane (grandmother), 10.1, 17.1
family life of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1–3.2
HB’s relationship with, 2.1–2.2, 3.1–3.2, 18.1
Scottish background of, 2.1
“Lover,” 5.1
Lowery, Joseph, 20.1
Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 15.1–15.2
Lucas, Frank, 15.1
Luciano, Lucky, 2.1
Luftwaffe, 4.1
Lumumba, Patrice, 15.1–15.2
Lyceum Theatre, 6.1
lynching, 1.1, 4.1–4.2, 4.3–4.4, 5.1, 11.1, 14.1
Lynne, Gloria, 11.1
Lyons, Oren, 19.1
Lysistrata (Aristophanes), 4.1
Mabuza, Lindiwe, 18.1
MacDougall, Ranald, 11.1
Machito and His Orchestra, 5.1
Makeba, Miriam, 11.1–11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1–14.2, 15.1, 16.1–16.2, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1
Malamud, Bernard, 17.1
Malcolm X, 12.1–12.2, 13.1, 14.1, 17.1
Mambo (film), 9.1
Mamoulian, Rouben, 10.1
Man and Superman (Shaw), 8.1
Manchurian Candidate, The (film), 14.1
Mandela, Nelson, 11.1–11.2, 11.3, 14.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2–18.3
as president of South Africa, 19.1
prison release of, 16.1, 18.1–19.1
Mandela, Winnie, 18.1–18.2, 18.3–18.4
Manhattan School of Music, 11.1
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 4.1
Manley, Michael, 3.1, 18.1–18.2
Mann, Anthony, 8.1, 9.1
“Man Smart (Woman Smarter),” 6.1–6.2, 8.1
March, Fredric, 13.1
March on Washington (1963), 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 14.1–14.2, 14.3, 19.1
King’s historic speech at, 14.1
participants and performers at, 14.1–14.2
planning of, 13.1–14.1, 14.2–14.3
Marek, George, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1
marijuana, 5.1, 5.2
Marines, U.S., 10.1
“Mark Twain,” 7.1
“Mark Twain” and Other Folk Favorites, 7.1, 9.1
Maroff, Achar, 11.1, 12.1–12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1–15.2, 16.1
Marquette, Pee Wee, 5.1, 5.2–5.3
Marshall, Burke, 1.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Marshall University, 17.1
Martin, Dean, 8.1, 10.1, 13.1
Martinique, 3.1
Marxism, 4.1, 7.1
Masekela, Hugh, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1, 18.1
Mason, James, 9.1, 9.2
Mason-Dixon Line, 4.1, 10.1, 14.1
“Matilda,” 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2
Matthau, Walter, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1
Mattioli, Luisa, 18.1
May, Elaine, 6.1
Mayer, Gerald, 6.1
Mayer, Louis B., 6.1
Mazique, Edward, 17.1–17.2, 19.1
Mazique, Frances Marguerite Byrd Belafonte, see Belafonte, Frances Marguerite Byrd
Mbeki, Thabo, 19.1
Mboya, Tom, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 18.1
MCA, 7.1, 8.1–8.2, 8.3, 11.1
McCarran Act (1950), 5.1, 6.1, 10.1, 14.1
McCarthy, Eugene, 16.1
McCarthy, Joseph, 1.1–1.2, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1
McCray, Gina Belafonte, see Belafonte, Gina
McCray, Maria (granddaughter), 19.1–19.2, 20.1, 20.2
McCray, Scott, 19.1–19.2, 20.1
McDonald, David, 13.1
McGhee, Brownie, 12.1, 19.1–19.2
McGhee, Howard, 5.1
McGivern, William, 11.1
Me and My Shadow (Silber), 10.1
Meany, George, 13.1
“Melancholy Baby,” 8.1
Memphis, Tenn., 16.1–16.2
Mengistu Haile Mariam, 18.1–18.2
mento bands, 3.1
“Merci Bon Dieu,” 6.1
Meredith, James, 13.1, 15.1
Merman, Ethel, 11.1, 11.2
Merrick, Mike, 11.1, 15.1
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 6.1–6.2, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1–11.2
Mexico, 7.1, 9.1–9.2
Miami, Fla., 4.1, 5.1–5.2, 12.1
Colored Town in, 5.1–5.2
Eden Roc Hotel in, 8.1–8.2, 12.1, 17.1
Five O’Clock Club in, 5.1–5.2, 8.1
segregation in, 5.1–5.2, 8.1
“Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” 12.1
Mico School, 3.1
Middleman, What Now?, 5.1
Midnight Special, 12.1–12.2, 17.1
“Midnight Special,” 12.1
Miller, Arthur, 4.1, 17.1
Millinder, Lucky, 2.1
miscegenation, 5.1
Mississippi, 1.1–1.2, 12.1, 14.1–14.2
civil rights volunteers in, 1.1–1.2, 1.3–1.4, 12.1, 13.1–13.2, 14.1–14.2
HB’s trip to, 1.1–1.2, 14.1–14.2
murder of three civil rights workers in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 14.1
segregationists in, 1.1–1.2, 1.3–1.4
Mississippi, University of, 13.1, 15.1
Mississippi Freedom Democratic party (MFDP), 14.1–14.2, 14.3, 16.1
Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964), 1.1–1.2, 1.3–1.4, 14.1–14.2
Mitchell, Arthur, 11.1
Modern Jazz Quartet, 11.1, 11.2
“Mo Mary,” 6.1
Monroe, Marilyn, 7.1, 13.1
Montego Bay, 18.1
Montero, Frank, 11.1–11.2
Montgomery, Ala.
