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Maraniss family, 23–25
in photograph, 258, 259–60, 305
Marley, Harold, 128, 143
Marranos, 23–24, 28, 211, 294
Marshall, E. G., 310
Marshall Plan, 247
Martin, Joe, 249
Marxism, 13, 64, 79, 131, 206, 234, 235, 236, 267, 335
Mason, Gabriel R., 27–34, 136
Mather, Cotton, 290, 294–95
Matsui House, 220, 224
Mattes, Joe, 71
Matthews, Clive G., 336
Matthews, Herbert L., 101, 107
Matthews, Joseph Brown, 317
Maund, Al, 338–44
Maund, Dorothy, 341
Maund, Steve, 341, 342
Mayben, Heywood, 64
Mayer, Louis B., 321
Mays, Willie, 313
McCarran Internal Security Act, 13
McCarthy, Joseph, 5, 37, 236, 251, 316–19, 344, 348, 352
Army-McCarthy hearings, 316, 318, 319, 348
death of, 343–44, 345
Eisenhower and, 316–18
“I have here in my hand” speech of, 37, 251, 271–72
McCarthy era, 5, 9, 37, 272, 310, 316, 319, 330, 343, 348, 353, 354; see also anticommunism and Red Scare
Potter and, 316–18
McClellan, John L., 316
McConnell, Samuel, 248–49
McCormick, Kenneth, 119
McGohey, John, 237, 242
McGuire, S. R., 162
McMillin, Miles, 348
McPhaul, Arthur, 40, 151
Medina, Harold R., 227, 236–38, 241–42, 244–45, 271
Meisner, Tom, 212
Meloon, Bob, 339, 344
Men in Battle (Bessie), 107
Merriman, Robert Hale, 93, 94, 106
Michener, James, 153
Michigamua, 124–25
Michigan Chronicle, 233–34
Michigan Daily, 33, 70, 71, 75–77, 79–84, 91, 95, 99, 102, 103, 106, 124, 128, 134, 138, 142, 151, 163, 164, 230–31, 310–11, 314
Bob Cummins at, 75, 77, 79, 82–84, 124, 231, 358
Elliott Maraniss at, 106, 117, 124, 126, 129–31, 133–48, 162–66, 201
liberal perspectives at, 130
Miller at, 33, 76, 77, 79, 310–11
neutrality position at, 140–42
Perspectives, 124, 137, 146
Michigan Freedom of the Press Club, 278
Michigan Herald, 122, 263–67, 331
Michigan Historical Records Survey, 138, 160
Michigan School of Social Science, 267
Michigan Six, 309, 312–13
Michigan Vanguard Club, 79–80, 231
Michigan Worker, 122, 266, 267, 271, 278, 282–83
Miller, Arthur, 27–28, 30, 33, 76–82, 138, 292–94, 330, 332
All My Sons, 293, 333
The Crucible, 297, 300, 310, 332
Death of a Salesman, 30, 292, 293, 330, 332–33
HUAC and, 332–35, 345
Kazan and, 293–94
marriage to Monroe, 332–34
at Michigan Daily, 33, 76, 77, 79, 310–11
Neafus and, 77, 80, 82, 84–85, 102–3, 105
Salem witchcraft trials and, 292–94, 296–97, 310
at University of Michigan, 33, 76–77, 80–82, 102–3, 143, 292, 310–11
Ward and, 231–32
Milton, John, 222
Mintz, Morton, 164–66
Mitchell, Clarence, 321–22
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 139
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact), 8, 139–42, 144, 161
Monroe, Marilyn, 332–34
Moody, Blair, 39
Morris, Newton Augustus, 44–53, 55, 56
Muhlenberg, John Peter, 323–24
Mundt, Karl, 316
Munich Agreement, 126, 139
Murphy, Brenda, 299
Murphy, Frank, 125
Murrow, Edward R., 339
Mussolini, Benito, 31, 70, 80, 90, 133, 140
Mutnick, George, 158
Mutnick, Margie, 158, 169, 189, 193–94
My America (Adamic), 136–37
NAACP, 58–60, 65, 232, 322, 353
Nadeau, Louis P., 146
Naismith, James, 73
Naming Names (Navasky), 16, 166, 256
Nation, 145
National Archives, 3–4, 5, 121
National Labor Relations Board, 247
National Lawyers Guild, 232
National Negro Congress, 65, 66
National Negro Labor Council, 64, 66
National Youth Administration (NYA), 134, 146, 161–62
Native Son (Wright), 146–47
NATO, 37, 247, 280
Navasky, Victor, 16, 166, 256
Nazi Germany, 30, 33, 41, 66–67, 75, 80, 81, 126, 133, 140, 158, 161, 219
atrocities of, 203
Battle of the Bulge and, 177
Guernica bombed by, 91–92
Japan and, 218
Munich Agreement and, 126, 139
Soviet Union attacked by, 161
Soviet Union’s pact with, 8, 139–42, 144, 161
Spanish Civil War and, 91–92, 100
Neafus, Ralph, 77, 80, 82, 118, 138
in Spanish Civil War, 83–85, 90–96, 102–6, 113–14, 118, 133, 191, 249, 358
Neely, Matthew M., 232
Negrín, Juan, 114, 115
Nelson, Carlyle L., 168
“New Colossus, The” (Lazarus), 304
New Deal, 30–31, 37, 82, 130–31, 138, 224, 330
New Masses, 206
New Republic, 145
Newspaper Guild, 261, 269, 285, 286, 295, 296, 315
New York, N.Y., 31, 303–5, 351
see also Brooklyn, N.Y.
