Index

Abyssinia. See Ethiopia

Abyssinians, 41–42

Adams, Sherman, 145–46

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 41–56, 68

Africa, 29–30, 47, 74–75, 79, 147, 157; China as new colonialist in, 211n89; Great Britain in, 42–43, 55; Moscow assuming moral leadership in, 72; repatriation to, 19–22, 152–53, 172n49; white supremacy strengthened by, 92

African Americans. See specific topics

Africans, 6–7, 8, 18–19, 26, 91, 111; Asians conflated with, 30; Asiatic Black Man produced by, 30; Euro-Americans subjugating, 25

Afro-America, 126–27

Afro-Asian solidarity. See specific topics

Alabama, 14, 27, 43, 118, 137, 138–39; Tuskegee in, 143

Alejandrino, Jose, 28, 36

Alexander, Raymond Pace, 164–65

Alexandria, Louisiana, 127–29

Ali, Duse Mohammed, 46–47

Allah Temple of Islam, 12, 13, 49–50, 84

American Indians. See Native Americans

Americans. See Euro-Americans

American South. See Southern U.S.

Anglo-American-centered peace, 38–49

ANP. See Associated Negro Press

anti-Tokyo movement, 31–32

antiwar activists, 14–15

apartheid, 119–20, 151, 156–57, 159

Arizona, 73, 126–27, 129

Arkansas, 3, 9, 40, 62–63, 133

Army, U.S., 79, 83, 130, 135, 159, 198n60; Air Corps, 118, 136–41; Air Force, 143; Temple of Islam member joining, 102–3; War College, 131

Ashe, Charles, 99, 100

Asia, 9, 42, 47, 72, 75, 165; British in, 6–7, 55, 182n41; White, Walter, in, 157–58; white domination in, 51, 74; WWII in, 172n54

Asians, 9, 26, 29–30, 46, 73–74, 164–65; bias against, 39; California dominated by, 44; labor, 32; racial polarization influencing, 45; Tokyo toughening, 51; as white, 152. See also Asiatics; Filipinos; Japanese

Asia-Pacific region, 1, 30, 90–91. See also Pacific War

Asiatic Black Man, 36, 81, 84, 94, 102, 147; Africans producing, 30; Asians producing, 30; NOI popularizing, 48–50

Asiatics, 5–6, 9, 17, 18–19, 35, 58; Black Nationalists as, 94, 147; as citizens, 100; Japanese fighting for, 106; race, 49–50

Associated Negro Press (ANP), 55, 72, 74, 85–86, 90–91, 120; in France, 142–43; on Japanese, 160; overview of, 170n28; on pilots, 136; on Selfridge Field, 140; Tokyo striking, 151. See also Barnett, Claude A.

Australia, 38, 134–35, 156, 159

Axis propaganda, 122–23

Back-to-Africa Movement, 21–22, 41–42, 67–68

Baker, Josephine, 161–62

Baker, William, 59–60

Bamber Bridge, 141–42

Barnett, Claude A., 18, 58, 67, 69, 124, 130; Acheson telling, 150; on internment, 145

Barnett, Pearl. See Sherrod, Pearl

Bataan, 10, 167n7

Bates-Bey, Cash C., 81–82

Bayen, Malaku, 53, 68

Beijing, China, 94, 211n89, 212n94

Bennett, Robert L., 144, 155, 163, 203n15

Berlin, Germany, 14, 21, 37, 73, 90, 119; Tokyo influenced by, 38, 47–48, 93; Washington, D.C., outflanked by, 178n121

Biddle, Francis, 18, 122

Bilbo, Theodore, 19–22, 67, 79, 91–93, 102; on black races, 151; on California, 152; Coleman to, 177n105; Cooks to, 178n113; to Duncan, 177n100; Edgar to, 178n121; Garvey influencing, 178n114; Gordon telling, 74–75, 178n109, 192n87, 192n88; Gregory informing, 154–55; on Japanese, 193n1; Johnson, D., to, 192n87; Larremore pressing, 126–27; Lyn to, 178n114; McComb told about to, 106; Rose to, 192n87; Stewart to, 177n105; Wade writing to, 106–7; on white races, 151; white supremacy fought for by, 151–54

Birmingham, Alabama, 43, 138

Black Dragon Society, 7, 12–13, 57, 58, 76; colored people influenced by, 126; Japanese Americans trained by, 174n83