bus boycott in, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1–12.2, 14.1, 15.1, 19.1
City of St. Jude in, 15.1–15.2
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in, 9.1, 15.1
march from Selma to, 15.1, 15.2–15.3
Montgomery Improvement Association, 9.1, 9.2, 12.1, 14.1
Montreal, 1.1, 11.1, 17.1
Moonbirds (Aymé), 11.1
Moon Is Blue, The (film), 7.1
Moore, Brew, 5.1
Moore, Roger, 18.1–18.2, 19.1
Morehouse College, 17.1–17.2
Morris-Knibb, Mary, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Morris-Knibb Preparatory School, 3.1–3.2, 3.3, 17.1
Morrow, Hugh, 13.1, 13.2–13.3
Moscow, 4.1, 6.1, 17.1
Moses, Bob, 13.1–13.2, 14.1, 14.2–14.3, 15.1
Mostel, Zero, 7.1–7.2, 17.1
Mouskouri, Nana, 15.1–15.2, 15.3
Muni, Paul, 4.1
Museum of Modern Art, 9.1
Mussolini, Benito, 4.1
Nash, Diane, 12.1, 12.2
Nassau, 4.1, 15.1, 20.1
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 6.1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 6.1, 10.1, 11.1–11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 18.1, 19.1
National Medical Association, 17.1
Nation of Islam, 14.1
Naval Station Great Lakes, 4.1–4.2
Robert Smalls camp at, 4.1–4.2
Navy, U.S., 3.1
HB’s service in, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 8.1, 8.2, 18.1
NBC, 16.1–16.2, 18.1, 18.2–18.3, 19.1
“Nearness of You, The,” 5.1
Neme, Maurice, 18.1–18.2
Neubauer, Peter, 2.1, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 20.1, 20.2–20.3
Newby, Dorothy, 4.1
Newby, Vincent, 3.1
Newman, Paul, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1, 19.1
New Republic, 13.1
New School for Social Research, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2
Dramatic Workshop of, 4.1–4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5–4.6, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3–5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
New Seville, 18.1–18.2
Newton, Huey, 15.1, 16.1
New York, N.Y, 1.1, 2.1–2.2
Broadway theater in, 4.1, 4.2–4.3, 4.4, 4.5–4.6, 7.1–7.2
Bronx, 3.1, 4.1
City Hall in, 4.1
Greenwich Village in, 4.1–4.2, 6.1–6.2, 8.1
HB’s West End Avenue apartment in, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 11.1–11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1–13.2, 20.1
Hell’s Kitchen in, 4.
1
Lewisohn Stadium in, 7.1
Little Italy in, 6.1
Lower East Side of, 5.1, 9.1
Lying-In Hospital in, 2.1
Madison Square Garden in, 2.1, 2.2, 9.1, 13.1
off-Broadway theater in, 4.1, 4.2–4.3, 5.1
organized crime in, 2.1, 5.1–5.2, 8.1
police and political corruption in, 2.1–2.2, 2.3
Polo Grounds in, 2.1
Queens, 7.1, 7.2–7.3
Rikers Island prison in, 16.1
Staten Island, 4.1
Upper East Side of, 2.1–2.2
see also Harlem
New York Amsterdam News, 10.1
New York City Ballet, 11.1
New Yorker, 8.1, 11.1, 16.1
New York Giants, 2.1
New York Herald Tribune, 8.1
New York Journal-American, 8.1
New York 2.1, 11.1–11.2, 11.3–11.4
New York Police Department (NYPD), corruption in, 2.1, 2.2
New York Post, 7.1, 10.1, 13.1, 18.1
New York Times, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Nicholas, Harold, 6.1–6.2
Nicholas Brothers, 6.1
Nichols, Mike, 6.1
Niger River, 18.1
Night with Belafonte, A, 9.1
Nimitz, Chester William, 4.1
92nd Street Y, 4.1–4.2
Nixon, Richard M., 11.1, 11.2–11.3, 16.1
Nkruma, Kwame, 16.1
“Noah,” 9.1
North Carolina, University of, 8.1
North-South All-Star football game, 8.1–8.2
Novak, Kim, 10.1–10.2, 11.1, 11.2
No Way Out (film), 4.1, 7.1
numbers racket, 2.1–2.2, 2.3, 3.1
Obama, Barack, 12.1, 19.1, 20.1
Obama, Barack, Sr., 12.1
O’Casey, Sean, 4.1, 4.2
Ocho Rios, 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 18.1
Odds Against Tomorrow (film), 11.1–11.2, 17.1
Odds Against Tomorrow (McGivern), 11.1
O’Dell, Jack, 14.1–14.2
Odets, Clifford, 4.1, 4.2
Odetta, 11.1, 11.2
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), 4.1–4.2, 5.1, 6.1
“Oh No, John,” 6.1
“Ol’ Man River,” 4.1
O’Neill, Eugene, 4.1
On Strivers’ Row (Hill), 4.1–4.2
“On Top of Old Smokey,” 8.1
organized crime, 2.1, 5.1–5.2, 6.1–6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1–10.2, 10.3–10.4, 13.1, 15.1–15.2, 17.1
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 17.1
Othello (Shakespeare), 4.1, 4.2
O’Toole, Peter, 15.1
Page, Geraldine, 17.1