Jones, Eugene Kinckle, 472–473
Jones, George, 157
Jones, Hattie, 338, 520
Jones, Henry “Broadway,” 81
Jones, J. Raymond, 701
Jones, James Earl, 473–474
Jones, Jo, 53
Jones, K. C., 738
Jones, LeRoi. See Baraka, Amiri
Jones, Leroy. See Baraka, Amiri
Jones, Lois Mailou, 474–476
Elizabeth Catlett’s studies with, 151
at Salon of Contemporary Negro Art, 748
Jones, Madame Sissieretta Joyner, 476, 476–478
Jones, Mat, 628
Jones, Philly Joe, 214
Jones, Quincy, 478–479
Aretha Franklin and, 312
arranger of the Basie orchestra, 53, 54
Little Richard recording with, 537
and Michael Jackson, 438
Oprah Winfrey and, 906
Jones, Sarah Garland, 182
Jones, Scipio Africanus, 479–480
Jones, Thad, 53, 598
Jones, William Tass. See Jones, Bill T.
Joplin, Scott, 480, 480–482
Jordan, Barbara, 482, 482–484
election to Congress, 923
Jordan, Duke, 650
Jordan, James, 184
Jordan, Joe, 189
Jordan, June, 484–485
Jordan, Michael, 486, 486–488
Flora Hyman compared to, 430
Oprah Winfrey and, 906
Jordan, Vernon, 488–489
Howard Thurman’s influence on, 814
and Urban League, 116, 489, 926
Jordan Rules, The, 487
Jorgensen, Marian, 299
Joseph, “One-Leg Willie,” 81
Joseph Crane Hartzell (Tanner), 801
Josephine Baker (sculpture; Barthé), 51
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, 205
Josephson, Barney, 406
Joseph V. Baker Associated, 377
“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho,” 436
journalists. See Journalism in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 825
Journal of Daniel Coker (Coker), 177
Journal of Negro Education, The, 528
Journal of Negro History, The (journal), 103, 254, 679
Benjamin Quarles on the editorial board of, 693
Benjamin Quarles published in, 692
founded by Carter G. Woodson, 912
illustrated by Lois Mailou Jones, 475
John Hope Franklin published in, 314
John Roy Lynch published in, 548
Mary Church Terrell’s writings in, 805
Monroe Nathan Work published in, 914
Zora Neale Hurston published in, 426
Journal of the National Medical Association, 177
Journal of the Optical Society of America, 883
Journal of the Rev. John Marrant, A (Marrant), 557
Journey of Reconciliation, 582, 741
Journey to Accompong (Dunham), 257
Journey to Beloved (Winfrey), 905
Joyner, Al, 356
Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, 356, 899
Joy of Living (television program), 712
Jubilee (Walker), 367
Judaism
and black nationalism, 567
black religious leaders and, 302
Sammy Davis, Jr.’s, conversion to, 218
Judge (periodical), 398
Judge Priest (film; Ford), 294, 577
Judson, Andrew T., 667
Juice (film), 761
Juilliard School of Music (New York)
Davis at, 213
Leontyne Price at, 685
Wynton Marsalis at, 558
Julian, Hubert, 724
Julian, Percy Lavon, 79, 489–490, 490
Julien, Max, 653
Julius Rosenwald Fund, 509–510
Charles S. Johnson trustee for, 452
Horace Mann Bond and, 88
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (film; Goldberg), 345
Juneteenth (Ellison), 277
Jungle Fever (film; Lee), 526
Halle Berry in, 73
Ruby Dee in, 221
Stevie Wonder’s soundtrack, 908
Junior Chamber of Commerce, 797
Juniper, Johnny, 717
Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 65
Just, Ernest Everett, 490–492, 491
dismissing Samuel M. Nabrit, 623
George Dows Cannon’s studies with, 138
William Montague Cobb and, 176
Just Above My Head (Baldwin), 44
Just a Little Simple (Childress), 164
“Just As I Am,” 436
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ’fore I Diiie (Angelou), 27
Justice (Glasworthy), 574
Justice, David, 74
“Justice of Woman Suffrage, The” (Terrell), 805
“Justifications and Needs for Diversity in Orthopedics” (White), 878
Kahlo, Frida, 152
Kallen, Horace M., 538, 539
Kane, Big Daddy, 479
Kane, Harry, 51
Kansas
black exodus to
Blanche K. Bruce opposed to, 120
promoted by Benjamin Singleton, 770
University of, Wilt Chamberlain at, 155
Kansas City (film), 66
Kansas City Hall (newspaper), 884
Kansas City Man Blues (album; Bechet), 63
Kappa Alpha Psi, 93
Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar), 5–6
Karenga, Maulana, 760
mentor of Amiri Baraka, 49
Kasamance (Dunham), 258
Kashmir Chemical Company, 49, 50
Katherine Cornell as Juliet (sculpture; Barthé), 51
Katherine Dunham Dance Company, 257
Katie Hines (ship), 395
Katz, William Loren, 547
Kawaida, practiced by Amiri Baraka, 49
Kazan, Elia, 638–639
Kean, Charles, 13
Kean, Edmund, 13
Keane, Johnny, 298–299
Kearny, Denis, 70
Kearsley, John A., Jr., 259
Keckly, Elizabeth Hobbs, 325, 493, 493–494
Keeler, Ralph, 511
Keeper (sculpture; Puryear), 691
Keep Shufflin’ (musical), 847
Keith, Conyers, Anderson, Brown & Willis, 494
Keith, Damon Jerome, 494–495
Kellogg, Paul U., 539
Kellor, Frances, 570
Kelly, Arthur, 893
Kelly, Sharon Pratt, 495–497
Kelly, Tim, 653
Kelly, Wynton, 341
Kelsey, George, 501
Kennedy, Edward, 100, 117
Kennedy, John F., 186, 391, 501, 535, 552, 554, 561, 611, 615, 620, 683, 872, 885, 925, 926
appointments
A. Leon Higginbotham to the Federal Trade Commission, 399
Carl Rowan as assistant secretary of state for public affairs, 732
Harry Belafonte as cultural adviser to the Peace Corps, 66
Barbara Jordan volunteer for presidential campaign of, 483
creation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 687
and desegregation of the University of Mississippi, 586
effect of Medgars Evers’s death on, 283
inauguration
Mahalia Jackson performance at, 437
national anthem sung by Marian Anderson, 25
performance of Basie orchestra, 54
Martin Luther King and, 503
and Peace Corps, 723
requesting a new civil rights law, 283–284, 503
Robert Clifton Weaver and, 863
Kennedy, Robert F.
discussion with Lorraine Hansberry about racial crises, 373–374
Earl Graves administrative assistant to, 349
fact-finding trip to Mississippi, 265–266
funeral, Mahalia Jackson singing at, 437
Marian Edelman and, 265–266
working with Lena Home on civil rights, 414
Kenner, Duncan, 714
Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame, 774
Kenya independence celebration photographed by Moneta Sleet, 774
Kenyatta, Jomo, 331, 715
Keppard, Freddie, 28, 62
Kerouac, Jack, 543
Kerr, Joan, 444
Kersee, Bob, 355, 356
Keyes, Lawrence, 649
Keyser, Frances Reynolds, 379
Khan, Chaka, 157, 479
Kierkegaard, Soren, 867, 868
Killens, John Oliver, 342
Killer Diller (film), 552
Kilson, Martin, 863, 867
Kimball, Elizabeth, 200
Kind of Blue (album), 188, 214
King: A Critical Biography (Lewis), 528
King, Albert, 393
King, Alonzo, 445
King, B. B., 497–498
Blind Lemon Jefferson’s influence on, 446
influence on Jimi Hendrix, 393
King, Boston, 498–499
King, Coretta Scott, 499–501, 500
Malcolm X meeting with, 554
King, Don, 763
King, Lonnie, 923
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 500–504, 532
antiwar stance criticized by Whitney Young, 926
on Benjamin E. Mays, 572
Benjamin Jefferson Davis and, 209
C. L. Franklin and, 313
Coretta Scott’s meeting of, 499
counseled on nonviolent direct action by Bayard Rustin, 742
Edgar D. Nixon’s antagonism toward, 629
Ella Baker’s difficulty working with, 39
funeral
Aretha Franklin singing at, 312
Mahalia Jackson singing at, 437
Howard Thurman’s influence on, 814
interviewed by Kenneth Clark, 171
John Alfred Williams’s criticism of, 891
Mahalia Jackson and, 436
Malcolm X and, 554
mentor of Marian Edelman, 265
Moneta Sleet’s photographs of, 774
president of Montgomery Improvement Association, 657
Ralph Abernathy at assassination of, 8
Ralph Abernathy’s first meeting with, 8
speech recordings marketed by Berry Gordy, 347
on Stokely Carmichael’s use of term “Black Power,” 141, 142
support of Harry Belafonte, 66
King, Robert, 278
King, Rodney, 94
King, William “Billy,” 23
King Cole and His Swingsters, 180
King God Didn’t Save, The (Williams), 892
King Hedley II (play; Wilson), 901
King Kolax band, 649
“King Leopold’s Soliloquy” (Twain), 767
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, 28, 29, 637, 637
King Philip (Emathla), 131
“King Porter Stomp” (Morton), 609
King Solomon’s Mines (film), 715
Kinte Foundation (Washington, D. C.), 367
Kinzie, John, 261
Kinzie, Juliette, 260
Kismet, Timbukto (Holder), 506
Kiss Me Kate, 600
Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 543
Kitt, Eartha Mae, 505, 505–506
Kittel, Frederick August. See Wilson, August
Kittredge, George Lyman, 118
Klingaman, Mike, 508
Knepper, Jimmy, 598
Knight, Curtis, 393
Knight, Gwendolyn, 519
Knight, Suge, 761
Knight, Willis, 197
Knoll (sculpture; Puryear), 692
Knots Landing (television show), 73
Knox, John P., 86
Knoxville; Summer 1915 (Ailey), 9
KOA radio station (Denver), 576
Koch, Edward, 232
Koenigswater, Pannonica de, 602, 650
Kohlsaat, Herman H., 889
“Ko-Ko” (Ellington), 273
KONCH (online magazine), 705
Kool Jazz Festival. See Newport Jazz Festival
Kootz, Samuel, 60
Korbel, Joseph, 713
Korean War, 114
Benjamin O. Davis Sr. in, 211
Charles Rangel in, 701
Douglas Wilder in, 881
Hazel Johnson-Brown in, 468
James Daniel in, 443
opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois, 250
Korret, Steve, 48
Kraft, Julius, 718
Krake, Holcha, 466, 467
Kramer, Eddie, 393
Krazy Kat (cartoon; Herriman), 398, 399
Krenov, James, 690
Kress Foundation, 680
Krokodil (magazine), 377
Kroll, Leon, 376
Kuhn, Bowie, 574
Ku Klux Klan, 56, 58, 75, 120, 197, 216, 220, 249, 264, 274, 380, 418, 442, 578, 591, 611, 659, 827
Malcolm X’s secret meeting with, 553
Marcus Garvey and, 330
Kunhardt, Phil, 655
L.A. Times (newspaper), 561
labor activists. See Activism in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Labor Defender (newspaper), 659
labor reform, Archibald Grimké and, 361
Labor Relations Law in the Public Sector (Edwards), 267
labor unions. See also Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
A. Philip Randolph and, 699
AFL-CIO, 700
Angelo Herndon and, 397
Associate Actors and Artists of America, 639
Benjamin Jefferson Davis and, 208
CIO
African Americans joining industrial unions, 509
Operation Dixie, 137
Coleman Young and, 924
at The Defender, 3
Ernest Calloway working for, 137
Hubert Henry Harrison and, 380
James Farmer and, 288
Kelly Miller skeptical of, 595
Marcus Garvey and, 329
musicians, 609
ban on recording by American Federation of Musicians, 53, 273, 650
Clef Club of New York, 281
of sharecroppers, 80
Sheet Metal Workers union, 146
St. Clair Drake and, 244
LaBostrie, Dorothy, 536
LaBrew, Arthur, 352, 353
Lacombe, Ada Baroness, 476
Lacour, Claudia Brodsky, 605
Lacy, Rubin, 446
Lacy, Sam, 507–508
Ladder for Booker T. Washington (sculpture; Puryear), 692
Ladies Professional Golfers Association (LPGA), 337, 910
Ladnier, Tommy, 63
“Lady Be Good” (Fitzgerald), 297
Lady from Philadelphia, The (album), 25
Lady of the Lake (Scott), 255
Lady Sings the Blues (film), 347, 689, 731
La Forge, Frank, 23
L’Ag’Ya (Dunham), 257
Lake Erie crib disaster (1916), 603
La Lime, Jean, 261
Lambert, Constant, 597
Lament for a Bullfighter (Bearden), 61
La Motta, Jake, 727
Lampkin, Daisy Elizabeth Adams, 508–510
Lander, Louisa, 530
Land of the Lotus Eaters (painting; Duncanson), 255
Lane, Ann. See Petry, Ann
Lane, William Henry, 510–511
Laney, Lucy Craft, 511–512
Langella, Frank, 345
Langford, Sam, 591
Langley Alley Cats, 230
Langston, Charles Henry, 513
Langston, John Mercer, 512–514
defending Edmonia Lewis, 529
“Langston Hughes” (Roumain), 421
Langston Hughes Reader, The, 422
Lanker, Brian, 784
La Porta, John, 598
Laporte, Pierre, 13
Lapsley, Samuel, 766
Larsen, Nella, 293, 514–515, 515
Jean Toomer and, 818
marriage to Elmer Samuel Imes, 431–432
Larson, Arthur, 606
Lash, Henry E., 175
Lashay, Prince, 184
Last Dance for Sybil, A (Davis), 216
Last Days of Louisiana Red, The (Reed), 705
Last of the Scottsboro Boys, The (Norris), 758
Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems, The (Brown), 119
Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, 471
Last Waltz, The (film; Scorsese), 862
Latimer, Lewis Howard, 515–516
Latourette, James, 820
Lauderdale, Jack, 156
Laughing to Keep from Crying (Hughes), 422
Laurens, Jean-Paul, 800
Laveaux, Marie, 517–518
Mary Ellen Pleasant compared to, 675
Lavigerie, Charles-Martial, cardinal, 733
Lawd Today! (Wright), 917
