Oakland Public Library, and n
Ober (Harold) Agency, 12.1 and n, 13.1n
Oberlin, Ohio, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2n
Oberlin College, 3.1 and n, 3.2
Oberlin-Wellington rescue case, and n
O Blues!, 4.1 and n
O’Brien, Edward, and n
Odetta, 14.1 and n, 14.2n, 15.1
Office of Civilian Defense, 10.1, 10.2n
“Official Notice,”
Of Men and Books, 10.1 and n
Ogot, Grace, and n
Ohio, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
“Old Ghost” character, and n
Omega Psi Phi fraternity, 4.1 and n, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1
O’Neal, Frederick, and n
O’Neill, Eugene, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1; Anna Christie, 1.1 and n; The Emperor Jones, 4.2 and n
“One More ‘S’ in the U.S.A.,”
“One-Way Ticket,”
One-Way Ticket, 1.1n, 5.1n, 11.1; illustrations, 11.2 and n, 11.3, 11.4
“On Missing a Train,” and n
“On the Road,” 7.1 and n, 14.1
“Open Letter to the South,”
opera, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 1.1 and n, 1.2 and n, 4.1 and n, 8.1n, 9.1n, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2 and n, 12.3, 13.1 and n, 13.2 and n, 14.1 and n, 14.2n. See also specific works
Opportunity, 1.1n, 3.1, 3.2 and n, 4.1n, 4.2, 4.3n, 4.4, 5.1n, 7.1n, 16.1n, 16.2n
Osuya, Sunday, itr.1, 15.1 and n
Oswald, Marianne, and n
Ottley, Roi, New World A-Coming, 10.1 and n
“Our Land,” 1.1, 1.2 and n
Our World, 12.1 and n, 15.1n
“Out of Work,”
Ovington, Mary White, Portraits in Color, 5.1 and n
Owen, Chandler, 3.1n

Pacific Weekly, 7.1, 7.2n, 8.1 and n
Pagany, 6.1 and n
Palfi, Marion, 10.1 and n; portrait of Hughes with Toy Harper, 10.2
Palms, 3.1 and n, 7.1n
Panama Canal, and n
Panther and the Lash: Poems for Our Times, The, itr.1, 16.1 and n, 16.2 and n
Paret, Benny “the Kid,” and n
Paris, itr.1, 1.1n, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and n, 4.1 and n, 4.2 and n, 4.3, 5.1n, 6.1, 7.1n, 8.1, 14.1n, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2n, 16.3 and n; Hughes in, 2.3 and n, 4.4 and n, 8.2, 14.2, 15.2 and n
Paris Review, The, 12.1 and n, 16.1n
“Park Benching,” n
Parker, Charlie, n
Parker, Dorothy, 8.1 and n, 9.1
Part of the Blues, A, 13.1 and n
Pasionaria, La, and n
“The Paste Board Bandit,” n
Patiño sisters, 4.1 and n, 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3
Paton, Alan, 12.1 and n; Cry, the Beloved Country, 12.2n
Patterson, Lindsay, and n
Patterson, Lloyd, and n
Patterson, Louise Thompson. See Thompson (Patterson), Louise.
