Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Abarbanell, Lina, and n
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke, and n
Abbott’s Monthly, 4.1 and n
Abdul, Raoul, 16.1n, 16.2, 16.3; Hughes’s letters to, 16.4
Abernethy, Milton, n
abolitionism
Abrahams, Peter, itr.1, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3; Tell Freedom, itr.2, 12.4 and n, 12.5
Achebe, Chinua, itr.1, 14.1n
Adam, Georges, and n
Adamic, Louis, n
Adams, Arminta, and n
Adams, Edward C. L., Congaree Sketches, 4.1 and n
Addams, Jane, 4.1n, 5.1 and n, 10.1n
Addison, Lloyd, 16.1, 16.2 and n
“Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria,” and n
Africa, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1n, 4.2n, 5.1n, 6.1 and n, 12.1 and n, 12.2 and n, 12.3 and n, 12.4, 13.1, 13.2n, 13.3, 13.4, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 and n, 14.4 and n, 15.1 and n; Hughes in, 2.2, 14.5 and n, 14.6 and n, 14.7 and n, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3. See also specific countries
African American culture, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2n, 5.1, 5.2n, 5.3n, 5.4 and n, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1n, 12.1, 12.2n, 13.1n, 14.1, 14.2n; “low-class,” 3.3, 3.4n, 4.1n, 4.2. See also Harlem; Harlem Renaissance; specific culture
African Saga, The, 4.1 and n
African Treasury, An, itr.1, 12.1 and n, 13.1 and n, 14.1 and n, 14.2
“African Woman,” n
Afro, The, 4.1 and n
Agrarians, n
Aguglia, Mimi, and n
Ailey, Alvin, 14.1, 14.2 and n, 15.1
Alabama, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3n, 10.1, 15.1
Alexander, Lewis, and n
Algonquin Round Table, n
Ali, Muhammad, see Clay, Cassius
Allen, James Latimer, 5.1 and n, 7.1 and n; portrait of Hughes, 1.1
Allen, Samuel, 13.1 and n, 14.1; “Negritude and Its Relevance to the American Negro Writer,” 13.2n
Almanac Singers, n
Alston, Charles Henry, and n
American Academy in Rome, n
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 14.1n, 14.2n
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), n
American Mercury, The, 1.1n, 3.1 and n, 6.1, 6.2 and n, 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3
American Negro Theatre, n
American Play Company, 8.1n, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
American Red Cross, itr.1, 10.1 and n, 10.2
American Society of African Culture (AMSAC), n
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 11.1 and n, 11.2, 13.1
“America’s Young Black Joe,” 9.1 and n, 10.1
Amram, David, 15.1n, 15.2
Amsterdam News, 1.1n, 1.2n, 1.3, 12.1n, 12.2
Anderson, Eddie “Rochester,” and n
Anderson, Judith, and n
Anderson, Marian, 8.1 and n, 8.2, 8.3, 12.1, 13.1
Anderson, Maxwell, n
Anderson, Robert, Tea and Sympathy, 14.1 and n
Angelo Herndon Jones, 8.1 and n
Angulo, Jaime de, 7.1, 7.2 and n
anthologies, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1n, 2.1 and n, 12.1 and n, 12.2 and n, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1 and n. See also specific anthologies
Antioch Baptist Church, Brooklyn, n
Anvil, The, 7.1 and n
Apollo Theater, Harlem, n
Aragon, Louis, 6.1 and n, 8.1, 8.2
Arden, Elsie, 7.1 and n, 8.1
Armstrong, Louis
Art Students League, New York, and n
Asia, 7.1 and n
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, itr.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3 and n, 14.4 and n, 14.5 and n, 14.6, 14.7, 14.8
Associated Negro Press, 9.1n, 12.1 and n, 12.2
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 3.1n, 16.1 and n
Atkins, Russell, and n
Atlanta University, 12.1 and n, 12.2n
Atlantic Monthly, The, 4.1, 14.1n
Attaway, Ruth
Auden, W. H., itr.1, 16.1n
Authors’ League of America, n