Black Nationalists, 153; as Africans, 18–19; Allah Temple of Islam as, 12, 13, 49–50, 84; as Asiatics, 18–19, 94, 147; China hostility of, 22, 186n51; Cooks as, 20, 97, 178n113; EPM as, 13, 53, 84, 85, 95–97; Ethiopia buoying, 53–56, 76; Fagen as harbinger of, 28; Japanese invoking rhetoric of, 6; overview of, 6–23; PME as, 76–80, 97, 100, 101–2, 172n49, 177n100; Wheaton as, 158–59. See also Asiatic Black Man; Garvey, Marcus; Gordon, Mittie Maude Lena; Malcolm X; Moorish Science Temple; Nation of Islam; Pacific Movement of the Eastern World; Universal Negro Improvement Association

Blakey, Art, 210n76

Blanton, Barry, 112–13

Blytheville, Arkansas, 62–63

Bogans, Gulan. See Mohammed, Elijah

Bombay, India, 156–57

Boraster, Ethelbert Anself, 3, 95, 98

Boston, Massachusetts, 29, 73

Branch, K. D., 108–9, 116

Brant, G. C., 137–38

Brazil, 46, 63, 110, 115; Japanese in, 8, 98, 199n7; Takis on, 98

Bridges, Styles, 145–46

Britain. See Great Britain

British, 37, 42–43, 80, 99, 141–42, 143; in Asia, 6–7, 55, 72, 182n41

British Canadians, 91

British Guiana, 56, 84

British India, 48

Brooklyn, 2–3, 97

Brown, Pink, 61–62

brown Americans, 130–46

brown Japanese, 130–46

Bryan, Leon S., 135–36

Buck, Frank, 118–19

Buddha, 48, 86

Buddhism, 70–71, 212n94

Bunche, Ralph, 160, 170n33

Burma, 8, 99, 143

Butler, Lee, 59–60, 63–64, 97, 108, 112–18, 119

Cairo, Illinois, 7, 98, 99–100, 106, 117, 138

California, 9, 31–32, 34–36, 44, 45, 46; anti-Tokyo bias of, 42–43; Bilbo on, 152; Butoku-Kai societies in, 174n83; Erwin visiting, 109; Filipinos in, 130; Hitler influencing, 207n21; Japanese Americans influencing, 87, 123–27, 145, 152, 207n21, 211n84; Krause lamenting, 152–53; Mexicans imported into, 124; Oakland in, 47. See also Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California

Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia, 132–33

Canadians, 86, 91

Caribbean, 13, 80

Centerville, Mississippi, 106–7, 198n60

Chicago, Illinois, 2, 12, 48–49, 100–106, 107, 169n21; Abyssinians arriving at, 41–42; Gordon as of, 20, 21, 67; Hughes, L., reminding, 14–15; Japanese in, 153–54, 210n79; journalist, 36; Muhammad sentenced in, 105; PMEW organized in, 58; as propaganda site, 47

Chiles, Nick, 35–36

China, 12, 22, 47, 135, 165, 186n51; as Africa’s new colonialist, 211n89; alliance with, 73; attitudes favoring, 74; Euro-Americans in, 71, 169n23; Japanese incursions into, 37, 42–43, 50–51, 52, 69, 73–74, 110, 191n50; lynching reacted to by, 71–72; Manchuria in, 11, 51; Pickens on, 61; Shanghai in, 43, 51, 71; Tokyo assaulting, 25; Washington, D.C.’s entente with, 94, 211n89, 212n94; Wheaton defecting to, 159; white soldiers invading, 145–46

Chinese, 26, 73–74, 75, 121–22, 126, 155; press mentioning, 186n51; racial prejudice overthrown by, 192n83; racism used by, 158–59

Chinese Americans, 73–74, 130

Chinese Students Club, 73–74

Christianity, 79–80, 83, 86, 206n8

Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 147–48

Civil War, U.S., 18, 25, 26, 89, 137; attorney general on, 44; South after, 141

Cleveland, Ohio, 16, 19–20, 36, 86

Cold War, 18, 149, 160

Colored American National Organization, 103–4

Columbia University, 1–2

Columbus, Ohio, 119–20

Communism, 145, 152–53

Communist Party (CP), 11, 12–14, 68–69, 73, 84, 119; China ruled by, 165; propaganda, 89

Communists, 6, 14, 22, 55, 160–61, 212n94; handbook, 62; propaganda, 158–59

Confederate States of America (CSA), 27–28

Constitution, U.S., 123–24

Cooks, Carlos, 20, 97, 178n113

Cox, Earnest Sevier, 67, 172n49

CP. See Communist Party

CRC. See Civil Rights Congress

CSA. See Confederate States of America

Davis, Frank Marshall, 91, 119, 164

Deep South, 35–36

De Guzman, Mimo. See Manansala, Policarpio; Takis, Ashima

Demena, 64–65

Detroit, Michigan, 12, 13, 48–50, 88–89, 108

The Development of Our Own (TDOO), 13, 50

Dies, Martin, 87–89

Diet, 44, 45

Dixie. See Southern U.S.