New York Herald Tribune, 110, 115
New York Post, 162, 169
New York Times, 23, 31, 53, 91, 101–2, 107, 116, 338, 350
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 263
Nixon, Richard, 13, 60, 229–30, 248, 251, 256, 298, 317, 344, 352
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 37, 247, 280
Norton, S. H., 56
Nuremberg Trials, 219
Nye, Wilma, 82
Oahu, 204–5
Obama, Barack, 73
O’Connor, Tom, 306
Odessa, 24, 304
Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, The (Carroll), 190–91
Ogden, John C., 290
Okinawa, 10, 193, 207–11, 217, 262, 288
Oney, Steve, 47, 50–52
Order of Red Men, 53
Organizational Services, Inc. (OSI), 329–31, 336
Orwell, George, 7
Otto, William B., 103, 104
Papineau, Louis-Joseph, 93
Paradise Lost (Milton), 222
Paris, SS, 116–17
Parks, Rosa, 185
Parsons, Louella, 269–70
Patria, 306
Patterson, William, 321
Patton, George S., 177, 203
Patton, Joe, 20
peace movement in 1930s, 31–33, 80, 133
Pearl Harbor, 10, 157, 163, 190, 218, 261, 288
Pearson, Drew, 249–51, 320–21
Peck, Jedediah, 290
Peekskill Evening Star, 240
Percy Jones General Hospital, 255, 354
Perlman, Selig, 329–30
Perspectives, 124, 137, 146
Petersen, Carl, 124, 134, 140–41, 144, 148
Phagan, Mary, 45–48, 53
Philadelphia Record, 185
Picasso, Pablo, 91
Pius XII, Pope, 125
Plinton, Walton, 185, 202, 204
Pohly, Henry, 194
Poland, 139–41
polio, 260, 270, 342–43, 356, 358
poll taxes, 40, 41, 43, 246–47
Polson, Bridget, 122–23
Pool, J. Lawrence, 268
Portner, Stuart, 160
Port of Spain, 158–59
Potter, Charles E., 174, 254–57, 344, 354
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sp; Days of Shame, 9, 318–19, 354
death of, 354
“good American families” comment of, 257, 259
on HUAC, 254, 256–57, 318
in HUAC Detroit hearings, 9, 35–36, 39, 58, 59, 65–67, 118, 123, 152, 174, 316
McCarthy and, 316–18
Senate career of, 152, 255, 309, 316, 354
war injuries and amputation of legs, 9, 66, 178, 179, 254–57, 354
World War II service of, 9, 174–78, 179, 254–55, 257
Pound, Ezra, 335
Pritchard, B. W., 225–26
Pritchard, Samuel J., 225–26
Progressive Book Store, 13
Progressive Club, 80
Progressive Party, 266–67, 277, 331
Purdy, Anabel, 189
Purdy, Gladys, 189, 190
Purdy, Harry, 189–91
Purdy, Robert, 189–91, 273
Quartermaster Corps, 167–68, 173, 179, 188
Quint-City Labor’s Daily, 336–44, 351
race and racism, 7, 8, 42, 181, 186, 243–44, 304
communism and, 41–42, 59, 228, 243–44, 353
in Detroit, 170–71, 172, 233–35
in Georgia, 43, 66, 251, 252
HUAC hearings and, 58–68
Maraniss’s command of all-black company, 3, 173, 179–88, 192–94, 196, 202–14, 266
slavery, 55, 60, 180, 186, 230, 353
voting and, 40, 41, 43–44, 66, 68, 243–44, 246–47, 252, 348
World War II and, 170–72, 179–81, 266
see also segregation
Randolph, Woodruff, 343
Rankin, John, 40, 55, 65, 246, 247, 252, 254
Rauh, Joseph, 334
Rayburn, Sam, 38–39
Reeves, Willie, 185, 202, 205
Republican Party, 37–38, 151–52, 206, 229, 249, 252, 256, 272, 317, 321
Requena, Andres F., 306
Reuther, Walter, 18, 234, 263, 330
Rhodes, Oscar, 17
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 139
Richter, Betty, 329, 336
Richter, Irving, 329–30, 336
Robertson, Absalom Willis, 223
Robertson, Pat, 223
Robeson, Paul, 41–42, 140, 239–42, 314, 326, 357
Robinson, Jackie, 41–42, 58, 240, 264–66, 275, 313