Patterson, Vera, and n
Patterson, William L., n
Pauli, Hertha, Her Name Was Sojourner Truth, 14.1 and n
Pedroso, Regino, and n
Pegler, James Westbrook, 10.1 and n; “The White Press Is Fair to Negroes,” 10.2n
PEN, 12.1 and n, 12.2
Pennsylvania, and n
Percy, William Alexander, Lanterns on the Levee, 10.1 and n
Peress, Maurice, and n
“Personal,” itr.1, itr.2, itr.3
Perspectives USA, 12.1 and n
Peterkin, Julia, 4.1n, 7.1; Scarlet Sister Mary, 4.2 and n
Peters, Paul, Stevedore, 7.1 and n, 7.2
Peterson, Dorothy, 8.1 and n, 9.1n, 10.1, 10.2, 15.1; Hughes’s letters to, 8.2, 9.2
Peterson, Jerome “Sidney,” and n
Peyton, Thomas Roy, Quest for Dignity, 12.1 and n
Pharr, Eulah, 6.1 and n, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Phelan, Kappo, and n
Philadelphia, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1 and n, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1 and n
photography, 5.1 and n, 6.1 and n, 6.2 and n, 7.1 and n, 12.1 and n, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 16.1
Pickens, William, 8.1 and n, 8.2, 11.1n, 12.1 and n, 15.1 and n
Pictorial History of the Negro in America, A, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 13.3, 15.1 and n, 15.2
Pitts, Rebecca, and n
Plimpton, George, n
PM, 11.1 and n
“Po’ Boy Blues,” n
“Poem: For the portrait of an African boy after the manner of Gauguin,” and n
“Poem for a Man,” and n
“Poem for Jacques Roumain,” and n
“Poem to a Dead Soldier,” n
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 3.1n, 10.1n
Poetry of the Negro, The, itr.1, 11.1, 11.2 and n, 11.3 and n, 12.1, 14.1, 16.1 and n, 16.2n, 16.3 and n, 16.4 and n, 16.5
Poetry Quarterly, 4.1n
“Poet to Patron,”
Poitier, Sidney, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 15.1n, 16.1
politics, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5, 4.1, 5.1 and n, 11.1n; McCarthy hearings, itr.6, itr.7, 9.1n, 12.1, 12.2 and n, 12.3 and n, 13.1n; radical, 6.1, 6.2 and n, 6.3n, 6.4n, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3 and n, 7.4 and n, 8.1n, 9.2n, 9.3, 9.4n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 11.2n, 12.4, 12.5 and n, 12.6
Pool, Rosey, 14.1 and n, 16.1
“Poor Little Black Fellow,” 6.1 and n, 7.1, 14.1
Popo and Fifina, itr.1, 5.1 and n, 14.1 and n
Porgy and Bess (film), 13.1 and n
Porgy and Bess (opera), 7.1n, 11.1, 12.1
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Port Town, 14.1 and n
“Postcard from Spain: Addressed to Alabama,”
“A Posthumous Tale,” and n
Pound, Ezra, itr.1, prf.1, 5.1n, 5.2 and n, 6.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 5.3, 6.2, 6.3
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., and n
Power, Effie Lee, and n
Preminger, Otto, n
Présence Africaine, 13.1n, 14.1 and n
Price, Gilbert, and n
Price, Leontyne, 14.1, 14.2 and n
Private Jim Crow,” 10.1n
Prix Goncourt, and n
Prodigal Son, The, 15.1 and n
Prohibition, itr.1, 4.1
Provincetown
Provincetown Players, 4.1n, 7.1n
Public Works Administration, and n
publishers. See specific publishers
Pulitizer Prize, itr.1, 1.1n, 3.1n, 12.1n, 12.2n, 12.3n, 13.1n, 14.1n
Pullman, Company, 1.1n
Putnam, John

Qualls, Youra, 12.1 and n, 15.1
“Question and Answer,”
Quinot, Raymond, n