Dixie, Indiana, 8–9

Dixiecrats, 19–22, 27–28. See also Bilbo, Theodore

Dower, John, 5, 8–9, 172n54

draft dodgers, 3, 15, 95–111

Du Bois, W. E. B., 3–4, 30, 48, 69, 71, 149; in Indonesia, 150; Moscow attraction of, 156; on Russia, 191n50

Dunbar, Rudolph, 142–43

Dunson, T. C., 5–6

Eads Bridge, 8, 109, 112, 114

East Indians, 84, 86

East St. Louis, Illinois, 3, 4, 8, 9, 13, 59–66; Chanute Air Force Base influenced by, 138; FBI told in, 88–89; grand jury in, 112–18; Jackson spreading ripples to, 106; Pacific War influencing, 155; PMEW in, 97–99; St. Louis and, 107–11; Sikeston in vicinity of, 99–100; South America migrated to from, 199n7; trial in, 112–19

Edgar, Joseph, 21, 92, 178n121

England, 63, 72

EPM. See Ethiopia Pacific Movement

Erwin, David D., 59, 62–63, 64–65, 97, 108, 109; grand jury preceding trial of, 112–18; trial of, 119

Ethiopia, 11, 15–16, 41–56, 64, 66–67, 68; Black Nationalists buoyed by, 76; Huggins in, 70; Huks’ solidarity with, 157; Thompson on, 80

Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), 59, 67, 190n38

Ethiopia Pacific Movement (EPM), 13, 53, 84, 85, 95–97

Euro-Americans, 2–3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 17; Africans subjugated by, 25; Asia ouster of, 75; Browne on, 149; business competition eliminated by, 123; in China, 71, 169n23; colonialism, 50–51; evacuation caused by, 123; Fagen guarding, 28; on Japanese, 121, 165; on Japanese Americans, 207n21; lynching worries of, 168n15; military attacks of, 29; Philippines ouster of, 75; Plan of San Diego liquidating, 37; police officers, 41–42; race war motivating, 14; racial correlation of forces, concern of, 44; Shanghai disrupted by, 43; soldiers, 128–29; Southern standards conformed to by, 140; Tokyo spied for by, 87; working class, 64; WWII influencing, 103

Europe, 6, 11, 20, 109, 142–43, 211n87; alliance with, 65; atomic weapons dropped in, 161; invasion of, 37; starvation taking place in, 97

Europeans, 26, 29–30, 169n23, 172n54; colonialism, 6, 22, 42–43, 50–53, 76; religion designated by, 22

EWF. See Ethiopian World Federation

Fagen, David, 28, 157

Fair, Harrison, 108, 117

Far West, 39, 126–27

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 8, 12–13, 15, 89, 102–3, 114; BB Plan known about by, 96; Briggs-Bey noticed by, 97; Butler telling, 59, 108, 109; Holness arrested by, 95–96; internment orders given by, 125; KKK investigated by, 155; on MST, 82–83, 106; real estate dealer reported about to, 88

Filipinos, 10, 15, 27–29, 51, 88, 203n10; in California, 130; as colored races part, 36; Tillman reproving, 36; as Tokyo agents, 36, 132, 193n5. See also Manansala, Policarpio

Fletcher, T. Thomas Fortune, 27–28, 30, 46, 156–57, 182n42

Florida, 129, 139

Foreign Ministry (Japan), 4, 46

France, 72, 90, 127, 137, 142–43, 197n49

Freeman, Linn. See Karriem, Linn

“Fu Manchu” (fictional character), 12, 173n60

Garvey, Marcus, 4, 6, 15, 19–22, 38, 40; Bilbo influenced by, 178n114; Gordon influenced by, 66; PME as reminiscent of, 100

Garveyism, 41–56, 170n33

Georgia, 39, 73, 122, 130, 148, 160

Germans, 9, 87–88, 89–90, 132–33, 144, 201n39; agents, 38; Americans, 123; Nazis, 17–18, 119, 178n121, 203n14; propaganda, 128; unrest as due to, 38