Law International Inc. (later GoodWorks International), 923
Lawrence, David, 45
Lawrence, Ida Mae, 80
Lawrence, Jacob Armstead, 518–520
Augusta Savage’s influence on, 747
self-portrait, 518
Lawrence, Margaret Morgan, 520–521
Lawrence, Trevor, 332
Lawrence, Vera Brodsky, 481
Lawrence, William, 203
Lawyer as a Negotiator, The (Edwards), 267
lawyers. See Law in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Lay Bare the Heart (Farmer), 288
lay preachers. See Religion in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Lazard Frères, 696–697
Lead Belly, 521, 521–522
and Blind Lemon Jefferson, 445
Bayard Rustin performing with, 741
Leadbelly (film; Parks), 655
League for Industrial Democracy, 288
League for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation, 700
League of American Wheelmen, 802
Learning Tree, The (film; Parks), 652
score, 655
Leavenworth, Henry, 729–730
Lebowitz, Fran, 906
“Lector, The Minister of the Word: An Historical and Liturgical Study of the Office of the Lector in the Western Church” (Gregory), 354
Ledbetter, Huddie. See Lead Belly
Lee, Bill, 525, 526
Lee, Bruce, 5
Lee, Canada, 164
Lee, Cinqué, 526
Lee, David, 526
Lee, Don L., 102
Lee, George E., 649
Lee, Herbert, 611
Lee, Jarena, 522–524, 523
Lee, Joie, 526
Lee, Raphael Carl, 524–525
Lee, Shelton Jackson. See Lee, Spike
Lee, Spike, 525–526
influence of the Schomburg Collection, 429
Jungle Fever, 73
Malcolm X, 555
Mo’ Better Blues, 853
Ossie Davis and, 216
Lee, Ulysses, 118
“Legacy of the Ancestral Arts, The (Locke), 319
legal cases
Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher v. Oklahoma State Board of Regents (1948), 258, 416
Aderand Constructors v. Pena (1995), 809
Amistad case, 667
Andres v. Ballard (1980), 578
Association of Flight Attendants v. U.S. Air, 267
Bates v. Little Rock (1960), 58
Bob Jones University v. United States (1983), 186
Boiling v. Sharpe (1954), 416
Brom and Bett v. J. Ashley Esq., 317
Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 65, 87, 170, 186, 209, 416, 440, 564, 676, 707, 723, 732, 733, 757, 881
attacked by Zora Neale Hurston, 427
Clark’s racial identity studies used in, 171
Constance Motley’s work on, 613
effect on school desegregation in Arkansas, 58
John Hope Franklin and historical documentation for, 314
Thurgood Marshall and, 563
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1951), 145
Bush v. Gore (2000), 809
Cooper v. Aaron (1958), 58, 564
Dandridge v. Williams (1970), 565
Davis v. Brownell, 209
Davis v. School District of City of Pontiac (1970), 495
Dennis v. United States, 209
Detroit Free Press v. John Ashcroft (2002), 495
District of Columbia v. John Thompson (1950), 806
Dred Scott v. Irene Emerson (1846), 751
Dred Scott v. John F. A. Sanford (1857), 227, 624, 751, 752
Flemming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas Company (Virginia, 1955), 656
Gregg v. Georgia (1976), 565
Hale v. Kentucky (1938), 417
Hocutt case (1933 North Carolina), 381, 765
Hollins v. Oklahoma (1935), 417
Holmes v. Danner, 488
Hudson v. McMillan (1992), 809
Hurd v. Hodge (1948), 417
McLaughlin v. Florida (1964), 186
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950), 145, 416
Microsoft, United States v., 268
Mills case (Maryland, 1939), 381
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938), 563
argued by Charles Hamilton Houston, 416
Moore v. Dempsey (1923), 480
Morgan v. Virginia (1946), 381
NAACP v. Alabama (1958), 145–146
New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co (1938), 381
Norris v. Alabama (1935), 757
Payne v. Tennessee (1991), 566
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), 563, 675
Charles Hamilton Houston’s strategy for overturning, 416
Powell v. Alabama (1932), 756
Powell v. McCormack (1969), 682
Prey v. New York City Ballet (1998), 146
Rabidue v. Osceola Refining Company (1970), 495
Richmond School Board v. Virginia Board of Education (1973), 186
Roe v. Wade (1973), 447
San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973), 565
Sarah Althea Hill v. William Sharon, 675
Sharkey and Issaquena County
Consolidated Line v. Blackwell, 80
Shaw v. Reno (1993), 809
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), 417, 577
Robert Weaver’s research used by Thurgood Marshall, 862
Sinclair, United States v. (1971), 495
Smith v. Allwright (1944), 381
Steele v. Louisville and Nashville Railroad (1944), 417
Sweatt v. Painter (1950), 563
Constance Motley’s work on, 612
legal precedent to Brown, 416
Robert L. Carter and, 145
Tunstall v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, 417
Webster v. Reproductive Services (1989), 882
legal teaching, Harry T. Edwards and, 267–268
legislators. See Politics and Government in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Leguizamo, John, 526
Leibowitz, Samuel, 757
Leland, Frank, 896
Lemon, Meadowlark, 155
Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (show), 414
Lena Horne at the Waldorf Astoria (album), 414
Lenox Avenue (Still), 792
Lenox School of Jazz, 185
Leonard, Buck, 338
Leonard, Sheldon, 194
Leonard, Zenas, 729, 730
Leon H. Sullivan Foundation, 798
Leopold II (Belgium), 890
Leroy, “Baby Face,” 861
lesbianism. See bisexuality; homosexuality
Leslie, Lew, 596
Leslie, Lisa, 594
Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly, 671
“Lessons of the Hour” (Douglass), 240
Lester, Peter, 334
Let Me Live (Herndon), 397
reprints of, 398
Let’s Get It On (album), 332
Letters from a Man of Colour (Forten), 305
“Letter to Michael” (Jordan), 484
Leucothea Rescuing Ulysses (Bannister), 47
Leutze, Emmanuel, 874, 875
Levels of the Game (McPhee), 32
Lever Series (Puryear), 691
Levine, James, 630
Levison, Stanley, 39
Levy, Levi Ben, 569
Lew, Elizabeth Van, 844
Lew, Leslie, 81
Lewinsky, Monica, 489
Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, 178
Lewis, Carl, 526–528, 527
Lewis, Carol, 526
Lewis, Cudjo, 426
Lewis, David Levering, 528–529
at Fisk, 452
on Maya Angelou, 27
Lewis, Ed, 53
Lewis, Edmonia, 47, 529–531
defended by John Mercer Langston, 513
sculpture by, 529
Lewis, Israel, 787
Lewis, John, 531, 531–532
on Hank Aaron, 2
on James Forman, 304
and Julian Bond, 90
supporter of Coleman, 185
in U.S. Congress, 588
Lewis, Maria, 888
Lewis, Myra, 367
Lewis, Norman, 747
Lewis, Oliver, 532–533
Lewis, Rufus A., 629
Lewis, Theophilus, 814
Lewis, Walker, 494
Lewis and Clark expedition, 921, 922
“Liar, The” (Baraka), 48
Liberation of Aunt Jemima, The (mixed media; Saar), 744
Liberator, The (journal)
Charles Lenox Remond agent for, 707
Charlotte Forten Grimké published in, 362
Claude McKay editor of, 581
edited by Lucy Parsons, 659
read by Frederick Douglass, 238
Sarah Douglass published in, 241
seed money from James Forten, 305
on William and Ellen Craft, 197
William Nell working at, 624
Liberia
Alexander Crummell in, 198
Benjamin Brawley’s educational survey in, 98
Clifton Reginald Wharton in, 871
description by Amanda Smith, 778
Edward Blyden in, 86
encouraging African American to immigrate to, 87
Henry H. Garnet diplomat in, 325
Henry McNeal Turner in, 827
Hildrus Poindexter in, 677
John Brown Russwurm in, 740
Lott Cary in, 148
Marcus Garvey and, 330
Martin R. Delany in, 227
Solomon Bayley’s emigration to, 60
St. Clair Drake in, 244
Thomas Morris Chester in, 163
Liberia Herald, 740
Liberian Exodus Joint Stock Steam Ship Company, 227
“Liberty and Peace” (Wheatley), 873
“Liberty Further Extended” (Haynes), 384
Liberty League, 379, 542
Liberty Party
Henry H. Garnet and, 324
James McCune Smith affiliated with, 780
Jermain Wesley Loguen promoting the, 542
Liberty Party Paper (newspaper), 239
Liberty Street Presbyterian Church (Troy, NY), 324
Library of Congress, Robert Hayden consultant in poetry, 382
Lie, Jonas, 475
Liele, George, 534
baptizing Andrew Bryan, 122
David George’s conversion after hearing, 333
Life (magazine)
on Beauford Delaney, 223
Dorothy Dandridge on cover of, 206
George Herriman’s cartoons for, 398
Gordon Parks Sr. with, 654
Jesse Leroy Brown on cover of, 114
on Leon H. Sullivan, 798
on Louis Tompkins Wright, 915
profile of Paul Revere Williams, 893
Tommie Smith on possible boycott of 1968 Olympics, 782
Life, This (Poitier), 678
Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as “Deadwood Dick,” by Himself, The (Love), 546
Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany (Delany and Rollin), 227
Life and Religious Experiences of Jarena Lee, The (Lee), 523
Life and Times of James P. Beckwourth, The (Beckwourth)
on Edward Rose, 729, 730
“Life Is Fine” (Hughes), 422
Life of Albert R. Parsons, with Brief History of the Labor Movement in American, The (Parsons), 659
Life of Frederick Douglass, The (Lawrence), 518–519
Life of Harriet Tubman, The (Lawrence), 519
Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut. Written by Himself (Mars), 557
Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (Henson), 395
Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, The (Lawrence), 518
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (Grimes), 358
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” (song; Johnson), 456, 457, 458
inspiration to Augusta Savage, 747
Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence, 521
Like One of the Family: Conversations from a Domestic’s Life (Childress), 165
Lilies of the Field (film; Nelson), 678
Lillie, Frank Rattray, 491, 825
Lillie, Vernell, 767
“Lincoln” (Bell), 69
Lincoln, Abraham, 69, 85, 163, 493–494, 530, 558, 658, 801, 826. See also Emancipation Proclamation
birthday commemorated in “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” 456, 458
Frederick Douglass and, 239
images by Horace Pippin, 674
paraphrased by Robert Russa Moton, 614
portrait by Richmond Barthé, 51
Sojourner Truth’s meeting with, 821
Lincoln, Elizabeth Todd, 493, 494
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 351
Lincoln Center (New York), 437, 559
Lincoln Memorial
Marian Anderson’s Easter Sunday 1939
concert, 25
Walter White and, 881
Robert Moton’s speech at unveiling of, 614
Lincoln Motion Pictures Company, 591
Lincoln Portrait (Copland), 25
Lind, Jenny, 352
Lindsay, Vachel, 420
Lion and the Archer, The (Hayden), 382
Lion King, The (film), 345
Lion Licking His Paw (painting; Tanner), 800
Liotta, Ray, 345
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, 252
Lisa, Manuel, 729
Listen (album), 157
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones, 479
Liston, Sonny, 535, 535–536
Muhammad Ali’s fight against, 16, 16
literacy
Ambrose Caliver and adult illiteracy, 134
Hallie Quinn Brown teaching, 108
of John Thompson, 812
relationship to freedom, 365
literary critic, Philips Alexander Bell as, 71
Little, Cleavon, 689
Little, Malcolm. See Malcolm X
Little Carib Theatre Workshop (later Trinidad Theatre Workshop), 839
Little Ham (Hughes), 421
Little Richard, 536–538, 537
Jimi Hendrix’s tour with, 393
Little Rock, Arkansas
E. Frederic Morrow during Little Rock crisis, 607
Mifflin Gibbs in, 335
Little Rock Nine, 57
Little Walter. See Jacobs, “Little Walter”
Liturgical Arts Society, 52
Liuzzo, Viola, murder of, 504
Live at the Apollo (album; James Brown), 112
Live Gary (comic strip, Harrington), 377
Live in Japan (album; Vaughan), 835
Live on the Sunset Strip (concert film; Pryor), 689–690
Living Dolls (television), 73
“Living in America” (James Brown), 112
Living Is Easy, The (West), 871
Living on the Edge of Chaos (Goldberg), 345
Living Way (newspaper), 864
Living with Michael Jackson (TV documentary), 439
Llewellyn, Sydney, 336
Lloyd, John Henry, 461
Lobos, Los, 409
Locke, Alain Leroy, 38–540
on Charles S. Johnson, 451
on Cullen’s Color, 202
encouraging Langston Hughes, 420
at Howard, 79
influence on Lois Mailou Jones, 475
member of the American Negro Academy, 191
mentor to William H. Johnson, 467
Meta Fuller predating black aesthetic, 319
Ossie Davis and, 215
portrait by Winold Reiss, 538
teaching at Howard, 170
on The Weary Blues (Hughes), 420
Zora Neale Hurston’s studies with, 426
Lockwood, Robert, Jr., 464
Loew, Arthur, Jr., 505
Logan, Rayford Whittingham, 417, 540–541
at the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 912