race relations, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1n, 1.2n, 1.3n, 3.1, 3.2n, 4.1, 4.2n, 4.3, 4.4n, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2n, 7.1, 7.2n, 7.3 and n, 7.4, 7.5 and n, 8.1 and n, 8.2 and n, 9.1n, 10.1, 10.2n, 10.3n, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and n, 10.7n, 11.1n, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 14.1n, 14.2 and n, 15.1, 16.1; black stereotypes, 10.8, 12.3, 15.2n; black troops in World War II, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11 and n; civil rights movement, 10.12, 12.4n, 12.5n, 13.2, 13.3n, 14.3n, 14.4n, 14.5n, 15.3, 16.2 and n; in Hollywood, 9.2, 9.3n, 9.4 and n, 9.5n, 10.13, 12.6; lynching, itr.4, 4.5 and n, 10.14; McCarthy Committee, 12.7, 12.8 and n, 12.9 and n; segregated blood, 10.15 and n; segregation, itr.5, 1.4n, 6.3, 9.6n, 9.7n, 10.16n, 10.17n, 10.18 and n, 10.19, 10.20, 10.21 and n, 10.22n, 10.23 and n, 10.24 and n, 11.2n, 12.10, 12.11, 14.6n, 16.3n
Radek, Karl, n
radio, 9.1n, 9.2, 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n, 10.3 and n, 10.4, 10.5 and n, 10.6 and n, 12.1. See also specific programs
ragtime, and n
Rampersad, Arnold, prf.1, 14.1n
Randolph, A. Philip, 3.1n, 10.1n, 11.1, 11.2n, 13.1 and n
Randolph, Richetta, and n
Random House, 12.1n, 14.1n
Ransom, John Crowe, 7.1n, 14.1n
Raphael, Ruth
Rapp, William Jourdan, n
Rauh, Ida, and n
Reading, Bertice, and n
reading tours, itr.1, 5.1, 9.1 and n, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2 and n, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1 and n, 14.2, 14.3 and n
Reagan, Caroline Dudley, 3.1n, 4.1 and n
Red Channels, 12.1 and n, 12.2
“Red Cross,” and n
Redding, J. Saunders, and n
“Red Roses,”
Reed, John, 6.1n; Ten Days That Shook the World, 6.2n; see also John Reed Club
Reese, Della, and n
Reeves, Frank D., itr.1, 12.1, 12.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.3
Reeves, Ruth, 7.1 and n, 8.1
“Refugee in America,” n
“Rejuvenation Through Joy,” 7.1 and n, 9.1n
religion, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 6.1, 9.1 and n, 10.1n, 14.1 and n
Rennels, Mary
Reno, Nevada, 7.1 and n, 7.2 and n, 7.3
Reviewer, The, 3.1 and n
Revue Nègre, La, 3.1 and n, 16.1n
Rhinelander, Alice Jones, and n
Rhinelander, Leonard “Kip,” and n
Rice, Elmer, itr.1, prf.1, 10.1n, 11.1 and n, 12.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.2; Street Scene, 10.2n, 11.2, 11.3 and n, 11.4, 11.5
Richardson, Ben, Great American Negroes, 10.1 and n
Richardson, Willis, The Chip Woman’s Fortune, 8.1 and n
Richmond, Mignon, and n
Ridge, Lola, and n
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rinehart, 9.1n, 13.1
“Rising Waters,” n
Robbins, Harold, The Carpetbaggers, 14.1 and n
Robbins, Jack, and n
Robertson, Mason, and n
Robeson, Eslanda (“Essie”), 4.1 and n, 9.1n
Robeson, Paul, 4.1 and n, 4.2 and n, 4.3 and n, 4.4n, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5n, 9.1, 9.2n, 13.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 9.3
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” and n
Robinson, Edward G., n
Robinson, Jackie, and n
Rockefeller Foundation, n
Roessel, David, n
“Roland Hayes Beaten,” n
Romilly, Rita, and n
Roos, Leslie and Leon, and n
Roosevelt, Franklin, 8.1n, 9.1n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 10.3n, 13.1n, 14.1n, 16.1n
Root, Lynn, n
Rose, Ernestine, and n
Rosenwald, Julius, 5.1 and n, 5.2
Rosenwald Fund, 5.1, 5.2 and n, 5.3n, 5.4 and n, 5.5, 7.1n, 8.1, 9.1n, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 10.3 and n
Rossiter, C. L., 1.1 and n, 1.2
Rotterdam, 2.1, 2.2 and n, 2.3n
Roumain, Jacques, 7.1 and n, 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n; Masters of the Dew, 7.2n, 10.3 and n, 10.4
Rowan, Carl, 14.1 and n, 14.2 and n
Rukeyser, Muriel, and n
Rumsey, John W., 8.1 and n, 8.2, 8.3
Rushing, Jimmy, and n
Russell, Nipsey, n

“St. Louis Blues,” and n
St. Louis Blues, 4.1 and n
St. Louis Woman, 9.1n, 10.1 and n
Salinger, J. D., n
Salisbury, Leah, and n
Samuel French Agency, n
Sandburg, Carl, prf.1, 3.1 and n, 4.1, 11.1n, 12.1; Hughes’s letters to, 11.2; “Mammy Hums,” 11.3 and n