autobiographies, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 9.1, 9.2 and n, 9.3 and n, 12.1 and n, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1. See also specific works
Avedon, Richard, photograph of Hughes by, 15.1
Azikiwe, Benjamin “Zik,” itr.1, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3, 13.2; “To Lincoln,” 12.4n

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 7.1 and n, 10.1
Bailey, Susie Elvie, and n
Baker, Josephine, 3.1n, 4.1, 16.1, 16.2 and n
Baldwin, James, itr.1, itr.2, prf.1, 12.1 and n, 14.1 and n, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1; Another Country, 14.2 and n; Go Tell It on the Mountain, itr.3, 12.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3, 14.3; Nobody Knows My Name, 14.4 and n; Notes of a Native Son, itr.4, 13.1 and n; “Two Protests Against Protest,” 12.4 and n
Baldwin, Roger, and n
Balieff, Nikita, n
“Ballad of Booker T.,” and n
“The Ballad of Margie Polite,” and n
“The Ballad of Roosevelt,” and n
ballet, n
Baltimore, 3.1 and n, 4.1n, 4.2, 12.1, 12.2n
Baltimore Afro-American, 8.1n
Banks, Paul, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Barnes, Albert C., and n
Barnett, Claude, 12.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.2
Barnett, Etta Moten, and n
Baroja, Pio, 1.1 and n, 1.2, 4.1 and n
Barr, Stringfellow, and n
“Barrel House: Northern City,” and n
Barrier, The, itr.1, 3.1n, 11.1n, 12.1, 12.2 and n, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2
Barrymore, Ethel, 3.1 and n, 4.1, 4.2
Barrymore, John, and n
Barthé, Richmond, 9.1 and n, 9.2
Basie, Count, n
Bass, George Houston, 14.1 and n, 14.2, 15.1n, 16.1
Bat Theatre of Moscow, and n; see also Chauve-Souris
Battle, Samuel Jesse, 12.1 and n, 12.2n
“Battle of Harlem,” 12.1 and n, 12.2 and n
BBC, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 and n
Beals, Carlton, and n
Beauvoir, Simone de, n
Beavers, Louise, 8.1 and n, 8.2
Beckett, Samuel, n
Becton, Rev. George Wilson, and n
Belafonte, Harry, 13.1 and n, 15.1n, 15.2 and n, 16.1
Belasco, David, n
Bell, Mary, and n
Benin, and n
Benny, Jack, n
Bentley, Gladys, 6.1 and n, 6.2
Berlin
Berlin, Irving, n
Bernard, Emily
Bernays, Eric, and n
“Berry,” 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3, 14.1
Berry, Faith
Best, Ed, and n
Best of Simple, The
Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present, The, 16.1 and n, 16.2n
Bethune, Lebert, and n
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 5.1, 5.2 and n, 10.1n, 11.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 5.3
Bethune-Cookman College, and n
Bevan, Aneurin “Nye,” and n
Biddle, Katherine Garrison, and n
“Big Meeting,” 7.1, 14.1
Big Sea, The, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1n, 1.2n, 1.3n, 1.4n, 1.5n, 1.6n, 2.1, 2.2n, 2.3n, 2.4n, 2.5n, 2.6n, 2.7n, 3.1n, 4.1n, 4.2n, 4.3n, 4.4n, 4.5n, 7.1n, 9.1, 9.2 and n, 9.3n, 9.4, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3n, 14.1; publication of, 9.5, 9.6
“Bill of Rights Salute to Freedom” show, and n
Binga, Jesse, and n
Bishop, John Peale, 3.1 and n, 3.2
Bizet, Georges, Carmen, 10.1n
“Black and White” film project, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1n
Black Arts movement, itr.1, 13.1n
Blackburn, Roy C., 7.1 and n, 7.2, 13.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 13.2
Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment, 16.1 and n
Black Man’s Point of View, The, 4.1, 4.2 and n
Black Nationalist literary tradition, n
Black Nativity (film), 14.1n
Black Nativity (musical play), 14.1, 14.2 and n, 14.3n, 15.1 and n, 15.2; success of, 14.4n
Black Orpheus (film), 14.1 and n
“A Black Pierrot,” 1.1n, 1.2, 2.1n
Black Power movement, 12.1n, 14.1
black theater movement, n
Blake, Eubie, n
Blake, William