at Howard, 79
John Hope Franklin and, 314
Loguen, Gerrit Smith, 542
Loguen, Jarm. See Loguen, Jermain Wesley
Loguen, Jermain Wesley, 541–542
Lomax, Alan, 256, 522
and Big Bill Broonzy, 104
on Jelly Roll Morton’s sessions with the Red Hot Peppers, 609
and Lead Belly, 522
Muddy Waters and, 860
Lomax, John, 522
London
Amy Ashwood Garvey in, 327
Duke Ellington’s band in, 273
Emancipation Committee, 709
Emancipation Society, 197
Freedman’s Aid Association, 709
Ira Aldridge at Theatre Royal Covent Garden, 13
Ladies Emancipation Society, 709
Olaudah Equiano in, 278
Paul Robeson in, 715
Sarah Parker Remond in, 709
Walker and Williams in, 886
William and Ellen Craft at World’s Fair (1851), 197
Zilpha Elaw in, 269
London, Jack, 454
London Suite (Waller), 847
Lonely Crusade (Himes), 404
Long, Ray, 870
Long, Worth, 531
Longo, Paula, 593
Long Road to Freedom, The: An Anthology of Black Music, 66
Long Walk Home, The (film), 345
Long Way from Home, A (McKay), 581
Look Who’s Here (revue), 551
Lorde, Audre, 542–544
Los Angeles
Amer-I-Can’s role in securing truce between rival gangs, 116
Church of God, 853
International Airport, designed by Paul Revere Williams, 895
James Turcotte Gallery, Kerry J. Marshall at, 561
Koplin Gallery, Kerry J. Marshall at, 561
New Negro Theatre, 421
Paul Revere Williams on Planning Commission, 895
Police Department
Thomas Bradley critical of excesses, 94
Thomas Bradley in, 93–94
Pueblo Del Rio housing project, 895
race relations, 93
Thomas Bradley, 94
Los Angeles Herald, 398
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 206
Losing Isaiah (film), 74
Lost Boys, The (Marshall), 561
Lost Zoo, The (Cullen), 203
Lott, Trent, 585
Louis, Joe, 544, 544–545
on Freedom’s People, 134
playing himself in The Fight Never Ends, 221
Louisiana
constitutional convention, P. B. S. Pinchback in, 672
State Senate, P. B. S. Pinchback elected to, 672
Thomas Morris Chester admitted to bar, 164
“Louisiana Lize” (Boles and Johnson Brothers), 458
Louisianian (newspaper), 672
Love (Morrison), 604
Love, Nat, 545–547, 546
Love and Trouble (Walker), 840
Lovejoy, Elijah P., 119
Lovell, Robert, 839
Love of Landry, The (Dunbar), 252
Love Supreme, A (album; Coltrane), 188
“Love Will Find a Way” (Sissle and Blake), 772
Low, Seth, 106
Lowe, Jim, 510
Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 141, 760
Lowrie, Walter, 86
Lucky Coon, A, 887
Lucky Millinder’s orchestra, 83, 340
Lucy Stone League, 508
Luminous Darkness, The (Thurman), 813
Lumumba, Patrice, 390
Lunceford, Jimmie, 205
LuPine records, 730
“Lute Continua, A” (column, Harris), 378
Lyceum movement, 108
Lyle, Marcenia. See Stone, Toni
Lyles, Aubrey, 81, 98, 772
Lynch, James, 710
Lynch, John Roy, 547–548
lynching
of World War I veterans, 212
“Lynching: Capitalism Its Cause; Socialism Its Cure” (Randolph), 699
“Lynching, The” (McKay), 581
“Lynching of Jube Benson, The” (Dunbar), 253
lynchings. See also anti-lynching movement
George White on, 879
of Mary Turner in 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, 880
Monroe Nathan Work’s concern with, 914
Walter White’s undercover investigations of, 880
Lynch John R., 120
Lynk, Miles Vandahurst, 548–549
Lyons, Maritcha Remond, 569
Lyons, William “Billy,” 784
Lyrics of Lowly Life (Dunbar), 252
Lyrics of the Hearthside (Dunbar), 252
Lysistrata, 678
Mabley, Moms, 344, 551, 551–552
influence on Sammy Davis Jr., 217
Macaulay, Zachary, 334
Macci, Rick, 898
Macero, Teo, 215
Mack, Cecil, 189
Mack, Connie, 462, 897
MacMillan, Donald, 396
MacNeice, Louis, 839
MacPhail, Larry, 508
Macumba (ballet; Ailey), 10
Madagascar
Clifton Reginald Wharton in, 872
Mifflin Gibbs consul to, 335
“Madam” (Hughes), 422
Madame C. J. Walker Hair Culturists Union of America, 844
Madden, Martin B., 229
Madden, Owney, 135
Maddox, Alton, 763
Madhubuti, Haki, 49
Mad TV, 479
Magasin, Das (magazine), 377
“Maggie” (Patton), 661
Magnolia Mutual Insurance Company, 283
Mahalia Jackson Scholarship Foundation, 437
Mahalia’s Beauty Salon, 435
Mahogany (film), 347, 731
Mahoney, Will, 717
Maine
Antislavery Society, 375
James Healy second bishop of Portland, 386
“Main Stem” (Ellington), 273
Mainstream label, 835
Maistre, Claude Paschal, 133
Major Bowes Amateur Hour, 309
Majors and Minors (Dunbar), 251
Makeba, Miriam, 66, 142
Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body and a Better Life (Winfrey), 906
“Making of a Writer, The: From the Poets in the Kitchen” (Marshall), 562
Making of Black Revolutionaries, The (Forman), 304
Making the Music (NPR), 559
Malach (Messenger; newsletter), 568
Malcolm X, 552–555, 553
admired by Bobby Seale, 759
assassination of, 616
effect on Amiri Baraka, 48
Denzel Washington as, 852, 853
eulogy by Ossie Davis, 217
influence on the Black Panthers, 626
interviewed by Kenneth Clark, 171
joining the Nation of Islam, 616
Maya Angelou and, 27
Muhammad Ali and, 16
overseeing Louis Farrakhan’s conversion and training, 289
supported by Eldridge Cleaver, 174
Malcolm X (film; Spike Lee), 526, 555
Malcolm X: Make It Plan (film; Bagwell and Richardson), 555
Malcolm X Speaks, 555
Malcolm X Speaks for Us (artwork; Catlett), 153
Malle, Louis, 214
Malone, Annie Turnbo, 555–556, 843
and foundation of St. Louis Aldridge Players, 638
Malone, John, 465
Malone, Vivian, 613
Mamba’s Daughters (Heyward), 859
Mambo (film), 257
Mammoth Pictorial Tour of the United States Comprising Views of the African Slave Trade (Duncanson and Ball), 255
Mammy: An Appeal to the Heart of the South (Brown), 106
Man, The (Sargent), 474
Management and Budget, Office of, 683, 696, 697
Man behind the Sound Bite, The (Sharpton), 763
Mance, Junior, 83
Mandela, Nelson, 911
Man Farthest Down, The (Washington), 850
Mangione, Chuck, 83
Mangum, Willie P., 158
Manhattan Project, J. Ernest Wilkins and, 882
Manly, Charles, 158
Mann, Kenneth Eugene, 230
Mann, Thomas, 618
Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal, 733
Manning, Sam, 327
Mannion, Elizabeth, 630
Mansfield, Mike, 872
Mantilla, Felix, 1
Mantle, Mickey, 2
Man Who Cried I Am, The (Williams), 892
“Many Thousand Gone” (Baldwin), 43
Mao Tse Tung influence on the Black Panthers, 626
“Maple Leaf Rag” (Joplin), 481
Mara (Grimké), 360
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (play; Wilson), 900
Marble, Alice, 336
March against Fear (1966)
Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer at, 369
Floyd McKissick in, 582
started by James Meredith, 586
Stokely Carmichael in, 141
March from Selma to Montgomery (1965)
Barbara Harris in, 378
John Hope Franklin in, 315
John Lewis and, 531
Martin Luther King and, 503
Ralph Bunche part of, 126
Marching Black: An Interpretive History of the Rise of the Black Common Man (Powell), 681
Marching toward Justice (traveling exhibit), 495
March on Washington (1941)
Anna Arnold Hedgeman’s help with, 390
Leon H. Sullivan and, 797
organized by A. Philip Randolph, 390, 700
Rayford W. Logan and, 541
March on Washington (1963)
A. Philip Randolph first speaker at, 700
Daisy Bates speaker at, 58
John Lewis’s speech at, 532
Josephine Baker’s speech at, 41
Mahalia Jackson singing at, 436
Martin Luther King’s speech, 503
Ossie Davis in, 221
Ruby Dee, 221
Bayard Rustin’s organization of, 742
Whitney Young and, 926
Marciano, Rocky, 545
Marcuse, Herbert, 207
Margerie, Emmanuel de, 44
Margold, Nathan, 416
Margolin, Bob, 861
Margouleff, Robert, 908
Marian Anderson (television documentary), 26
Marian Anderson Award, 24
“Marie of the Cabin Club” (Petry), 669
Marin, John, 223
Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA), Ernest Everett Just at, 491–492
Maris, Humphrey, 566
Maris, Roger, 299
Maritime Underground Railroad, 728, 812
Marlowe, B. D., 369
Maroon (sculpture; Puryear), 691
Maroon Biotech, Inc, 524
Marquard, Rube, 897
Marquis, Donald M., 87
Marrant, John, 556–557
marriage, Zilpha Elaw on, 269
Marrow of Tradition, The (Chesnutt), 161
Mars, James, 557–558
Marsalis, Branford, 83, 558
Marsalis, Ellis, 185
Marsalis, Wynton, 558–560, 559
Albert Murray’s influence on, 618
part of Jazz Messengers, 83
Marsh, Charles, 203
Marsh, Robert C., 630
Marshall, Abraham, 122
Marshall, Andrew, 122
Marshall, Arthur, 481
Marshall, Harriet Gibbs, 335
Marshall, James F. B., 848
Marshall, Kerry James, 560–562
Watts 1963, 560
Marshall, Louis, 456
Marshall, Margaret, 81
Marshall, Minnie, 444
Marshall, Paule, 562–563
in Harlem Writers Guild, 27
Marshall, Thurgood, 563–566, 564
influence on Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, 578
and integration of University of North Carolina, 582
John Hope Franklin and, 314
mentor of Constance Motley, 612
Robert L. Carter assistant counsel to, 145
Roscoe Dunjee and, 258
student of Charles Hamilton Houston, 416
student of William Henry Hastie, 381
teaching at Howard University Law School, 494
work with the NAACP, 881
“Martha” (Lorde), 543
Martin (ballet; Parks), 655
Martin, Barbara, 731
Martin, Jake, 661
Martin, Joe, 15
Martin, Sallie, 235
Martin, Sara, 63, 846
Martin and Selig’s Minstrels, 886
Martineau, Harriet, 197
Martin L. King Jr. Memorial Center for Nonviolent Social Change, 501
Martin Luther King holiday
Coretta King and, 501
Douglas Wilder and, 882
Martin L. King Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, 501
Stevie Wonder and, 908
Martins, Peter, 559
Marvelettes, 731
Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, The (Lorde), 543
Marvin, Ross, 396
Marvin Gaye: Live on Stage, 331
Marvin Gaye Live at the London Palladium, 333
Marx, Groucho, 218
Mary (Tanner), 800
Maryfield, Curtis, 312
Maryland. See also Baltimore
Home for Friendless Colored Children established by George Freeman Bragg, 95
State Colonization Society, 740
Maryland Historical Magazine, 693
Maryland Home (monthly), 95
Maryland in Liberia, 740
Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Statue (Lincoln Park, Washington, DC), 76
Mary Turner (A Silent Protest Against Mob Violence) (sculpture; Fuller), 319
Masaai (sculpture; Barthé), 51
Masekela, Hugh, 66
Maslow, Sophie, 599
Mason, C. Vernon, 763
Mason, Charlotte Louise, 421, 426
Massachusetts. See also Boston
Anti-Slavery Society, 708
Citizens for Life, 447, 448
Edward Brooke elected attorney general, 100
General Colored Association, David Walker and creation of, 842
School Suffrage Association, 735
State Federation of Women’s Clubs, 736
state legislature
Edward Brooke running for, 100
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 440, 744
Masses edited by Hubert Henry Harrison, 379
Massey, Walter Eugene, 566–567
Master Juba. See Lane, William Henry
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (Dunbar-Nelson), 253
Masters, Tiger Woods winning the, 911
Masters of the Dew (Roumain), 422
Mastin, Will, 218
“Match Box Blues” (B.L. Jefferson), 446
“Mathematical Description of Metabolizing Systems, A” (Branson), 96
mathematicians. See Science in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Mather, Cotton, 640
Matthew, Wentworth Arthur, 302, 567–569
Matthews, James Newton, 251
Matthews, Robert, 821
Matthews, Roger, 772
Matthews, Victoria Earle, 569–570
support of T. Thomas Fortune, 307
Matzeliger, Jan Earnst, 570–571
Maud Martha (Brooks), 101–102, 562
Maurice Evans as Richard II (sculpture; Barthé), 51
Maxim, Hiram Stevens, 516
Maxim, Joey, 727
Maxim lamp, 516
Maxwell, Elsa, 99
May, Billy, 181
May, Brother Joe, 784
May, Samuel, 542
“Maybellene” (song; Berry), 72
Mayfair Mansions, 590
Mayfield, Curtis, 653
Mayfield, Percy, 157
Maynor, Dorothy, 600
mayors. See Politics and Government in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Mays, Benjamin E., 287, 571–572
Dorothy Height’s work with, 391
Howard Thurman’s friendship with, 813
influence on
Martin Luther King, 501–502
Walter Massey, 566
mentor of Marian Edelman, 265
Mays, Sadie, 391
Mays, Willie, 572–574, 573
Hank Aaron compared to, 2
influence on O. J. Simpson, 768
Mazia, Violet de, 674
McCall, Carl, 702
McCarthy, Joseph, and McCarthyism, 422, 751
Ruby Dee’s resistance to, 221
McCartney, Paul, 438, 908
McCarver, Tim, 299
McClendon, Rose, 574–575. See also Rose McClendon Players
photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 574
McClinton, Marion, 901
McCollum, Robert. See Nighthawk, Robert
McComb movement, 611
McCormack, Mack, 464
McCoy, Bill. See Railroad Bill
McCoy, Elijah, 575, 575–576
McCullers, Carson, 860
McCullough, Walter, 349
McDaniel, Ellas. See Diddley, Bo
McDaniel, Hattie, 576–578, 577
McDonald, Gabrielle Kirk, 578–579
McDonald, Mark, 578
McFaro, George, 784
McFeely, William S., 692
McGee, Pam, 593
McGee, Paula, 593
McGee, Vonetta, 653
McGhee, Reginald, 833
McGill University Medical School, 245
McGlown, Betty, 730
McGraw, John, 897
McGuigan, Cathleen, 55
McGuire, George Alexander, 579–580
and UNIA, 302
McHenry, James, 45
McHenry, William “Jerry,” rescue of, 542
McKay, Claude, 580–582, 581
on Harlem, 596
James Weldon Johnson mentor to, 456
in Paris, 747
on Shuffle Along, 596
St. Clair Drake’s appreciation of, 244
McKay, Nellie Y., 412
McKayle, Donald, 10, 444, 599
McKendrick, Gilbert “Little Mile,” 63
McKenzie, Edna Chappell, 509
McKenzie, Fayette A., 133
McKenzie, Reynolds, 183
McKenzie, Vashti, 523
McKinley, William, 850
McKissick, Floyd Bixler, 582–583
McLaurin, George, 259
McLean, Jackie, 83
McLean, John, 752
McLendon, Johnny, 583–584
McLeod, Alice, 188
McNally, Dave, 300
McNeal, Theodore, 137
McNeely, Big Jay, 184
McNiven, Jeannette B., 92
McNiven, Thomas, 92
McPartland, Jimmy, 31
McPhee, John, 32
McQueen, Butterfly, 552
McRae, Carmen, 834
McShann, Jay, 649, 650
McSon trio, 156
Mead, Lawrence, 904
Me against the World (album; Shakur), 761
Measure of a Man, The: A Spiritual Autobiography (Poitier), 679
Medas, Eldon Stuart, 215
Medea and Some Poems, The (Cullen), 203
Medgar Evers Institute, 285
Medical and Surgical Observer, 549
medicine. See also Medicine in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
black physicians’ difficulties, 548–549
David Ruggles and hydropathy, 737
Durham’s practice of, 259–260
smallpox inoculation, 641
W. W. Brown’s interest in, 120
Meditations by Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (Stewart), 790
Meet Me in Las Vegas (film), 414
Meharry Medical College (Nashville, Tennessee), 890
Meier, August, 315, 528, 693
Meinong, Alexius, 538
Meli, Richard, 854
Melody Hounds, 576
Melody Maker, 406
Melrose, Lester, 104
Melrose Brothers, 30, 609
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers), 860
Member of the Wedding, The (television film), 38
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward (Steward), 788
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels, and Labours of Mrs. Elaw, An American Female of Colour (Elaw), 268–269
Memorandum Correlative of Africa, the West Indies and the Americas (Amy Jacques Garvey), 329
“Memphis Blues, The” (Handy), 372
Mencken, H. L., 916–917
Mendez, José, 897
Mendoza, Antonio de, 280
“Men of Color, to Arms” (Douglass), 239
Men of Mark (Simmons), 800
Men of Maryland (Bragg), 95
Mental Health Team in the School, The (M. M. Lawrence), 521
Mercer, Johnny, 203
Mercer, Mabel, 99
Mercury Records, 478, 552, 835
Meredith, James Howard, 584–586, 585
case argued by Constance Motley, 613
Medgar Evers and, 283, 284
Meridian (Walker), 840
Merrick, John, 586–587
Merrill, Alexander, 632
Merrill Lynch, 640
Merrit, Maurice, 497
Merritt, Jymie, 83
Merritt College, 759
Mersey, Robert, 311
Mesches, Arnold, 561
Message from the People, A, 157
Message to the Black Man (Muhammad), 616
Messenger, The (journal), 355
benchmark publication of the New Negro movement, 699
Dorothy West published in, 870
George Schuyler and, 750
Wallace Thurman managing editor of, 814
Messersmith, Andy, 300
Metcalfe, Ralph, 854
Methodist Episcopal Church. See also African Methodist Episcopal Church
and camp meetings, 269
formation of, 469
organization of at Christmas Conference in 1794, 21
racism in, 833
Solomon Bayley joining, 59
Zilpha Elaw’s joining of the, 268
Methodists, 469
black churches created by, 833
and slaves, 812
Metropolitan Opera (New York), 25, 257, 630, 686
Mexico
Cool Papa Bell playing in, 68
Elizabeth Catlett in, 152
Satchel Paige playing in, 648
Mexico Laws, Statues, etc. (Flipper), 298
Meyer, June. See Jordan, June
Meyers, Ann, 594
Meyers, Chief, 897
Mezzrow, Mezz, 596
M fume, Kweisi, 587, 587–589
Michael, George, 312
Michaux, Lightfoot Solomon, 589, 589–590
Micheaux, Oscar, 590–592
Michener, James, 388
Michigan
Coleman Young on Constitutional Convention, 924
Coleman Young on state senate, 924
Henry Bibb lecturer for Liberty Party, 77
University of, Law School, 267
Michigan Law Review, 266, 267
Middle Passage
described by Olaudah Equiano, 278, 279
evoked in Clorindy, 189
Phillis Wheatley and, 872
Midnight Love (album), 333
Midnight Special, 409
Mighty Quinn, The (film), 853
Migration of the Negro, The (Lawrence), 519
Mike Douglas Show, The (television), 910
Milam, J. W. “Big”, 815
Miler, Booker, 661
Miles, Buddy, 394
Miles Ahead (album), 214
Milestones (album), 187–188
Miley, James “Bubber”, 272
Militant South, 1800–1860, The (Franklin), 315
Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame, 92
Miller, Aleck, 860
Miller, Ann, 124
Miller, Cheryl, 592–594, 593
testimony on Title IX, 430
Miller, Flournoy, 81, 98, 772
Miller, John, 333
Miller, Kelly, 594–596
member of the American Negro Academy, 191
published in the Messenger, 699
Miller, Marcus, 312
Miller, Marvin, 299
Miller, May, 428
Miller, Orin, 42
Miller, Patrick, 857
Miller, Theodore, 717
Miller, William, 821
Miller, Zack T., 671
Millinder, Lucky, 83, 340
Million Man March (1995), 27, 290, 868
Millrose Game, 735
Mills, Florence, 596–597
photograph by James VanDerZee, 596
in Shuffle Along, 81, 772
Mills, Irving, 272
Mills Sisters, 596
Milner, Ron, 853
Milwood (ship), 812
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Dunbar-Nelson), 253–254
Mingus (Mingus and Joni Mitchell), 598
Mingus, Charles, Jr., 597–599
and recordings of Langston Hughes’s poetry, 420
Mingus Dances, The (Ailey), 598
Mingus Fingers (Mingus), 597
Minneapolis Spokesman, 654
Minneapolis Tribune (newspaper), 732
Minnie, Memphis, 104
Minnie’s Sacrifice (Harper), 375
Minnie the Moocher (Betty Boop cartoon short), 136
“Minnie the Moocher” (Calloway), 136
Minor, Dan, 53
Minority Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 22
minstrel shows. See also vaudeville
Harry Burleigh on minstrel songs, 129
Ma Rainey in, 697
Moms Mabley in, 551
Minton’s Playhouse, 601
Minute Book (Matthew), 568
Minutemen, Lemuel B. Haynes signed up as, 383
Miracle in Harlem (film), 295
Miracles, 331, 907
Mirror of Liberty (magazine), 737
Mirror of the Times (newspaper), 334
missionaries. See Religion in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Mississippi
Blanche K. Bruce elected senator of, 121
Child Development Group, 265
first black woman admitted to bar, 266
“George” scheme, John Roy Lynch’s protest of, 548
Greenville Air Base taken over by Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, 80
House of Representatives, John Roy Lynch elected to, 547
integration of University of, 585
Roy Wilkins’s investigation of working conditions at the Army Corps of Engineers, 885
Unita Blackwell elected mayor of Mayersville, 80
voter registration in, 611
Mississippi Action for Community Education Ine, (MACE), 80
Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival, 80
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), 885
at 1964 Democratic National Convention, 369
Eleanor Norton and, 633
influence on the Democratic Party, 39
Robert P. Moses and, 611
Unita Blackwell founding member of, 80
Mississippi Freedom Labor Union, 80
Mississippi Masala (film), 853
Mississippi Summer Project (1964)
Barbara Harris registering black voters in Mississippi, 377
and creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 39
H. Rap Brown and, 107
James Forman and, 304
Marian Wright Edelman and, 265
Robert P. Moses and, 611
Miss Muriel and Other Stories (Petry), 669
“Miss Otis Regrets” (Porter), 99
Missouri legislature, 137
“Misty” (Vaughan), 835
Mitchell, Abbie, 189, 190, 574
Mitchell, Arthur, 599, 599–600
Katherine Dunham’s influence on, 257
Mitchell, Arthur W., 230
Mitchell, Frank, 535
Mitchell, Joni, 598
Mitchell, Loften, 597
Mitchell, Mitch, 393
Mitchell, Parren, 588
Mitchell, Red, 185
mixed race as option on the 2000 census form, 911
Mo’ Better Blues (film; Lee), 525–526, 853
Mobley, Hank, 83
Mob Victim (Jones), 475
Model Cities Act, 863
“Modern Moses, or ‘My Policy’ Man” (Bell), 69
Modern Negro Art (Porter), 679
Modern Records, 409, 497
Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (album), 157
Moffatt, Windsor, 874, 875
Moffett, Charles, 184
Mojotech (Saar), 744
Mokone, Mangena, 827
Molyneaux, Tom, 600–601
Moms (Goldberg), 344
Moms Mabley, the Funniest Woman in the World (album), 552
Monet, Claude, 223
Monk, Thelonious, 601–602
Art Blakey recording with, 83
and Dizzy Gillespie, 340
John Coltrane playing with, 187
Monroe, William C., 77
Monster’s Ball (film), 74
Montage of a Dream Deferred (Hughes), 422
Montague, Eddie, 572
Montes, Pedro, 168
Montgomery, Alabama
bus boycott, 8, 288, 657
Edgar D. Nixon suggestion of, 629
started by Jo Ann Robinson, 656, 723
Dexter Baptist Church, 502
Kings and Abernathys in, 8
Mahalia Jackson singing at ceremony honoring Rosa Parks, 436
Montgomery Improvement Association, 502, 629, 657, 723
Ralph Abernathy program chair of, 8
Women’s Political Council, 629
and bus boycott, 8, 657
Jo Ann Robinson active in, 723
Montgomery, James, 824
Montgomery, Olen. See Scottsboro Boys
Montgomery Advertiser (newspaper), 695
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It, The (Robinson), 724
“Mood Indigo” (Ellington), 272
Moody, Helen Wills, 857
Moody, James, 83
Moon (magazine), 248
Moon, Haney Lee, 376
Moonglows, 331
Moon over Harlem (Johnson), 467
Moore, Aaron McDuffie, 587
Moore, Amzie, 80, 610
Moore, Charlie, 655
Moore, Frederick R., 664
Moore, George, 72
Moore, Henry, 152
Moore, Kenny, 33
Moore, Oscar, 180, 181
Moore, Ruth Alice. See Dunbar-Nelson, Alice
Moore, Will, 408–409
Moore, Willie, 661
“Moorish American” to replace “Negro,” 19
Moorish Holy Temple of Science, 20
Moorish Science Temple, 18, 20
Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA), 19, 20
Moorish Zionist Congregation, 568
Moorish Zionist Temple, 302
Moorland, Jesse E., 595
Moorland Foundation, 595
Mora, Francisco, 152
“Moral Training in Elementary Schools” (Locke), 538
Moran, Benjamin, 709
Mordecai, Ben, 900
Mordecai, Herman, 567
Morehouse College. See also Atlanta Baptist College
Benjamin E. Mays at, 571
Morehouse School of Medicine, 745–746
“More Than a Hamburger” (Baker), 39
Morgan, Connie, 796
Morgan, Garrett Augustus, 602–603
Morgan, Joe, 298
Morgan, Lee, 83, 341
Morganfield, McKinley. See Waters, Muddy
Morgan State University, 588, 693
Morris, John B., 734
Morris, Robert (antislavery activist), 197
Morris, Robert (artist), 690
Morris, Samuel, 290
Morrison, George, 576
Morrison, Harold, 604
Morrison, John, 728
Morrison, Slade, 605
Morrison, Toni, 603–606, 604
collaboration with Bill T. Jones, 471
at James Baldwin’s funeral, 44
John Alfred Williams’s influence on, 893
on June Jordan, 485
play on Emmett Louis Till, 816
teaching at Princeton, 768
and woman.life.song (Wier), 630
Morrison, William, 766–767
Morrow, E. Frederic, 606–607
Morrow, Edward, 376
Mortimer, Angela, 336
Morton, Benny, 53
Morton, Ferdinand Quintin, 607–608
Morton, Jelly Roll, 608–610
Mo’s Better Blues (film; Spike Lee), 525–526
Moscheles, Ignaz, 85
Moseley-Braun, Carol, 809
Moses, Franklin, Jr., 275
Moses, Man of the Mountain (Hurston), 427
Moses, Robert P., 610, 610–612, 885
Ella Baker mentor to, 39
Marian Edelman and, 265
Mosley, Walter, 404
Moss, Thomas, lynching of, 804
Mossell, Sadie Tanner. See Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell
Moten, Bennie, 52
Moten, Etta, 50
“Mother, The” (Brooks), 101
Mother and Child (sculpture; Catlett), 152
“Mother to Son” (Hughes), 420
Motley, Constance Baker, 612, 612–613
on James Meredith, 585
Moton, Jennie, 856
Moton, Robert Russa, 613–615
chosen to succeed Booker T. Washington, 753
Motortown Revue (1962), 331
Motown, 331, 346, 437, 730–731. See also Gordy, Berry, Jr.