San Francisco, itr.1, 5.1 and n, 5.2, 6.1n, 6.2n, 6.3n, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1 and n, 7.2 and n, 10.1 and n
San Francisco Journal, 7.1n
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Saratoga Springs, New York, 10.1, 14.1
Saroyan, William, 10.1 and n, 10.2
Sartre, Jean Paul, 3.1n; The Respectful Prostitute, 14.1 and n
Saturday Evening Post, The, 9.1 and n, 9.2n
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 3.1n
Savage, Archie, and n
Savage, Augusta, and n
Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, n
Sayler, Oliver Martin, and n
Schine, G. David, and n
Schoenfeld, Bernard, and n
Schulz, Bertha, 1.1 and n, 7.1 and n
Scott, Hazel, n
Scottsboro, Limited, 5.1 and n, 5.2, 6.1 and n, 6.2; cover, 5.3 and n, 5.4
Scottsboro Boys, 5.1, 5.2 and n, 5.3 and n, 5.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and n, 7.4, 12.1
Scribner’s magazine, 6.1 and n
Seabrook, Alexander King B., The Magic Island, 4.1 and n
Secker & Warburg, and n
Seghers, Anna, The Seventh Cross, 10.1 and n
segregation, itr.1, 1.1n, 6.1, 9.1n, 9.2n, 10.1n, 10.2n, 10.3 and n, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 and n, 10.7n, 10.8 and n, 10.9 and n, 11.1n, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1n, 16.1n; black troops in World War II, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12 and n; of blood, 10.13 and n; end of, itr.2. See also race relations
Selassie, Haile, itr.1, 16.1 and n
Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, 13.1 and n
Selected Poems of Langston Hughes, itr.1, itr.2, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 14.1
Senegal, itr.1, 13.1n, 14.1n, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2 and n, 16.3 and n
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, itr.1, 13.1n, 14.1n, 14.2, 14.3 and n; Ethiopiques, 13.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 13.3 and n
Sengstacke, John, and n
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 3.1 and n, 3.2n
“Seven Moments of Love,” and n
Sewell, Helen, 5.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 5.2; illustrations for The Dream Keeper, 5.3 and n, 5.4
Seymour, Katherine, 10.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 10.2
Shakespeare, William, 1.1, 8.1; Hamlet, 1.2 and n; Othello, 4.1; Romeo and Juliet, 1.3 and n, 1.4
“Shakespeare in Harlem,”
Shakespeare in Harlem (book), 9.1 and n, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2; illustrations, 9.4 and n, 9.5
Shakespeare in Harlem (play), 13.1 and n, 14.1 and n
Shanghai, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and n
Sharon, Henrietta Bruce, and n
Shaw, George Bernard
Shawn, Ted, n
Shelley, Joshua, and n
Sherman, Joe, n
Short, Douglas, 7.1n, 7.2 and n, 7.3, 8.1
Short, Marie, 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2n, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1; Hughes’s letters to, 8.2, 10.3
short stories. See specific works
Show Boat, 4.1n, 4.2n, 6.1n, 10.1 and n, 16.1n
Shubert brothers, and n
Shuffle Along, 1.1 and n
Sicilian Theatrical Company, and n
Siegmeister, Elie, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 12.3n
Simms, Hilda, n
Simon, Richard, n
Simon & Schuster, 11.1 and n, 12.1n, 12.2, 13.1n, 13.2, 13.3
Simone, Nina, 14.1n, 15.1 and n
“Simple” character, 10.1, 10.2n, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, 12.2 and n, 12.3 and n, 12.4n, 12.5, 13.1, 16.1
Simple Speaks His Mind, 11.1 and n, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 and n, 12.4 and n, 12.5, 12.6 and n
Simple Stakes a Claim, 13.1 and n
Simple Takes a Wife, 12.1 and n, 12.2