Blakely, Henry, and n
Blanchard, Mary, 9.1 and n, 11.1
Blankfort, Henry, 9.1 and n, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Bledsoe, Jules, and n
Block, Henry, 3.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 3.2, 3.3
“Blood on the Fields” (play), 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3n
blues, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1n, 3.1, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 3.4 and n, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and n, 3.9 and n, 3.10 and n, 3.11, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3n, 6.1n, 9.1, 9.2 and n, 12.1, 12.2n, 13.1 and n, 14.1
Boas, Franz, 3.1n
Boatman, David, n
“Bodies in the Moonlight,” n
Boles, Glen, and n
Bolshevik Revolution
“Bon-Bon Buddy,” n
Bond, Horace Mann, 11.1n, 14.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 11.2
Bond, Julian, 14.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 14.2
Bonds, Margaret, 8.1 and n, 9.1, 10.1
Bontemps, Alberta, 9.1, 9.2n, 10.1n
Bontemps, Arna, itr.1, prf.1, 2.1n, 4.1 and n, 5.1 and n, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3n, 8.1 and n, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2n, 9.3, 9.4n, 9.5n, 9.6 and n, 10.1, 10.2 and n, 10.3n, 10.4, 10.5n, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3n, 13.1, 13.2n, 13.3, 13.4n, 14.1n, 16.1n, 16.2; Hughes’s letters to, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7, 13.8, 13.9, 13.10, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 15.1, 15.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6, 16.7; “A Summer Tragedy,” 16.8 and n
Bookman, The, 1.1 and n, 1.2
Book of Negro Folklore, The, 13.1, 13.2 and n, 13.3, 14.1
Book of Negro Humor, The, 16.1 and n
Boone, John William “Blind,” and n
Borzoi Broadside, The, 3.1 and n
Boston, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 12.1
Boston Post, The, 4.1n
Bouvier, Yvonne, and n
Bovell, Woody
boxing, 4.1 and n, 9.1n, 13.1n, 14.1 and n, 15.1n
“Boy of the Border,” and n
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 2.1 and n; Anthology of American Magazine Verse, 2.2n
Brazil
“Breath of a Rose,” and n
Brecht, Bertolt, 11.1n, 15.1n
Breman, Paul, 14.1 and n, 16.1 and n
Brice, Carol, 14.1, 14.2n
Bricktop (Ada Smith), and n
Bridson, Douglas Geoffrey, and n
Brinig, Myron, and n
Broadway, itr.1, 1.1 and n, 1.2 and n, 1.3 and n, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3, 4.1n, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4n, 4.5 and n, 6.1n, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2n, 9.1 and n, 9.2n, 9.3n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 11.1n, 12.1 and n, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1n, 14.2n, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 and n; first successful African American show, 1.4 and n; Mulatto production and controversy, 8.3, 8.4 and n, 8.5 and n, 8.6 and n, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10 and n, 11.2n, 11.3 and n. See also plays and musicals; specific shows, theaters, and genres
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The, 7.1n
Brooks, Gwendolyn, itr.1, prf.1, 11.1, 12.1 and n, 14.1n; Annie Allen, 12.2n; Hughes’s letters to, 14.2
“Brothers,” and n
Brough, Walter, and n
Brown, James, and n
Brown, John, itr.1, 4.1n, 10.1 and n
Brown, Oscar, Jr., and n
Brown, Panama Al, and n
Brown, Sterling, and n
“Brown America in Jail: Kilby,” and n
Brownies’ Book, The, 1.1n
Buck, Pearl, and n
bullfighting, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1
Bunche, Ralph, 12.1 and n, 12.2
Burleigh, Henry “Harry” Thacker, and n
Bush, Samuel, 14.1, 14.2n
Bushnell, Simeon, n
Buttita, Anthony, n
Bynner, Witter, and n