Germany, 5, 47–48, 78–79, 119, 145, 213n96. See also Berlin, Germany

Gordon, Mittie Maude Lena, 19, 20, 21, 53, 66–67, 99; Bilbo told by, 74–75, 92, 178n109, 192n87, 192n88; Cox on, 172n49; Jim Crow influencing, 106; on resettlement, 173n61; Tokyo funding, 78–79, 101, 106; trial stood by, 100–102, 105–6

Granger, Lester, 9, 137, 156

Gray, Wolcie, 115–16

Great Britain, 42–43, 48, 55, 90–91. See also London, England

Great Depression, 20, 71, 172n49

Gregory, Edwin, 154–55

Guiana, 56, 84

Haiti, 2, 50–51, 173n60

Hancock, Gordon, 72–73, 90, 91, 94–95, 134; on atom bomb, 144–45; on Japanese, 121

Harlem, 2, 3, 40, 53–54; Addis Ababa and, 41–56; Bilbo support in, 20–21, 22; congressman of, 122; EPM’s meetings in, 85; Holness arrested in, 95–96; migrants to, 84; NOI marching in, 148; PME in, 79–80; press, 142; race riot in, 108; Tokyo and, 41–56

Harlem Bard. See Hughes, Langston

Harlem Mikado. See Jordan, Robert

Hart, Stokley Delmar, 104, 197n47

Hawaii, 26–27, 42–43, 65, 88, 128–29, 164; Butoku-Kai societies in, 174n83; Pearl Harbor in, 2–3, 90, 107, 108, 164, 199n7; Pickens bedazzled by, 51–52. See also Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Hayakawa, S. I., 162, 210n79

Heart, S. D. See Hart, Stokley Delmar

Henry, Milton, 140–41

Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Tanaka), 172n54

Hideki Tojo, 83, 103–4, 182n41

Hill, Herbert, 122–23, 124

Hiroshima, Japan, 14, 144–45, 174n78

Hitler, Adolf, 21, 119, 130, 132; California influenced by, 207n21; Dunbar using stationery of, 143; Hart on, 197n47; Jim Crow studied by, 178n121; Negroes would benefit from, 103–4; PME on, 100–101

Holness, Lester Eugene, 95–96

Honolulu, Hawaii, 42–43, 52, 164

Hoover, J. Edgar, 12, 102

Huff, L. B., 109–10

Huggins, Willis N., 69–70

Hughes, Langston, 14–15, 68–69, 144

Huks, 156, 157

Illinois, 7, 62, 98, 106, 138; Huff in, 109–10; Mounds in, 109–11, 115. See also Cairo, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; East St. Louis, Illinois

Immigration Act, 45, 110, 164

India, 11–12, 47, 48, 55, 101, 135; colored citizens emulating, 98; England fearing, 72; Fletcher in, 156–57; McMillan in, 170n33; Nazis driving to, 119; South influenced by, 150. See also New Delhi, India

Indiana, 8–9, 30–31, 32–33, 47, 67

Indians, 15, 135, 157. See also Native Americans

Indonesia, 48, 150

Islam, 29, 48; Ahmadiyya as sect of, 110; as Christianity’s alternative, 86; movement in Detroit, 81, 82, 83–84. See also Muslims; Nation of Islam