Simply Heavenly, 12.1 and n, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5n, 14.1, 15.1n
Sinclair, Amy and Gwen, and n
Sinclair, Upton, 7.1 and n, 7.2
Sirmay, Albert, 11.1 and n, 11.2
Sissle, Noble, n
Sivananda, Sri Swami, and n
Sklar, George, Stevedore, 7.1 and n, 7.2
Skyloft Players, 10.1n, 10.2n
slavery, 4.1n, 7.1n, 10.1, 10.2n, 10.3
Sleet, Moneta J., Jr., and n
Smedley, Agnes, and n
Smith, Bessie, itr.1, 2.1 and n, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1 and n, 4.2
Smith, Clara, and n
Smith, L.B., 12.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.2
Smith, Lillian, 12.1 and n; Strange Fruit, 14.1 and n
Smith, Mamie, and n
Smith v. Allwright, 10.1 and n
Snow, C. P., and n
Sokolsky, George, and n
“Something in Common,” 7.1, 14.1
“Song for a Banjo Dance,”
“Song for a Suicide,” and n
song lyrics. See specific songs
Song of Norway, 11.1 and n
Soulbook: The Revolutionary Journal of the Black World, 15.1n
Soul Gone Home, 8.1 and n
South, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2n, 5.3 and n, 10.1 and n, 12.1, 15.1; Hughes’s tours of, 5.4, 11.1, 12.2. See also specific states
South Africa, itr.1, prf.1, 12.1n, 12.2, 13.1; apartheid, itr.2, 14.1n
South Carolina
Southern Frontier, 9.1n
“Southern Mammy Sings,”
Southern Workman, The, 2.1 and n
“The Soviet Theatre in Central Asia,” and n
Soviet Union, itr.1, prf.1, 1.1n, 4.1n, 6.1, 7.1n, 7.2 and n, 7.3, 7.4 and n, 7.5 and n, 8.1, 9.1n, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 and n, 12.1n, 12.2 and n, 13.1 and n; Hughes in, 6.2
Soyinka, Wole, itr.1, prf.1, 14.1n, 14.2, 14.3n; Hughes’s letters to, 14.4
Spain, itr.1, itr.2, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1 and n, 8.1 and n, 8.2n, 8.3, 8.4, 13.1, 13.2n; Hughes in, 8.5, 8.6 and n, 8.7
“Spanish Blood,”
Spanish Civil War, itr.1, 8.1n, 8.2n, 8.3n, 8.4n, 12.1n
Spaulding, Charles, 14.1 and n, 14.2n
Spectator, 1.1 and n
Spencer, Anne, and n
Spencer, Kenneth, 6.1 and n, 10.1 and n
Spender, Stephen, and n
Spingarn, Amy, prf.1, 3.1 and n, 3.2n, 5.1 and n, 5.2n; Hughes’s letters to, 3.3, 5.3, 7.1, 14.1; portrait of Hughes, 4.1, 4.2 and n
Spingarn, Arthur B., 4.1 and n, 4.2 and n, 4.3, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1n, 10.2, 11.1n, 12.1n, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1; Hughes’s letters to, 4.4, 4.5, 9.1, 9.2
Spingarn, Joel Elias, 3.1n, 4.1n, 7.1, 9.1n
Spingarn (Malik), Hope, and n
Spingarn Medal, 9.1 and n, 12.1n; Hughes as recipient of, 13.1 and n, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
spirituals, 1.1n, 3.1, 4.1n, 4.2n, 14.1n, 14.2
Spiritual Spectacular, 14.1 and n
Stage Door Canteen, New York, 10.1n, 10.2
Stage Society, n
Stalin, Joseph, 6.1 and n, 8.1n
Stanford University, n
Stanislavsky, Constantin, 1.1n15n
Staten Island, New York, 1.1, 1.2n
Steele, Ina Qualls, 12.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 15.1
Steffens, Lincoln, 6.1n, 6.2n, 7.1 and n, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4n, 8.1, 8.2n; The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 7.5 and n
Stegner, Wallace, and n
Stein, Gertrude, 6.1n, 13.1n
Stephens, George D., n
Stephens, Nan Bagby, Roseanne, 4.1 and n
stereotypes, black, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1n
Stettinius, Edward, Jr., and n
Stevenson, Adlai, and n
Stewart, Donald Ogden, n
Stewart, Melvin, n
Still, William Grant, itr.1, 4.1 and n, 8.1 and n, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1n, 11.1
“Still Here,”
Stokowski, Leopold, and n
Stoska, Polyna, and n
Street Scene, itr.1, 10.1 and n, 11.1, 11.2 and n, 11.3 and n, 11.4
Strock, Reverend Henry B., and n
Strollin’ Twenties, The, 15.1 and n, 16.1 and n, 16.2 and n