Robinson, Mack, 265
Robinson, Sugar Ray, 150
Rohr, Bill, 127
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 145–46, 242
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 30, 37, 74, 103, 104, 117, 125, 130–31, 146, 164, 179, 189, 223–24, 267, 289
death of, 194
Rosa, Robert, 141, 142
Rosen, Al, 313
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 36–37, 312
Rowe, Kenneth T., 81
Runyan, Damon, 264
Russell, Richard B., Jr., 55
Russell, Richard B., Sr., 55
Russia, 24
see also Soviet Union
Ruthven, Alexander, 125
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 138
Salem Witchcraft (Upham), 297
Salem witchcraft trials, 290, 292–97, 310
Sandburg, Carl, 349
Sans Pareil, 90, 94
Saturday Evening Post, 298, 338
Schine, G. David, 318
Schneider, Irving, 23, 25–27, 29
Schorr, Norm, 144
Scientific American, 134
Scottsboro Nine, 227–28, 244
Seeger, Pete, 127, 241, 323–27
segregation, 247
in baseball, 41, 42, 170, 264–66
de facto, 59, 180, 230, 234
desegregation, 9, 55, 354
Jim Crow, 55, 58, 59, 64, 66, 170, 172, 180, 181, 184, 230, 244, 247
in military, 173, 179–80, 184–85
Service, Elman, 80, 358
in Spanish Civil War, 83, 85, 90–95, 102, 106, 107, 110–17, 133, 249, 358
Shaw, George Bernard, 132, 349
Sheean, Vincent, 110, 113, 115
Shenandoah Herald, 222
Sherborne, Robert, 46
Sherwood, Madeleine, 310
Sigler, Kim, 263
Sillen, Samuel, 206
Slaton, John, 47
slavery, 55, 60, 180, 186, 230, 353
Slosson, Preston W., 130, 141
smallpox, 218
Smith, Al, 313
Smith, Howard W., 228
Smith Act, 228–29, 277–78, 309, 312–13, 324, 345, 355
Snow Village, 312, 313
Socialist Workers Party, 229
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 60
Sonneborn, Harry L., 144
Soviet Union, 15, 16, 60, 64, 67, 94, 100, 132, 139, 161, 229–30, 235, 253, 254, 261, 272, 275, 296, 304, 335, 339, 359
atomic weapons of, 36, 229
in cold war, 16, 36–37, 42, 58, 60, 225, 229, 240
Finland invaded by, 144–46, 164
Germany’s attack on, 161
Germany’s pact with, 8, 139–42, 144, 161
labor camps in, 60
Marshall Plan and, 247
Robeson and, 42, 239–41
show trials in, 131–32
Spanish Civil War and, 80, 93, 100, 115
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and, 218, 219, 224–25
Spain, 23–24, 128, 133, 140, 141, 191
Spain in Our Hearts (Hochschild), 101, 140
Spanish Civil War, 9, 16, 32, 68, 80–81, 84–85, 90–117, 125, 133, 140, 161, 249–50, 267, 309
Abraham Lincoln Brigade in, 88, 89, 92, 93, 106, 110, 114, 115, 162, 190–91, 240, 254, 360
Alcañiz and Iglesia del Carmen in, 101–2, 105, 106, 133
Americans in, 92, 101–5, 254
Camp Lukács in, 99
Cummins in, 9, 69, 71–72, 83–85, 87–89, 90–102, 104, 106–10, 112–17, 124, 125, 127, 133, 161, 170, 190, 191, 249, 260, 327, 358, 360, 361
Elliott Maraniss and, 103, 132–33
Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and, 92, 102, 107–9
Fuentes de Ebro battle in, 96–97, 99, 191
George Washington battalion in, 92, 109
Germany and, 100
Guernica bombing in, 91–92
International Brigade in, 80, 83, 92, 95–96, 98, 99, 104, 106, 109, 190, 235, 309, 327
Mackenzie-Papineau battalion (Mac-Paps) in, 92–96, 99–102, 106, 107, 109, 112, 114, 115, 327
maps of, 111
Spanish Civil War (Continued)
Neafus in, 83–85, 90–96, 102–6, 113–14, 118, 133, 191, 249, 358
Service in, 83, 85, 90–95, 102, 106, 107, 110–17, 133, 249, 358