Mott, Lucretia, 824
Mouet de Langlade, Charles-Michel, 261
mountain men. See Exploration in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
“Move On Up a Little Higher,” 436
Moving Mountains: The Principles and Purposes of Leon Sullivan (Sullivan), 798
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 618, 696
Mr. Lode of Koal, 887
Mr. Wonderful (musical), 218
Mrs. Patterson (Broadway), 505
“Mrs. Stewart’s Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston” (Stewart), 790
Ms. (magazine), 357
M Street High School (Washington, DC). See also Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Angelina Weld Grimké at, 359
Anna Julia Haywood Cooper principal of, 190, 191
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. at, 211
described by Jean Toomer, 818
Francis Louis Cardozo at, 141
James Reese Europe at, 281
Kelly Miller teaching at, 594
“M Street High School Controversy,” 191
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander at, 14
Muddy Waters. See Waters, Muddy
Muddy Water Sings Big Bill (album), 861
mugwumps, Archibald Grimké and, 361
Muhammad, Elijah, 615, 615–617
Louis Farrakhan’s first impression of, 289
Malcolm X follower of, 553
Malcolm X’s disillusionment with, 554
Noble Drew Ali’s influence on, 20
successor, 289
Muhammad, Khallid Abdul, 289
Muhammad, Wallace (Warith), 289
Muhammad, Wallace Deen, 18, 617
“Muhammad Ali” (Wilson), 900
Muhammad Speaks (newspaper), 289, 616
Mühlen, Raimond von zur, 23
Mulatto (play; Hughes), 421, 575
Mule Bone (Hughes and Hurston), 421, 427
Mules and Men (Hurston), 427
Muller, Gilbert, 893
Mulvihill, Michael J., 418
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed), 704–705
Munger, Louis D., 801
Münsterberg, Hugo, 538
Muppet Show, The, 341
murals
by Aaron Douglas, 236, 237
Black Americans in Flight (St. Louis International Airport)
Bessie Coleman included in, 184
Eugène Bullard depicted in, 125
by Charles Alston at Harlem Hospital, 223
Gwendolyn Brooks depicted in, 102
by Jacob Lawrence, 519
by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 55
by Kerry James Marshall, 561
by Romare Bearden, 61
Murder Inc. (film), 835
murder victims. See Till, Emmett Louis
Murdoch, Francis Butter, 751
Murphy, Charles F., 608
Murphy, David, 785
Murphy, Eddie, 690
Murphy, George W., 480
Murphy, Isaac, 533, 617, 617–618
Murray, Albert, 618–619
mentioning Cab Calloway, 136
Ralph Waldo Ellison and, 277
Murray, Charles, 904
Murray, Donald, 562
Murray, Jim, 5
Murray, Margaret James. See Washington, Margaret Murray
Murray, Pauli, 619–621, 620
James E. Shepard refusal to support, 765
published in Challenge Magazine, 870
Murray, Peter Marshall, 621–622
Murrow, Edward R., 25, 436
Musard, Philippe, 453
Museum (Dove), 242
musicals. See also musicals under titles of Amy Ashwood Garvey, 327
Madame Sissieretta Jones in, 477
Moms Mabley in black theatrical revues, 551
written by the Johnson Brothers, 458
musicians. See Music in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Music Inn (Berkshires), Mahalia Jackson at, 436
Music of My Mind (album; Wonder), 907
Musicquarium (album; Wonder), 908
Music School Settlement for Colored People (New York City), 459
Muslim Girls Training, 616
Muslim Mosque Inc., 554
Muste, A. J., 137, 502, 741
“Muttsy” (Hurston), 870
My American Journey (Powell), 683, 685
My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass), 780
Mydans, Carl, 655
“My Ding-A-Ling” (song; Berry), 73
My Favourite Things (album; Coltrane), 188
My Good Nerve (Dee), 221
My Green Hills of Jamaica (McKay), 581
My House (Giovanni), 343
My Larger Education (Washington), 850
My Life in New Orleans (Armstrong), 29
My Life of Absurdity (Himes), 404
My Lives and How I Lost Them (Cullen), 203
“My Mother’s Blue Bowl” (Walker), 841
My One Good Nerve (Dee), 221
Myrdal, Gunnar, 118, 706
American Dilemma, An: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, 118, 125, 706
on Joe Louis as inspiration, 545
My Soul’s High Song, My (Early), 202
My Southern Home; or, The South and Its People (W. W. Brown), 120
Mystery (newspaper), 226
Mystery Developed (Haynes), 384
“Myth of Negro Literature, The” (essay; Baraka), 49
NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Nabrit, James Madison, Jr., 416, 623
Benjamin E. Mays and, 571
Nabrit, Samuel Milton, 623
NACW. See National Association of Colored Women
NAG (Nonviolent Action Group), 106
Nail, John E., 664
Naismith, James, 583
Naison, Mark, 509
Naked Ear (periodical), 48
Naked Genius (Horton), 415
Nanton, Joe “Tricky Sam,” 272
Narcotics Abuse, Select Committee on, 702
Narrative, A (Bayley), 59
Narrative, of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprising Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man, A (Hammon), 370–371
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 821
Narrative of the Adventurers and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery, The (Roper), 728
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, 77
Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince, A (Prince), 687, 688
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself (Douglass), 239
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown Written by Himself, 111
Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (Now Going to Preach the Gospel in Nova Scotia), A, 556
Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, as Related by Himself, A (Gronniosaw), 364, 365
Narrative of William Wells Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, 120
Narrows, The (Petry), 669
Narváez, Pánfilo de, 279
NASCAR, Wendell Scott and, 754, 755
Nash, Joe, 444
Nash, Norman, 127
Nat Coles and His Royal Dukes, 180
Nathan, Syd, 112
Nation, The (magazine)
Claude McKay published in, 581
George Schuyler published in, 750
on Halle Berry, 74
Walter White published in, 880
National Academy of Engineering, 884
National Academy of Popular Music Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, 73
National Academy of Sciences, 79, 450, 490
National Advisory Committee of the Education of Negroes, 134
National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (CBIB), 441
National Afro-American Council/League, 307
National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), 805
National Anti-Slavery Standard (newspaper), 360
on William and Ellen Craft, 197
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, 97
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 248
agenda secretly supported by Booker T. Washington, 850
Alain Locke’s lecture series, 538
at Antioch College, Eleanor Norton and, 633
Archibald Grimké involved with, 361
Atlanta branch
Louis Tompkins Wright and, 915
Walter White founding member of, 880
Bond working as historian for in preparation of Brown, 89
Boston branch
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and, 736
Melnea Cass in, 151
Charles Hamilton Houston special counsel to, 416
in Charleston, Mordecai Johnson and, 463
Charles W. Chesnutt active in, 162
and Clark’s racial identity studies, 171
Constance Motley working at, 612
criticism from within, 885–886
Daisy Lampkin and, 509
E. Frederic Morrow field secretary of, 606
first legal victory, 258
first Oklahoma chapter, 258
Gabrielle McDonald staff attorney for, 578
George Dows Cannon’s affiliation with, 139
George Schuyler business manager of, 751
influence of the National Afro-American League, 307
and integration of University of North Carolina, 582
Jackie Robinson fund-raiser for, 721
James E. Shepard disassociating himself from, 765
James Farmer program director for, 288
James Weldon Johnson working for, 456
Kweisi Mfume president and CEO of, 589
Legal Defense and Educational Fund William T. Coleman working at, 186
legal team, James Nabrit in, 623
Louis Tompkins Wright chairman of the national board of directors, 915
Madame C. J. Walker’s contributions to, 844
Maggie Lena Walker on executive committee, 845
Medgar Evers and, 283, 284
Montgomery chapter
Edgar D. Nixon and, 629
Rosa Parks in, 656
Myrlie Evers-Williams and, 285
Oliver W. Harrington hired as director of public relations, 377
production of Rachel, 359
Richard Greener and, 352
Richmond branch cofounded by Maggie Lena Walker, 845
Robert Weaver chairman of the board of directors, 863
and Scottsboro Boys, 756
St. Louis branch, Ernest Calloway president of, 137
Thurgood Marshall and, 562
Vernon Jordan field director for Georgia, 488
W. E. B. Du Bois and, 249
Walter White’s work with, 880–881
Whitney Young and, 926
William Henry Hastie’s work with, 381
William Montague Cobb president of, 177
William Pickens and, 670–671
National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, 167
National Association Notes (magazine), 856
National Association of Amateur Base Ball Players, 34
National Association of College Women, 775
National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, 786
National Association of Colored Women
Maggie Lena Walker and, 845
National Association of Colored Women (NACW), 569, 865
beginning of, 109
efforts to develop coalition with white women’s organizations, 856
Fanny Coppin vice president of, 193
foundation
Charlotte F. Grimké and, 363
Mary Church Terrell and, 804–805
meeting, 103
Madame C. J. Walker member of, 844
Margaret Murray Washington membership coordinator, 856
Mary McLeod Bethune president of, 76
Nannie Burroughs chair of, 130
Woman’s Era Club origin of, 736
National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 150
National Association of Deans of Women and Advisors of Girls in Negro Schools, 775
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Tournament, 584
National Association of Negro Musicians, 24
National Association of Wage Earners, 130, 845
National Athletic Steering Committee, 583
National Ballet of Brazil, 600
National Ballet of Senegal, 257
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., 103, 235, 313, 335
National Baptist Conventions
separate Woman’s Convention, 130
Willie May Ford Smith singing at, 783
National Bar Association, 15
National Black Athletic Hall of Fame, 755
national black convention (Syracuse, 1968), 139
National Black Economic Development Conference (1969), 304
National Black Political Convention (Gary, Indiana, 1972), 49
National Cable and Telecommunication Association, 465
National Child Protection Act, Oprah Winfrey’s support for, 906
National CIO News, 137
National Colored Republican Conference, 509
National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century, 567
National Commission on Product Safety, 401
National Committee against Discrimination, 862
National Committee against Mob Violence, 881
National Conference of Colored Men of the United States (Nashville, 1879), 918
National Conference of Negro Artists (1971), 152
National Conference of Social Work, 472
National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth (1937), 76
National Convention of Colored Citizens (1843)
Charles Lenox Remond at, 707
Henry Highland Garnet at, 325
William Nell at, 624
National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, 235
Willie May Ford Smith and organization of, 783
National Council of Churches. See also Federal Council of Churches
Andrew Young
president of, 923
and Youth Work in New York City, 922
Anna Arnold Hedgeman assistant
director of Committee on Race
Relations, 390
National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
Daisy Lampkin and organization of, 509
Dorothy Height and, 391
Eunice Carter member of executive board of, 144
foundation
Lucy Diggs Slowe and, 775
Mary McLeod Bethune and, 76
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper vice president of, 375
national headquarters, 391–392
Unita Blackwell as
community-development specialist, 80
National Defense Advisory Commission, 862
National Emigration Convention (Cleveland, 1854)
James T. Holly delegate to, 408
Martin R. Delany and, 227
National Enquirer and Constitutional Advocate of Universal Liberty, 241
National Equal Rights League
founded by William Monroe Trotter, 819
John Mercer Langston president of, 513
National Feature Service, 50
National Federation of Afro-American Women (NFAAW)
creation of, 109, 856
Margaret Murray Washington and formation of, 856
Matthews editor of journal of, 569
merged with the Washington Colored League, 856
renamed National Association of Colored Women (NACW), 109
National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, 639
National Freedom Day Association, 919
National Geographic (magazine), 396
National Institute of Arts and Letters. See American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters
National Institute of Health, 22
National Institute of Science, 623
National Interracial Conference (Washington, 1928), 706
National Inventors Hall of Fame, 490
National Jockey’s Hall of Fame, 618
National Labor Party, 70