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 14.1n, 15.1, 16.1 and n
Subversive Organizations, Attorney General’s List of, and n
“Suicide,”
Sullivan, Brian, n
Sullivan, Ed
Sullivan, Noël, itr.1, prf.1, 5.1 and n, 5.2n, 6.1n, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and n, 7.5 and n, 7.6, 7.7n, 7.8n, 8.1, 9.1 and n, 9.2 and n, 12.1n; death of, 13.1n, 13.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 5.3, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 8.2, 8.3, 9.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 12.2, 13.3
Sultepec Electric Light and Power Company, 1.1n, 1.2n, 1.3n
Sun Do Move, The, 10.1 and n
Supreme Court, U.S., itr.1, 10.1 and n, 12.1n, 14.1n, 16.1n
Survey, The, 2.1 and n
Survey Graphic, 2.1n, 3.1
Sweet, Ossian H., 4.1 and n, 4.2n
Sweet Flypaper of Life, The, 13.1 and n; photographs from, 13.2 and n, 13.3

Taggard, Genevieve, “Poppy Juice,” and n
Taiyo Maru, 6.1 and n
“Tamara Khanum: Soviet Asia’s Greatest Dancer,” and n
Tambourines to Glory (play), 13.1 and n, 13.2, 14.1 and n, 14.2 and n, 14.3, 14.4n, 15.1
Tambourines to Glory: A Novel (book), 13.1 and n, 13.2
Tanglewood Musical Festival
Tanguay, Eva, and n
Taos, 3.1n, 7.1, 7.2 and n
Tate, Allen, itr.1, 7.1 and n, 7.2n
“Taxi, Anyone,” and n
Taylor, Elizabeth, and n
Taylor, Prentiss, 5.1n, 5.2 and n, 6.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 5.3, 6.2; Scottsboro, Limited cover, 5.4
television, 12.1, 15.1 and n, 16.1 and n; communist blacklisting in, 12.2
Temple, Shirley, n
Texas, 5.1n, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1 and n, 12.1 and n
“That Boy LeRoi,” itr.1, 15.1 and n
“That Eagle of the U.S.A.,” 10.1 and n, 10.2
theater. See Broadway; opera; plays and musicals; specific works, theaters, genres, and styles
Theatre Arts Monthly, 7.1 and n
Theatre Communications Group, New York, n
Theatre Guild, New York, 4.1 and n, 13.1 and n, 14.1n, 14.2, 15.1
Theatre Union, New York, 7.1 and in, 8.1
“Theme for English B,”
Thomas, William Hannibal, The American Negro, 4.1 and n
Thomason, Caroline Wasson, “Will Prejudice Capture Oberlin?,” and n
Thompson, Anita, and n
Thompson, Era Bell, 12.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 12.2
Thompson (Patterson), Louise, 3.1n, 4.1 and n, 4.2, 4.3 and n, 6.1, 6.2n, 6.3, 7.1, 7.2n, 10.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 4.4
“A Thorn in Their Side,” and n
Thurman, Howard, 3.1n
Thurman, Wallace, itr.1, 3.1n, 4.1 and n, 4.2, 4.3 and n, 4.4, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1; The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life, 4.5n, 4.6 and n; Fire!!, 3.2n, 3.3n, 6.2n; Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem, 4.7 and n, 4.8; Hughes’s letters to, 4.9, 5.1; Infants of the Spring, 4.10n, 5.2 and n
Tibbett, Lawrence, 12.1, 12.2n, 12.3, 13.1
Time, 15.1n
Tobias, Channing, 12.1 and n, 14.1
“To Certain ‘Brothers,’ ” n
Todd, Mike, 12.1 and n, 14.1 and n
Tokyo, and n
Tolson, Melvin, itr.1, 11.1n; “African China,” 11.2 and n; Harlem Gallery, itr.2, 15.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 11.3
Toluca, 1.1n, 1.2n, 1.3
Tomorrow, 10.1 and n
“Too Blue,”
Toomer, Jean, 1.1 and n, 7.1 and n, 14.1; Cane, 1.2n
Torrence, Ridgely, 1.1 and n, 12.1
Tourel, Jennie, and n
“Tragedy,” 1.1 and n, 1.2n
Trans-Siberian Express, 6.1, 6.2
translations, itr.1, 7.1n, 8.1n, 9.1n, 13.1 and n. See also specific works
Trask, Katrina, n
Trask, Spencer, n
Treadwell, Maggie, 10.1; Hughes’s letters to, 10.2
Treasury Star Parade, The, 10.1 and n, 10.2
Troubled Island, itr.1, 4.1n, 8.1 and n, 9.1 and n, 10.1 and n, 11.1, 11.2
“Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba,” n
Trounstine, John J.