songs from, 326–27
Teruel battle in, 100, 106, 133
U.S. neutrality toward, 103, 132–33
Spanish Inquisition, 23, 290, 294
Spence, Herman, 50
Spinoza, Baruch, 24, 28–29
Spinoza Quarterly, 29
Spokesman-Review, 106
Stalin, Joseph, 131, 140, 229, 247, 312
Stanky, Ed, 265, 275
Stanley, Leon, 204
Starkey, Marion, 292–93
State Department, U.S., 37, 103, 230
Statue of Liberty, 303–4
Steinbeck, John, 146–47
Stevenson, Adlai, 307, 331
Stilwell, Joseph, 207, 212
Stone, I. F., 305–6, 334
Student Workers Federation, 82–83
Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB), 12–14, 20, 277, 320, 354
Sugar, Maurice, 234, 235, 267, 330
Suitt, R. Burke, 268
Sunderland, Edson, 163–64, 166
Supreme Court, U.S., 130, 152, 309, 345
Swados, Harvey, 134, 143
Swinton, Stanley M., 70–71, 82, 84, 95, 104, 113–14, 124, 144
Symington, Stuart, 316
Taft, Robert, 280
Taft-Hartley Act, 247–49, 266
Tanaka, Ryukichi, 225
Tavenner, Frank S., Jr., 86, 217–26, 304, 322–26, 354–55
apple business of, 86, 218, 221–23, 226, 252, 322–23, 355
Big Jim McLain and, 298–300
death of, 354
gravestone of, 355
on HUAC, 252–53, 256, 319, 324–26, 334, 354
in HUAC Detroit hearings, 9, 39, 58, 59, 61–65, 68–69, 86–89, 118, 120–22, 217, 221, 226, 280–83, 285–86, 297
Seeger and, 324–26
as Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal chief counsel, 9, 217–21, 224–26, 252, 354
World War I service of, 217, 223, 354
Tavenner, Frank S., Sr., 218, 221–23
Tavenner, Sarah, 220
Teamsters, 229
television, 38, 120, 150
Tennessean, 46–47
Tennessee Valley Authority, 130
Terkel, Studs, 68
Tew, Fred, 62
They Too Arise (Miller), 81–82
Thomas, Dylan, 134
Thomas, John Parnell, 40–41, 249, 250
Thomas, R. J., 233
Thompson, Jerry, 46
Thomson, Bobby, 275
Thoreau, Henry David, 28, 136, 222
Time, 142
Timebends (Miller), 293
Tojo, Hideki, 218, 219
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, 9, 217–21, 224–26, 252, 354
Tolan, Eddie, 264–65
Trinidad, 157–59, 161, 167, 201
Trotsky, Leon, 229
Trout, Bob, 182, 209
Trujillo, Rafael, 306
Truman, Harry S., 37–38, 229, 236, 246, 254, 267, 272, 280
Trumbo, Dalton, 249
Tuck, William M., 354
Turner, Edward N., 58–61
Twelve Horsemen Civic Center, 263
Typhoon Ida, 213
“un-American” label, 6, 8, 9, 201
United Auto Workers (UAW), 18, 79, 170, 233, 234, 330
Crockett and, 233, 234
Local 600 of, 18–19, 41, 58
Reuther as head of, 18, 234, 330
strike of, 81, 82, 128
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 55
United Nations, 319
University of Michigan, 70–72, 74, 76, 88, 89, 123, 129–30, 142, 143, 151, 158, 162, 197, 360
Bob Cummins at, 9, 71, 74, 75, 79–80, 83, 87, 89, 125
Crockett at, 230–32
Elliott Maraniss at, 33, 77, 82, 124–25, 129–30, 134, 136–38, 146, 147, 160–64
map of mid-campus, 78
Michigan Daily at, see Michigan Daily
Miller at, 33, 76–77, 80–82, 102–3, 143, 292, 310–11
Spanish Civil War and, 102, 103, 117
Ward at, 231–32
University of Wisconsin, 349, 357
Upham, Charles, 297
Valparaiso Vidette-Messenger, 253
Vandenberg, Arthur, 39
Vanguard Club, 79–80, 231
Vasiliev, A. N., 225
Vella, Susan, 355–57
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), 241, 319
Virgil, Ozzie, 265
Vishinsky, Andrei Y., 132
Wage Earner, 262–63
Walker, Gordon, 19
Wallace, Henry, 104, 266–67, 326
Walsh, Chad, 143–44
Walter, Erich, 138