National League of Nursing Education, 786
National League of Republican Colored Women, 130
National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, 614
National Low-Income Housing Coalition, 101
National Mayors’ Conference, 80
National Medical Association
formal meetings with the AMA, 75
foundation
at the Cotton States and International Exposition (1895), 549
Daniel Hale Williams and, 890
Leonidas Berry president of, 75
Peter M. Murray as leader of, 622
Raphael Carl Lee president of, 525
William Montague Cobb president of, 177
National Medical Fellowships organization, 877
National Museum of African American History and Culture, 350
National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame, 618
National Negro Bar Association, 417
National Negro Business League
foundation, 849
Emmett Jay Scott and, 753
Mifflin Gibbs member of, 335
Philip Payton manager of, 664
Robert Moton president of, 614
National Negro Congress
Benjamin Jefferson Davis and, 208
Coleman Young and, 924
creation in 1935, 700
National Negro Conventions
chaired by Richard Allen in 1830, 21
eulogy of André Cailloux in 1864, 133
James W. C. Pennington vice president of, 667
Richard Allen at first meeting of, 21
National Negro Health Week, 849
encouraged by Monroe Nathan Work, 914
Mabel K. Staupers and, 787
National Negro Labor Council, 924
National News (newspaper), Oliver W. Harrington’s cartoons in, 376
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Anna Arnold Hedgeman and, 390
and Clarence Thomas, 809
Pauli Murray founding member of, 620
National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Center (Waterford, CT), 900
National Political Congress of Black Women, 168
National Polychemicals Inc., 401
National Right to Life Committee
Mildred Fay Jefferson on board of, 447, 448
Pro-Life Legal Action Project, 448
National Safety Device Company, 603
National Safety Hood, 603
National Science Board, 623
National Science Foundation (NSF), 566
National Sculpture Society, 52
national security advisors. See Powell, Colin; Rice, Condoleezza
National Security Council, 713
National Society of Black Physicists, 441
National States Rights party, 633
National Track and Field Hall of Fame
Alice Coachman, 176
Tommie Smith, 782
National Training School for Women and Girls (Washington, DC), 103, 129
National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, 39
National Urban League
Arthur Fletcher and, 926
Benjamin Quarles secretary of New Orleans, 693
Benjamin Quarles vice president of, 693
Charles S. Johnson director of research and investigations, 451
Daisy Lampkin on staff in Pittsburgh, 509
Eugene Kinckle Jones first field secretary of, 472
Frederick Douglass O’Neal in St. Louis, 638
Ira De Augustine Reid director of research, 706
Ira De Augustine Reid industrial secretary of New York, 705
Maggie Leana on board of Richmond, 845
Mary McLeod Bethune vice president of, 76
Ron Brown at head of Washington Bureau, 117
Ron Brown working for, 117
Vernon Jordan at head of, 117, 489, 926
Whitney Young and, 926
Willie Mays working for, 572
National Watchman (newspaper), 325
National Woman’s Rights Convention (1858), 709
National Women’s Hall of Fame
Constance Motley, 613
Mae Jemison, 450
National Youth Administration
Constance Motley’s job with, 612
Mary McLeod Bethune director of Negro Affairs for, 76
Nation of Islam (NOI)
and assassination of Malcolm X, 554
economic independence as priority, 616
Eldridge Cleaver joining, 174
Louis Farrakhan’s introduction to, 289
Malcolm X breaking with, 554
Mu’ammar Gadhafi’s loan to, 289
Muhammad Ali joining, 17
racial mythology of, 615–616
resurrection by Louis Farrakhan, 289
size of, 616
Native American ancestry
Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 254
Berry Gordy, Jr., 346
Bessie and Sadie Delany, 224
Bessie Coleman, 182
Cesar, 153
Charley Patton, 661
claimed by Noble Drew Ali, 18
Cool Papa Bell, 67
Crispus Attucks, 35, 36
Daniel Alexander Payne, 663
Edmonia Lewis, 529
Eugène Jacques Bullard, 124
Garrett Augustus Morgan, 602
George Henry White, 878
John Mercer Langston, 512
Katherine Dunham, 256
Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, 589
Moses Roper, 728
Nancy Prince, 687
Paul Cuffe, 200, 201
Pauli Murray, 620
Sam Lacy, 507
Tiger Woods, 911
Native Americans. See also African Seminole Indians; Crow Indians
Betsey Stockton’s school for, 794
Blanche Kelso Bruce in favor of more humane Indian policy, 121
Briton Hammon prisoner of, 370
Coltrane absorption of elements of Indian music, 188
converted by Marrant, 556
David George hiding among the Creek Indians, 333
Edward Rose and, 729, 730
Equiano missionary to the Mosquito Indians, 279
Esteban and, 280
featured in Edmonia Lewis’s work, 530
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and, 260, 261
Jim Beckwourth and, 63, 64, 65
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar work on Apache reservation, 6
literature collections edited by Ishmael Reed, 705
Nat Love and, 546
Patrick Francis Healy head of the Catholic Commission on Indian Affairs, 389
Potawatomie Indians, 260
York and, 921, 922
“Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari” (Basquiat), 54
Native Son (film), 918
Native Son (play; Wright and Green), 917
Native Son (Wright), 917
Ann Petry’s The Street compared to, 669
supported by Alain Locke, 539
Nat King Cole Show, The, 181
Nat King Cole Story, The, 181
Natural Born Gambler, A (film), 887
Natural Man (Browne), 638
Navy Department, 548
Naylor, Gloria, 905
“Need for a New Organon in Education, The” (Locke), 539
Negritude
Claude McKay and, 581
influence on Romare Bearden, 61
Negro Actors’ Guild
foundation
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and, 718
Noble Sissle and, 773
Frederick Douglass O’Neal president of, 639
Negro American Labor Council (NACL), 700
Negro Americans, What Now? (Johnson), 457
“Negro and Socialism, The” (series, Harrison), 379
Negro and the Post-War World, The (Logan), 541
Negro and the Promise of American Life, The (television series), 171
“Negro-Art Hokum, The” (Schuyler), 750
“Negro Artists and the Racial Mountain, The” (Hughes), 422
Negro Baptist Convention, 463
Negro Baptist Pulpit, 103
Negro Caravan, The: Writings by American Negroes (eds. Brown, Lee, and Davis), 118
Negro Christianized, The (Mather), 640
Negro Churchman, 580
Negro Community of Baltimore, The—Its Social and Economic Conditions (Urban League), 706
Negro Convention Movement, 219
Negro Convert, The: A Poem; Being the Substance of the Experience of Mr. John Marrant, A Negro, 556
Negro Curse, The, 13
Negro Dance Group, 256
Negro Digest (journal)
August Wilson published in, 900
beginning of, 458
Era Bell Thompson editor at, 811
on Isaac Murphy, 618
Nikki Giovanni published in, 342
“Negro Digs Up His Past, The” (Schomburg), 749
Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel (Bond), 89
Negroes and Anglo-Africans as Freed Men and Soldiers, The (Sarah Remond), 709
Negroes in America, The (McKay), 581
Negroes of Farmville, Virginia, The: A Social Study (Du Bois), 248
Negroes with Guns (Williams), 759
Negro Factories Corporation, 330
Negro Family in Chicago, The (Frazier), 316
Negro Family in the United States, The (Frazier), 316
“Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs” (S. Brown), 118
Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (Lomax and Lomax), 522
Negro for a New Century, A (Washington and Fortune), 307
Negro Genius, The (Brawley), 98
Negro Ghetto, The (Weaver), 862
“Negro Hero” (Brooks), 101
Negro History Bulletin, 912
on Oscar S. De Priest, 230
Samuel M. Nabrit’s articles in, 623
Negro History Week launched by Carter G. Woodson, 912
Negro Immigrant, The: His Background, Characteristics and Social Adjustment, 1899–1937 (Reid), 706
Negro in American Civilization: A Study of Negro Life and Race Relations in the Light of Social Research, 706
Negro in American Fiction, The (Brown), 118
Negro in American Life and Thought, The: The Nadir, 1877–1901 (Logan), 541
Negro in Business, The (Washington), 850
ghostwritten by T. Thomas Fortune, 307
Negro in Chicago, The: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, 451
Negro Industrial League (NIL), 862
“Negro in Literature (1925–1944), The” (S. Brown), 118
Negro in New York, The: An Informal Social History (Ottley and Weatherby), 429
Negro in Our History, The (Woodson), 913
Negro in Politics, The (Fortune), 307
“Negro in Scientific Research, The” (Branson), 96
“Negro in the American Economic System, The” (Reid), 706
Negro in the American Rebellion, The (Brown), 120
Negro in the American Revolution, The (Quarles), 693
Negro in the Civil War, The (Quarles), 693
“Negro in the Kentucky Coal Fields, The” (Calloway), 137
Negro in the Making of American, The (Quarles), 693
Negro in Virginia, The (S. Brown), 118
Negro Labor: A Problem of Today (Weaver), 862
Negro Labor in the United States, 1850–1925: A Study in American Economic History (Wesley), 866
Negro Liberator (journal), 208
Negro Market Newsletter, 892
Negro Membership in America Labor Unions (Urban League), 706
Negro Migration during the War (Scott), 753
“Negro National Anthem, The.” See “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (Johnson)
Negro National News, 38
Negro Nuances (musical: Cook and Mitchell), 63
Negro Organization Society of Virginia
founded by Robert Moton, 614
Maggie Lena Walker member of, 845
Negro Outlook, The (periodical), 550
Negro Poetry and Drama (S. Brown), 118
Negro Population of Albany, The (Reid), 706
Negro Press Association, 864
Negro Professional Man and the Community, The (Woodson), 913
Negro Protest, The (Clark), 171
Negro Quarterly: A Review of Negro Life and Culture (magazine)
Angelo Herndon assistance to Ellison, 398
Ralph Waldo Ellison managing editor of, 276
“Negro Question without Propaganda, The” (Schuyler), 751
Negro’s Church, The (Mays and Nicholson), 572
“Negro Scientists, The” (Branson), 96
Negro’s God as Reflected in His Literature (Mays), 572
Negro Society for Historical Research, 748
Negro Soldier, The (film; Capra), 212
Joe Louis in, 545
“Negro Speaks of Rivers, The” (Hughes), 419, 420
Negro spirituals, 456
Harry Burleigh on, 129
influence on
B. B. King, 497
Berry Gordy, 346
John Lee Hooker, 408
Paul Robeson’s concert of, 715
“Negro Votes Bought” (Hurston), 427
Negro Wage Earner, The (Woodson), 913
Negro Woman, The series (Catlett), 152
Negro Women Inc., 668
Negro Women’s Equal Franchise Federation, 509
Negro World (newspaper), 326
Amy Jacques Garvey associated editor, 328
circulation of, 330
Dorothy Height proofreader for, 391
Hubert Henry Harrison principal editor of, 380
T. Thomas Fortune editor of, 307
Negro Yearbook, 914
Neimark, Paul, 645
Neimore, John, 56
Neiroff, Robert, 373
Nell, Henry, 663
Nell, William Cooper, 624–625, 875
and Harriet Jacobs, 442
and William and Ellen Craft, 197
Nellegarde, Dantes, 540
Nelson, “Big Eye” Louis, 62
Nelson, Eddie, 772
Nelson, Robert J., 253
Nelson, Ruth, 430
Nelson, Willie, 157
Never No More (play), 575
New American Caravan, The, 819
New Amsterdam Musical Association, 301
Newark Advance, 704
New Bedford-Union Society, 803
New Bill Cosby Show, The (television), 194
New Cab Calloway’s Hepsters Dictionary, The: Language of Jive, 136
New Challenge (magazine), 276
New Citizen (newspaper), 137
Newcomb, Simon, 594
New Dance Group, 599
New Day (newspaper), 291
New England
Amateur Athletic Union, 795
Colored Citizens Convention, 46
Female Medical College, 199
Women’s Press Association, 735
New England Magazine, 362
New Era (magazine), 412
New Faces of 1952 (musical), 505
Newhall, Beaumont, 833
New Haven Negro Youth Council, 612
New Homes for Today (Williams), 894
New Jersey
Althea Gibson as State Athletic Commissioner, 337
Hazel R. O’Leary assistant attorney general, 635
Whitesboro as all-black community, 879
New Leader (journal)
Albert Murray published in, 618
Claude McKay published in, 581
New Light Congregationalists, 383
Newman, Joe, 53
New Masses, The, 917
New National Era (newspaper), 240
New National Era and Citizen (publication), 350
New Negro, The (Pickens), 670
New Negro, The: An Interpretation of Negro Life (Locke), 420, 539
Aaron Douglas’s artwork in, 237
Arthur Schomburg included in, 749
edited by Hubert Henry Harrison, 380
writings of Toomer included in, 817
New Negro Alliance, 381
New Negro Movement
Hubert Henry Harrison and, 379
Walter White and, 880
New Negro Poets: USA (Hughes), 422
New Orleans
Benjamin Quarles on Council of Social Services, 693
disfranchisement in, 609
Ma Rainey performing in, 698
segregation in, 609
Wynton Marsalis first trumpet with Civic Orchestra, 558
New Orleans (film), 406
New Orleans Bootblacks, 28
New Orleans Democrat (newspaper), 517
New Orleans Feetwarmers, 63
New Orleans Wanderers, 28
Newport Folk Festival
John Lee Hooker at, 409