Troutbeck Press, n
Truman, Harry S., 11.1n, 12.1n, 12.2n, 13.1n
Tucker, Earl, and n
Turner, Big Joe, and n
Turner, Lana, and n
Tuskegee Institute, 2.1, 2.2n, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 1137, 10.1n
Tutuola, Amos, 13.1; The Palm-Wine Drinkard, 13.2 and n
“Two Protests Against Protest,”
Tyson, Cicely, and n

Uganda, 14.1, 14.2 and n, 14.3 and n
Ubangi Club, Harlem, n
University of California, Los Angeles, n
Updike, John, n
Ulric, Lenore, 3.1n, 3.2 and n
United Nations, n
United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO), and n
United States Information Service (USIS), itr.1, 14.1 and n
University of Chicago, 4.1n, 11.1; Laboratory School, 11.2 and n
Untermeyer, Louis, and n
Uzbekistan State Publishing House, and n

Valentino, Rudolph, and n
Van Doren, Carl, 10.1 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 10.2
Van Doren, Mark, and n
Vanity Fair, itr.1, 3.1n, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4 and n, 3.5, 3.6n, 4.1
Van Vechten, Carl, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, prf.1, prf.2, prf.3, 2.1n, 3.1 and n, 3.2 and n, 3.3, 3.4n, 3.5n, 3.6, 4.1, 4.2 and n, 4.3, 4.4 and n, 5.1n, 5.2, 5.3n, 6.1 and n, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3n, 9.4n, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1 and n, 13.2, 13.3n, 13.4n, 14.1 and n, 14.2, 15.1; “The Black Blues,” 3.7 and n; The Blind Bow-Boy, 3.8 and n, 3.9n; Firecrackers: A Realistic Novel, 3.10 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 4.5, 4.6, 6.2, 6.3, 9.5, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7; Nigger Heaven, 3.15n, 3.16n, 4.7 and n, 4.8, 4.9; Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works, 3.17 and n; The Tiger in the House, 3.18 and n
vaudeville, 1.1 and n, 3.1, 12.1n
Vaughan, Sarah, 13.1 and n, 13.2n
Vega, Lope de, Fuente Ovejuna, 8.1 and n, 8.2
Venice, 2.1 and n, 2.2
Vienna, n
Vie Parisienne, La, 1.1 and n
Vietnam War, itr.1, itr.2
“The Vigilantes Knock at My Door,” 7.1 and n, 7.2n
Vinal, Harold, n
Virginia Quarterly Review, The, 13.1n
Vodery, Will, and n
Voices, 11.1 and n
Voices, Inc., and n
von Auw, Ivan, Jr., 12.1n, 13.1 and n, 13.2
Vossiche Zeitung, 1.1 and n
voting rights, and n

Wagner, Jean, n
Wagner, Richard, The Ring Cycle, 1.1 and n
“Wait,” and n
Walker, A’Lelia, and n
Walker, Alice, itr.1, 16.1 and n
Walker, George, n
Walker, Madame C. J., n
Walker (Alexander), Margaret, itr.1, prf.1, 10.1 and n, 14.1n, 14.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 14.3
Wallace, George, n
Wallace, Henry A., and n
Walrond, Eric, 2.1 and n, 4.1 and n
Walters, Gwendolyn, and n
Walters, John
Ward, Clara, and n
Ward, Ted, 9.1n, 9.2, 14.1n
Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., 3.1n, 3.2 and n, 3.3
Warner, Rex, and n
Warren, Robert Penn, n
Washington, Booker T., 2.1, 4.1, 9.1n
Washington, D.C., 3.1 and n, 3.2, 4.1n, 4.2n, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2; March on (1963), 15.1
Washington Sentinel, 3.1 and n, 3.2n
Wasserman, Eddie, 3.1, 3.2 and n
Waters, Ethel, 4.1 and n, 7.1, 9.1 and n, 9.2 and n, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3n, 13.1 and n
Watts, Franklin, 12.1n; “First Book” series, 12.2n, 13.1 and n
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, and n
Way Down South, 9.1, 9.2 and n
Ways of White Folks, The, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1n, 6.1n, 7.1 and n, 7.2 and n, 7.3 and n, 7.4, 7.5n, 7.6, 8.1n, 9.1n, 10.1
“The Weary Blues,” 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 4.1
Weary Blues, The, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2n, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8n, 3.9, 4.1n, 5.1, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; dust jacket, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12n, 3.13
Weaver, Robert C., and n
Webster, Paul, and n
Weill, Kurt, itr.1, 10.1n, 11.1 and n, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 15.1; The Threepenny Opera, 11.5n
Weinstein, Rabbi Jacob, 6.1 and n, 10.1 and n
Weinstock, Herbert, 13.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 13.2
Welch, Marie de Lisle, 7.1, 7.2 and n
Welfare Island (Roosevelt Island, New York City), and n
Welles, Orson, 9.1n, 10.1n
Wellington Hotel, New York, 15.1 and n, 16.1
West, Rebecca, and n
Western Reserve University, and n
Westfield, New Jersey, 4.1n, 4.2 and n
West Hassayampa, 1.1n, 1.2, 1.3
West Hesseltine, 2.1 and n, 2.2 and n, 2.3 and n
Weston, Edward, 6.1 and n, 6.2 and n
Weston, Randy, 14.1 and n, 14.2n, 16.1
Westport Playhouse, Connecticut, 13.1n, 13.2 and n
West Virginia, USS, 10.1n
“What the Negro Wants,” and n
When the Jack Hollers, 8.1 and n, 8.2n
Whipper, Leigh, and n
White, Clarence Cameron, 4.1 and n; Ounga, 4.2 and n
White, Cliff, and n
White, Gladys, 3.1 and n, 3.2n
White, Josh, and n
White, Nate, 12.1 and n, 12.2, 12.3
White, Walter, 3.1 and n, 3.2, 3.3 and n, 3.4 and n, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2 and n, 10.3n, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1; The Fire in the Flint, 3.5n; Hughes’s letters to, 3.6, 5.1; Rope and Faggot, 4.2 and n
“white” stories, 7.1 and n, 7.2
Whitman, Walt, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 10.1 and n, 11.1; “Calamus,” 1.4 and n; Leaves of Grass, 1.5n, 2.1
Whitney, John Hay, and n
Whitney (John Hay) Opportunity Fellowship, 12.1, 12.2 and n, 14.1 and n
Wilde, Oscar, Salomé, 1.1 and n, 1.2
Wilkie, Wendell, and n
Wilkins, Roy, 9.1 and n, 16.1; Hughes’s letters to, 9.2
Williams, Albert Rhys, 7.1 and n, 8.1, 8.2
Williams, Bert, and n
Williams, John Alfred, 14.1 and n, 16.1 and n
Williams, Laudee, 4.1, 4.2 and n
Williams, Sidney, and n
Williams, William Carlos, n
“Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too? (A Negro Fighting Man’s Letter to America),”
Wilson, Faith, 14.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 14.2
Winchell, Anna Cora, and n
Winston, G. B., 11.1n; Hughes’s letters to, 11.2
Winter, Ella, 6.1n, 6.2 and n, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and n, 7.5, 7.6, 8.1n
“Winter Sweetness,” n
Wolfe, Thomas, 6.1n, 7.1 and n
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 6.1 and n, 7.1, 8.1n
Woodson, Carter G., 3.1 and n, 4.1
“Words Like Freedom,”
Wordsworth, William, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” and n
Workers Monthly, The, 3.1 and n
Workers’ Theatre Olympiad, 6.1 and n, 6.2
Works Projects Administration, 9.1n; Music program, 9.2n
World Festival of Negro Arts (1966), 16.1, 16.2 and n, 16.3 and n
World Tomorrow, The, 1.1 and n, 1.2, 3.1
World War I, itr.1, 1.1n
World War II, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1n, 9.1n, 10.1 and n, 10.2 and n, 10.3, 10.4 and n, 10.5 and n, 10.6, 12.1, 16.1n; black troops, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and n
Worthy, William, and n
Wright, Richard, itr.1, itr.2, prf.1, 6.1n, 9.1n, 9.2n, 9.3n, 11.1, 11.2n, 12.1, 14.1 and n, 16.1; Black Boy, 9.4n; death of, 14.2 and n; Hughes’s letters to, 9.5, 9.6, 13.1; Native Son, 9.7 and n, 9.8 and n, 10.1 and n; Pagan Spain, 13.2 and n; White Man, Listen!, 13.3 and n

Yaddo, 10.1 and n, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1n
Yale University, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3; James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters, itr.4, prf.1, 9.1 and n, 9.2n, 10.1, 13.1 and n, 13.2 and n, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5 and n, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
Yeats, William Butler, 5.1n, 9.1n
Yordan, Philip, Anna Lucasta, 10.1 and n
“The Young Glory of Him,” n
Yugen, 13.1 and n

Zabel, Morton, and n
Zaphiro, Lij Tasfaye, 8.1 and n, 8.2
Zelinka, Minna, see Lieber, Minna
Zero Hour, The, 9.1 and n