Muddy Waters at, 861
Newport Jazz Festival
Duke Ellington at, 273
Eubie Blake at, 82
John Bubbles at, 123
Mahalia Jackson at, 437
Ray Charles at, 157
Willie May Ford Smith at, 784
Wynton Marsalis at, 558, 559
Newport Mercury, 872
New Republic, The (magazine)
on Ishmael Reed, 705
Walter White published in, 880
Newsday (newspaper), 763–764
Newspaper Boy (Bannister), 46, 47
newspaper editors. See Journalism in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
newspaper publishers. See Journalism in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
New Statesman, The, 142
New Survey of English Literature, A (Brawley), 98
Newsweek (magazine)
Bill Cosby on cover of, 689
Mark Whitaker and, 876
Tommie Smith as cover story of, 782
Toni Morrison on cover of, 605
New Thought philosophy
Father Divine and, 290
influence on Reverend Ike, 711
Newton, Huey P., 625, 625–627, 760
Bobby Seale meeting of, 759
Eldridge Cleaver meeting, 174
Newton, Joseph Fort, 450
Newton, Thandie, 605
New York Academy of Sciences, 166
New York Age (newspaper)
Archibald Grimké’s columns in, 361
Booker T. Washington secret support of, 850
on “colored show business,” 887
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett’s antilynching editorials, 864
James Weldon Johnson’s column, 456
on Madame Sissieretta Jones, 476
obituary of Scott Joplin, 482
T. Thomas Fortune at, 307
Victoria Matthews news correspondent for, 569
New York City. See also Harlem
African Bible Society, 834
African Society for Mutual Relief
James Varick work for, 834
Peter Williams Jr. member of, 895
African Wilberforce Benevolent Society of New York, 834
Baruch College, 863
Cinqué Gallery cofounded by Romare Bearden, 61
Citizens’ Coordinating Committee, 390
Colored Citizens of New York, 69
Commission on Integration for the New York City Board of Education, 38
Constance Motley president of the borough of Manhattan, 613
Cooper Union, Augusta Savage at, 746
Copacabana, Moms Mabley at, 552
Council
Adam Clayton Powell elected to, 681
Benjamin Jefferson Davis on, 208
Dizzy Gillespie at Onyx Club, 341
Dorothy Dandridge first black headliner at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 206
Downtown Gallery exhibition The Migration of the Negro, 519
Economic Development Commission, 660
Eight Street Playhouse, 223
Elizabeth Greenfield singing in, 353
Emergency Relief Bureau, 390
Eunice Carter prosecutor for criminal courts, 144
finances at time of David Dinkins election, 232
In Friendship, 742
Gaslight Café, Bill Cosby at, 194
Greater New York Coordinating Committee for Employment, 681
Home Relief Bureau of the New York City Welfare Administration, 391
hospitals, difficulties of black physicians to obtain privileges at, 138
Human Rights Commission, Eleanor Norton head of, 633
Improv, Richard Pryor at, 689
Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children, 181
Jack Shainman Gallery, Kerry J. Marshall at, 561
James Earl Jones in Shakespeare Festival, 473
James McCune Smith and Abolition Society, 780
John Bubbles playing at Radio City Music Hall, 123
Kentucky Club, Duke Ellington at, 272
Kootz Gallery, 60, 61
Manhattan Central Medical Society, 138
Municipal Civil Service Commission, 608
Museum of Modern Art purchase of half the series of The Migration of the Negro, 519
National Conservatory of Music, Will Marion Cook at, 189
National Youth Movement (Brooklyn), 763
New York College of Music, 28
New York Tuberculosis and Health Association, 786
Non-Partisan Citizens’ Committee, 138
127th Street Ensemble Theater, 761
Otabenga in care of Museum of Natural History, 642
Phoenix Society
David Ruggles speaking for, 736
Peter Williams and, 896
Samuel Cornish founder of, 193
Plantation Cafe, 637
Plantation Club, 40
racial incidents under David Dinkins, 233
Roko Gallery, 224
School for the Performing Arts, 599
Shiloh Presbyterian Church, 667
Upper Manhattan Zone, 661
Village Vanguard, sessions recorded live at, 188
Warren Roberton’s Theater Workshop, 527
Washington Square Outdoor Exhibit, 223
Washington Temple Church of God in Christ, 762
White Rose Home and Industrial
Association for Working Girls, 253, 570
Hubert Henry Harrison teaching at, 379
White Rose Mission, 569
New York City Ballet, 599, 600
New York Clay Club, 52
New York Committee of Vigilance founded by David Ruggles, 737
New York Convention of Colored Men, 787
New York Daily News (newspaper), 870–871
New Yorker (magazine)
on Arthur Ashe, 32
on Bill T. Jones, 471
interview of William Julius Wilson, 903
on James Earl Jones, 473
on Josephine Baker in Paris, 40
New York Evening Journal, 398
New York Evening Post (newspaper), 574
New York Freeman (newspaper)
on George White, 879
T. Thomas Fortune at, 307
New York Globe (newspaper)
T. Thomas Fortune and, 307
W. E. B. Du Bois published in, 247
New York Herald (newspaper), 477
New York Herald-Tribune (newspaper), 880
New York Intelligence Office, 70
NewYork/New Wave at P.S.I, 55
New York Philomathean Society, 703
New York Public Library. See also Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Aaron Douglas’s mural for Countée Cullen Library, 237
Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints
Hubert Henry Harrison’s role in developing, 380
Jean Blackwell Hutson at, 428
New York Society for the Promotion of Education among Colored Children, 703
New York State
Advisory Council on Employment and Unemployment Insurance, 613
African Free School, 193, 324
Assembly
Charles Rangel elected to, 701
Shirley Chisholm in, 167
Christian Youth Council, 391
Elizabeth Greenfield singing in Buffalo, 352
Fugitive Aid Society, Jermain Wesley Loguen and, 542
Senate, Constance Motley elected to, 613
Tammany Hall, Ferdinand Morton and, 608
Underground Railroad in, 542
Vigilance Committee, 193
“New York Subway, The” (Hopkins), 412
New York Sun (newspaper), 387–388
New York Syncopated Orchestra, 189
New York Times (newspaper)
on Bamboozled, 526
on Bill Cosby’s early engagement, 194
on Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, 471
on David Dinkins, 233
E. Frederic Morrow interview with, 607
on Eartha Mae Kitt, 505
on Ethel Waters, 859
Flo Hyman interview with, 430
Hazel R. O’Leary interview in, 636
on Isaac Murphy, 618
on Jean-Michel Basquiat, 55
on Otabenga, 642
on Pearl Bailey, 37, 38
on Scott Joplin, 482
and Scottsboro Boys, 756
on Venus Williams, 898
Victoria Matthews news correspondent for, 569
on Wilson’s The Truly Disadvantaged, 904
on The Women of Brewster Place, 905
New York Times Magazine, 584
New York Tribune (newspaper), 454, 878
New York Weekly, 569
New York World, 596
New York World’s Fair (1939), 747
NFL Hall of Fame
Jim Brown, 116
O. J. Simpson, 769
Walter Payton, 666
Niagara Movement, 248, 411
Archibald Grimké joining, 361
influence of the National Afro-American League, 307
joined by George Freeman Bragg, 95
Monroe Nathan Work and, 913
Richard Greener at second convention, 352
supported by William Pickens, 670
William Monroe Trotter in, 819
Nicholas, Fayard, 124
Nicholas, Harold, 205
Nicholas Brothers, 847
Nicholls, F. T., 672
Nichols, John F., 924
Nichols, Mike, 344
Nicholson, Joseph, 572
Nicklaus, Jack, 911
Nicodemus Visiting Jesus (Tanner), 800
Nieboer, Roger, 796
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 502
Nielsen, Kurt, 337
Nigeria
independence celebration photographed by Moneta Sleet, 774
Jacob Lawrence in, 519
Martin R. Delany in, 227
Randall Robinson and, 726
Nigger Add, 627–629
Nigger Heaven (Van Vechten), 420, 421
Night-Blooming Cereus, The (Hayden), 382
Night Comes Softly (Giovanni), 342
Nighthawk, Robert, 234
influence on Muddy Waters, 860
Robert Johnson’s influence on, 464
“Night in Tunisia, A” (Gillespie), 340
Night Song (Williams), 892
“Nikki Rosa” (Giovanni), 342
Nile Queen hair-care products, 49
Nine Decades of Scholarship, 429
Nipson, Herbert, 811
Nixon, Edgar Daniel, 629, 656, 723
Nixon, Richard M., 5, 57, 97, 112, 139, 146, 186, 218, 281, 483, 495, 565, 606, 696, 701, 702, 721, 860, 884, 926
E. Frederic Morrow and campaign, 607
Edward Brooke critical of, 101
Niza, Marcos de, 280
Nkrumah, Kwame
Amy Jacques Garvey and, 329
Anna Arnold Hedgeman and, 390
influence on James Forman, 303
inspired by Marcus Garvey, 331
Jean Blackwell Hutson and, 429
Malcolm X meeting, 554
Paul Robeson and, 715
St. Clair Drake adviser to, 244
W. E. B. Du Bois invited by, 250
Nobel laureates. See Bunche, Ralph; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Morrison, Toni; Walcott, Derek
Noble Savage (magazine), 277
“Nobody” (Williams), 887
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 43
“Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” (Smith), 779
Noël Coward’s Sweet Potato, 600
Noguchi, Isamu, 691
Nolan, John J., 477
No Maps on My Taps (musical), 123
No Name in the Street (Baldwin), 44
nonviolence
Bayard Taylor Rustin and, 741, 742
Charlotte Hawkins Brown and, 106
Coretta King and, 500
Daisy Bates and, 58
Ella Baker on, 39
Floyd McKissick teaching to sit-in participants, 582
James Farmer introduced to by Howard Thurman, 287
James Forman and, 304
James Meredith on, 585
John Lewis and, 532
Leon Howard Sullivan and, 797
Malcolm X critical of, 554
Martin Luther King and, 502, 504
Pauli Murray and, 620
Ralph Abernathy and, 8
William Monroe Trotter and, 820
Norfolk (MA) County Gazette, 359
Norfolk Herald, 828
Norman, Jessye, 629–631, 630
tribute to Marian Anderson, 25
Norman . . . Is That You? (film), 37
Norris, Clarence. See Scottsboro Boys
Norris, Green, Harris, and Higginbotham, 399
Norris, James Flack, 401
North American Convention of Colored Freemen (Toronto, 1851), 226
North American League, 78
Northampton Association of Education and Industry, 33
David Ruggles and, 737
Sojourner Truth settled with, 821
North Atlantic Research Corporation, 401
North Carolina. See also Durham College for Negroes, 765
1900 constitutional amendment disenfranchising most black voters, 879
Duke University commission for Julian Abele, 7
Efland Home for Wayward Girls (Orange County), 106
Floyd McKissick’s appointment to Ninth Judicial District, 583
George Moses Horton in Literary Hall of Fame, 415
George White elected to state house, 879
George White elected to state senate, 879
Intercollegiate Council on Human Rights, 433
Soul City, 583
State Federation of Negro Women’s Clubs, 106
University of, Floyd McKissick’s integration of, 582
North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, 587
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
James E. Shepard among first investors, 764
Sadie Alexander working at, 14
North Cove Pylons (Puryear), 692
North Dakota Historical Society Quarterly, 730
Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference, 554
Northern Students’ Movement, 265
North Star (journal), 239, 325, 624
North up, Solomon, 631–632
Parks’s film on, 655
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 632–634
and Operation Crossroads Africa, 722
Norton, Ken, 17
Norway, Clifton Reginald Wharton ambassador to, 872
Norwood, Dorothy, 784
“No Sex in Brains and Ability” (Amy Jacques Garvey), 328
Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 42, 43
Notes on the State of Virginia (Jefferson), 842
No Time for Prejudice: The Story of the Integration of Negroes in Nursing in the United States (Staupers), 787
Notorious BIG, The (Biggie Smalls, or Christopher Wallace), 761
Not without Laughter (Hughes), 421
Nova Scotia
Boston King in, 499
David George in, 333–334
John Marrant in, 556
novelists. See Brooks, Gwendolyn; Larsen, Nella; Williams, John Alfred
No Way Out (film), 216
Sidney Poitier in, 678
Noyes Academy, 198
Nozick, Robert, 867
Nuit est une sorcière, La (Bechet), 63
“Numb Fumblin’” (Waller), 847
nuns. See Healy, Eliza
Nurmi, Paavo, 527
nursing
Daniel Hale Williams creation of school for black women, 889
included in ROTC program, 468
nursing school in Boston black community, 150
school at Freedmen’s Hospital (Washington, DC), 889
O, Sing a New Song, 773
Oak and Ivy (Dunbar), 251
Oberlin College, 512
Anna Julia Cooper at, 190
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 189
O’Brian, Robert E., 810
Occom, Samson, 873
Ocean Eleven (film), 218
Oerter, Al, 527
Oertle, Ernie, 464
O’Fallon, Benjamin, 730
Office of Civilian Defense (OCD), 292
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (Delany), 227
Off the Wall (album; Michael Jackson), 438
produced by Quincy Jones, 479
Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self (Hopkins), 412
Ohio
Central State University, 195, 867
Chester Himes in Writer’s Project, 403
George Washington Williams elected to House of Representative, 890
John Mercer Langston at head of State Anti-Slavery Society, 513
Ohio State Tribune, 733
Oh Lord, Don’t Drop that Atomic Bomb on Me (Mingus), 598
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 223
Okeh records, 63, 104, 637, 846
Okker, Tom, 32
Oklahoma City, jazz in, 276
Okoye, Felix, 244
Old Add. See Nigger Add
Old Catholic Church of America, 580
Old Mole (Puryear), 691, 691
O’Leary, Hazel R., 635, 635–636
at Fisk, 452
O’Leary, John F., 636
Oliver, Joseph. See Oliver, King
Oliver, King, 636–638, 637. See also King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
and Duke Ellington, 272
influence on Louis Armstrong, 29, 638
Lil Armstrong playing with, 28
Ma Rainey performing with, 698
Oliver, Perry, 84
Oliver Galop, 85
Olsen, Tillie, 165
Olson, Carl “Bobo,” 726, 727
Olson, Charles, 48
Olympia (film; Riefenstahl), 644
Olympians against the Wind: The Black American Female Difference (Emerson), 794
Olympic and Amateur Athletic Union, 644
Olympic Games
Alice Coachman at, in 1947, 175
Atlanta games in 1996
Andrew Jackson Young on organizing committee, 923
Carl Lewis at, 527
Barcelona games in 1992
Carl Lewis, 527, 527
Michael Jordan, 487
Berlin Games in 1936, Jesse Owens at, 643–644
Los Angeles games in 1984, 222
Carl Lewis, 527
Cheryl Miller, 593
Flora Hyman, 430
Michael Jordan, 486
Thomas Bradley, 94
Louise Stokes at Los Angeles games in 1932, 794
Melbourne games in 1956
Bill Russell, 738
Jesse Owens as goodwill ambassador, 644
Wilma Rudolph on U.S. team, 734–735
Mexico games in 1968
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s boycott of, 5
Tommie Smith’s and John Carlos’s black power salute, 5, 644, 782
Montreal Games, Anita DeFrantz at, 222
Rome games in 1960
Muhammad Ali at, 16
Wilma Rudolph in, 735
Seoul games in 1988, Carl Lewis at, 527
Sydney games in 2000, Venus Williams at, 898
Olympic Project for Human Rights, 782
O’Malley, Martin, 508
O’Melveny & Myers, 186
Omni-Americans, The (Murray), 618
Omnibus Education Act (1972), 592–593
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 871
On Broadway Tonight (television), 689
“once free always free” doctrine, 752
Onderdonk, Benjamin T., 896
O’Neal, Frederick Douglass, 638–639
in Anna Lucasta, 164
cofounder of American Negro Theater, 220
and Sidney Poitier, 677
O’Neal, Stanley, 639–640, 661
O’Neal Twins, 784
101 Ranch Wild West Show, 671
One Hundred Conventions tour, 238
100 Rifles (film), 116
Oneida Institute
Alexander Crummell at, 198
Jermain Wesley Loguen at, 542
O’Neil, Buck, 796
“One O’clock Jump” (Basie), 53
One Scene from the Drama of Early Days (Hopkins), 411
Onesimus, 640–641
One-Way Ticket (Hughes), 422
One Way to Heaven (Cullen), 203
One Woman’s Army (Earley), 264
“On Liberty and Slavery” (Horton), 415
online magazines founded by Ishmael Reed, 705
Only Dark Spot in the Sky, The (Dove), 242
“On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon” (Petry), 669
On Striver’s Row (Hill)
Ann Petry acting in, 668
first production of the American Negro Theater, 638
Ruby Dee, in, 220
Sidney Poitier in, 678
“On the Fourteenth Query of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia” (J. M. Smith), 780
“On the Pulse of the Morning” (Angelou), 27
On These I Stand (Cullen), 203
On with the Show (film), 859
Open-Letter Club, 162
Open Letter to His Serene Majesty, Leopold II, King of the Belgians, An (G. W. Williams), 890
opera influence on Sidney Bechet, 62
opera singers. See Music in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Operation Breadbasket, 797
Al Sharpton youth director for the Brooklyn office, 763
Jesse Jackson appointed director of, 433, 434
Operation Crossroads Africa, 722–723
Operation Dixie, 137
Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity), 289, 434
Opportunities Industrialization Centers, 797
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life (magazine)
Aaron Douglas and, 237
Alain Locke’s book reviews in, 539
Countée Cullen assistant editor, 203
on Cullen’s Color, 202
Dorothy West published in, 870
E. Frederic Morrow business manager of, 606
edited by Charles S. Johnson, 451
Ernest Calloway published in, 137
Eugene Kinckle Jones and launching of, 472
Gamin by Augusta Savage on cover, 747
Langston Hughes in contest, 419
Pauli Murray field representative for, 620
review of Walter White’s Flight, 880
S. Brown’s column for, 118
Sterling Brown published in, 118
Zora Neale Hurston published in, 426
Opportunity Fellowships Program of John Hay Whitney Foundation, 862
Oprah Winfrey Show, The, 605, 905, 911
Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, An: Delivered in the African Church, in the City of New York (Williams), 895
orchestra leaders. See Music in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
orchestrators. See Music in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), 554
Organization of American Historians, 315
Organizer, The (Hughes), 421
Orgena (Farrakhan), 289
Oriental America, 458
Original Kings of Comedy, The (documentary; Spike Lee), 526
Original Poems (Brooks), 103
“Origin and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry” (Delany), 227
“Ornithology” (Parker), 651
Orthodox Apostolic Church of Haiti, 408
orthopedic surgeons. See White, Augustus Aaron, III
Ory, Edward “Kid”
King Oliver playing with, 637
Louis Armstrong playing with, 29
in “Hot Five,” 30
in Red Hot Peppers, 609
Osborn, Michael, 793
Osborne, Estelle Massey Riddle, 786
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Story Hour, 216
Otabenga, 641–643, 642
Othello
James Earl Jones in, 473, 474
Paul Robeson playing, 715–716
Otis, Johnny, 311
Otis Art Institute, 560
Ottley, Roi, 429
on Crystal Bird Fauset, 292
on Josephine Baker, 41
and Oliver W. Harrington, 376
Our Continent, Henry Ossawa Tanner’s illustrations in, 800
“Our Humanitarian Orthopaedic Opportunity” (White), 878
Our National Progress (newspaper), 219
Our Nig (Wilson), 901
Our Urban Poor: Promises to Keep and Miles to Go (Drake), 244
Our Women: Past, Present and Future (Brown), 109
“Our Women and What They Think” (column; A.J. Garvey), 328
Our World (magazine), 774
Outlet (magazine), 814
Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes (Brown), 118
Overton, Aida Reed, 886
Overton, Sadie, 212
Ovington, Mary White, 570
Owen, Chandler, 699
Owens, James Cleveland. See Owens, Jesse
Owens, Jesse, 643–645, 644
Carl Lewis’s victories matching, 527
Owens-West & Associates, 644
Oxford Companion to American Theatre, 575
Oxford English Dictionary, 136
Oxygen Media Inc., 906
P. E. Hopkins and Co., 412
Pace, Harry, 457
Pace Phonograph Company, 354
Pacific Appeal (newspaper), 70
Pacific Fur Company, 729
Packwood, Theodore, 714
Padmore, George, 329
“Pagan Survivals in Christianity” (Mays”), 571–572
Page, Oran “Hot Lips,” 276
Page, Ruth, 256
Page, Walter, 53
Count Basie playing with Blue Devils, 52
Page, Walter Hines, 161
Pagones, Steven A., 763
Paige, Satchel, 338, 647, 647–648
on Cool Papa Bell, 67
painters. See Art in Index of Subjects by Category or Area of Renown
Painter’s Mind, The: A Study of Structure and Space in Painting (Bearden and Holty), 61
Palladium of Liberty (newspaper), 325
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 105
Palmer, Earl, 536, 537
Palmer, George H., 538
Palmer, Henry, 889
Palmer, Roy, 28
Palmer, Wait, 333
Palmer Memorial Institute, 105–106, 475
Palms, 202, 420
Pan-African Congresses
Amy Ashwood Garvey at fifth, 327
London, 1900, 191
Paris, 1919
Charlotta Bass at, 56
John Hope at, 411
Rayford W. Logan leading member of, 540
Pan-Africanism, 540. See also Back-to-Africa movement
of Amy Ashwood Garvey, 327
influence on Meta Fuller, 319
of Paul Cuffe, 201
of Stokely Carmichael, 142
of UNIA, 326
of W. E. B. Du Bois, 201, 248–249
Pan-Africanist Council on African Affairs, 715
Pan African Liberation Committee, 725
Panama, Colin Powell and U.S. intervention in, 684
Panama Hattie (film), 413
Panama Trio, 596
Pan American Games, 593
Panjabi, Manohar M., 877
Panther and the Lash, The (Hughes), 422
Papanicolaou, George, 166
Papp, Joseph, 165
Paradise (Morrison), 605, 658
Paradise in Gazankulu (album), 66
Paradise Manor, 590
Paramount Records, 157, 446, 637, 662, 698
Pardon My Sarong (film), 257
Parham, Ernest, 444
Paris
Aaron Douglas in, 237
Augusta Savage in, 747
Beauford Delaney, 224
Chester Himes in, 404
Eartha Mae Kitt in, 505
Eugène Bullard, 124
owner of L’Escadrille, 125
Gordon Parks Jr. in, 652
Gordon Parks Sr. at Life (magazine) bureau, 654
Harold Amos’s work at Pasteur Institute, 22
Henry Ossawa Tanner in, 318, 800
James Baldwin in, 43
Josephine Baker in, 40
Le Grand Due
Bricktop at, 98
Eugène Bullard manager of, 124
Lil Armstrong in, 28
Loïs Mailou Jones in, 475
Meta Fuller at Salon d’Automne, 318, 319
Oliver W. Harrington in, 377
preferred destination for African American artists, 318
Quincy Jones in, 478
Rayford W. Logan in, 540
Richard Wright in, 917–918
Romare Bearden in, 61
William H. Johnson in, 466
Paris, Nancy, 302
“Paris Blues” (Ellington), 273
Park, Robert E., 451, 903
Parker, Charlie, 649, 649–651
Art Blakey’s association with, 83
and bebop, 340–341
Davis and, 213, 340–341
in Earl “Fatha” Hines’s band, 834
Thelonious Monk compared to, 602
Parker, Henry C., 665
Parker, Jay, 808
Parker, John J., 765
defeat of nomination to Supreme Court, 880
Parker, Maceo, 113
Parker, Maynard, 877
Parker, Melvin, 113
Parker, Theodore, 197
Parker, William, 93, 651–652
Thomas Bradley opposed to, 94
Parkman, Francis, 425
Parks, Gordon, Jr., 652–653
Parks, Gordon, Sr., 653–655
photograph of Duke Ellington, 271
photograph of Ella Watson, 653
Parks, Rosa, 172, 500, 655–657, 656, 723
Edgar D. Nixon friend of, 629
Moneta Sleet’s photographs of, 774
protégé of Ella Baker, 38
Parks, Suzan-Lori, 657–658
Girl 6 (film), 526
Parmar, Pratibha, 841
Parsons, Albert, 659
Parsons, Lucy, 659–660
Parsons, Richard Dean, 660–661
Partisan Review, 43, 48
Parton, Eddie, 552
Paschal, Denise, 782
Paschen, Friedrich, 431
Passing (Larsen), 515
passing for white, 34, 410
Belafonte family, 65
as film subject, 591, 639, 859
as literary subject, 161, 412, 515, 880
Luther Benjamin Askin, 34
Michael Healy, 387
Patrick Francis Healy, 388
Passion of Christ series (Bearden), 60
passports, denial of
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, 865
Ira De Augustine Reid, 707
Paul Robeson, 716
W. E. B. and Shirley Du Bois, 250
William Monroe Trotter, 820
Pastor’s Voice, The (Brooks), 103
Paterno, Joe, on Eddie Robinson, 719
Paterson, Frederick D., 615
Pathfinder Absalom Jones, The (Bragg), 95
“Pathology of Race Prejudice, The” (Frazier), 316
Patten, William, 491
Patterson, Audrey, 175
Patterson, Belknap, Webb, and Tyler, 660
Patterson, Floyd, 17, 535, 535, 727
Patterson, Haywood. See Scottsboro Boys
Patterson, Inez, 857
Patterson, John (Senator), 275
Patterson, John M. (Governor of Alabama), 724
Patterson, Mary Saunders, 23
Patterson, William, 208
Patti, Adelina, 477
Patton, Bertha Lee, 662
Patton, Charley, 661, 661–662
influence on
John Lee Hooker, 409
Muddy Waters, 860
Robert Johnson, 464
W. C. Handy, 372
Patton Boggs and Blow, 117
Paul, Benjamin, 787
Paul, Clarence, 907
Paul, Emma Lee Davis, 367
Paul, Nathaniel, 662–663
and Wilberforce, Canada, 787
Paul, Thomas, 662
Paul, Weiss, 186
Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 393
Paule Marshall and the New Generation Reading Series, 563
Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest, and Poet (Murray), 622
Pauling, Linus, 97
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet of His People (Brawley), 98
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School (Washington, DC). See also M Street High School
Charles Richard Drew at, 245
Edward Brooke at, 99
Eleanor Holmes Norton in last
segregated class at, 633
Elizabeth Catlett at, 151
faculty, 190, 540
Herman Russell Branson at, 96
Robert Clifton Weaver at, 862
Sterling Allen Brown at, 118
William Henry Hastie at, 381
William Montague Cobb at, 176
Paul Robeson (show), 474
Paul Robeson as Othello (sculpture; Barthé), 51
Pawnbroker (film; Lumet), 478
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 663–664, 826
accompanied by Theophilus Gould Steward, 788
Payne, John, 198
Payne, Sonny, 53
Payton, Lew, 773
Payton, Philip A., Jr., 664–665
Payton, Walter, 116, 665, 665–666
Peace and Freedom Party, 174
Peace Caravans of the Society of Friends, 244
Peace Corps
based on Operation Crossroads Africa, 723
Mae Jemison in, 449
Martin Puryear in, 690
training by Hildrus Poindexter, 677
Peace Halting the Ruthlessness of War (sculpture; Fuller), 319
Peace Information Center, 250
“Peace in the Valley,” 436
Peace Missions, 291
Peacock, Eulace, 643
Peale, Charles, 459
“Pearl Bailey Show, The,” 38
Pearl’s Kitchen (Bailey), 38
Pearson, Pauletta, 852
Peary, Josephine, 395
Peary, Robert, 395
Peck, David J., 182
Peculiar Sam: or, The Underground Railroad (Hopkins), 411
Pennell, Joseph, 800
Penney, Rob, 900
Penniman, Richard. See Little Richard
Pennington, James William Charles, 667–668
Pennsylvania. See also Philadelphia Abolition Society, 305