Italy, 11, 14, 42, 49, 72–73, 80

Ito Hirobumi, 42–43

Jackson, Mississippi, 8, 53, 106, 129

Jamaica, 40, 84

Japanese, 75, 100, 167n7, 168n15, 169n18, 181n35; agents, 85, 88, 100, 113; air force, 52; alliance with, 163–65; ANP on, 160; Army, 1, 33, 50–51, 54–55; as Asia’s masters, 72; Asiatics fought for by, 106; attorney general on, 44; Bilbo on, 193n1; Black Nationalist rhetoric invoked by, 6; bombardment, 35, 61–62, 81–82, 114; in Brazil, 8, 98, 115, 199n7; as brown, 130–46; Buck on, 118–19; captains, 4–5, 87; in Chicago, 153–54, 210n79; China incursions of, 37, 42–43, 50–51, 52, 69, 73–74, 110, 191n50; colonialism, 33, 42–43; colored people and, 34, 36, 50–51, 106–7, 211n89; colored races belonging of, 124–25; deportation of, 153; diplomats, 26, 43, 46, 47, 67–68; emissary, 37; as Ethiopians, 76; Euro-Americans on, 121, 165; Europeans persecuted by, 172n54; evacuation, 176n90, 201n39; Filipinos’ axis with, 28–29; government, 1–2; Hancock on, 121; in Hawaii, 88; Hitler hooking up with, 21; hotels, 5; Imperial Consul, 34; intellectuals, 45–46, 162; invasion, 83, 102–3, 112, 114, 116, 117, 149, 155; Jim Crow flouted by, 73; journalists and, 4, 45, 151; during Korea, 158–59; League of Nations influencing, 195n45; London and, 83–84; in Los Angeles, 70, 162, 174n83; Manila occupied by, 131–32; Marines collecting teeth of, 136; McDowell hailing, 42; migrants, 63; military, 1, 6–7, 110; nation, 35; Navy, 110; Nazis turning on, 119; Negrito tinge of, 35; at Olympics, 70; opera, 34; Philippines dominated by, 44, 203n10; photographer, 117; PME allied with, 79; at PMEW meeting, 61; Powell denouncing, 161; problem, 44; propaganda, 82, 98–99, 133; question, 36, 39; race hatred of, 104–5, 122; racialism forgotten by, 165; racial violence responsibility of, 198n60; Robb on, 197n49; sailors, 88; St. Louis contact, 109; in San Francisco, 161–62; scare, 35; segregation of, 32; ships, 4–5, 52, 87, 98; in Sikeston, 113; snipers, 3; soldier, 206n70; on South, 36, 161; South Africa conquered by, 91; speakers, 47; sterilizing of, 189n13; students, 47; submarines, 9; Taylor encountering, 25–26; textile exporters, 75; Tokyo meeting of, 36; Washington, B., received by, 34; in Washington, D.C., 34, 37, 176n97; white people persecuted by, 172n54, 213n96; workers, 32–33, 34; as yellow Negro, 39

Japanese Americans, 17, 147, 161–62, 164, 201n39, 210n79; Black Dragon Society training, 174n83; California influenced by, 44, 87, 123–27, 145, 152, 207n21, 211n84; as citizens, 14, 38, 123–24; colored people and, 145; deportation of, 123–24; espionage, 87–89; Euro-Americans on, 207n21; internment of, 112–29, 145; Jim Crow flouted by, 87, 211n84; in Los Angeles, 207n21; migrants, 26–27; segregation of, 31–32; on South, 152; students, 31–32

Japanese and Korean Expulsion League, 34–35

Japanese Consul, 58, 69

Japanese-Negro Front organizations, 84–87

Japanese tea, 34

Jews, 19, 67, 72, 95, 144, 151; Brewer on, 153; Israel fought for by, 157; Nazis influencing, 178n121; Selective Service bias toward, 168n14; as soldiers, 154–55; South dominated by, 177n105; Watkins on, 152

Jim Crow, 4–5, 11–12, 37, 158–59; alliance influenced by, 164; Army, U.S., insisting on, 135; Asians upholding, 73–74, 164; Bilbo as prime minister of, 19–22; CRC struggling against, 147–48; eroding of, 17–18, 22–23, 125, 131, 147, 150–51, 156–57; Gordon influenced by, 106; Hawaii influenced by, 164; Hitler studying, 178n121; imperialism combined with, 75; Japanese Americans flouting, 87, 211n84; Japanese flouting, 73; in Manila, 131–32; marines influenced by, 163; national security jeopardized by, 106–7, 131–46; sedition caused by, 94–95; Squadron, 137; Tokyo influenced by, 90; Virginia, 127, 132–33; war influenced by, 89–91, 93, 132–46; Washington, D.C., moving away from, 150; white supremacy influenced by, 107

Johnson, George, 78, 79, 81

Johnson-Bey, R., 78, 79

Jones, Seon Emmanuel, 101–2

Jordan, Robert, 13, 15, 84, 85, 96

Jun Fujita, 169n21

Kansas City, Missouri, 3, 131–32

Karriem, Linn, 102–3

Kathrada, Ahmed, 6–7

Kirkman-Bey, Charles, 81–82

KKK. See Ku Klux Klan

Knight Commander of the Distinguished Order of Ethiopia, 4

Konoe Fumimaro, 38–39

Korea, 29–30, 150, 157–60, 163

Kotane, Moses, 170n33

Krause, Charles, 152–53

Kubie, Lawrence, 139–40

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 20, 90, 155, 158–59

Larremore, John, 126–27

League of Nations, 39, 54, 195n45

Lee, Wallace, 120–21

Liberia, 50–51, 53, 66–68, 101, 178n113, 192n88

Little, Malcolm. See Malcolm X

Little Dixie, 62–63

Little Tokyo, 124, 125

London, England, 22, 32, 37, 46–47, 55, 63; Dunbar in, 143; groveling of, 72; Japanese and, 83–84; Sullivan in, 55; Tokyo as seen by, 182n41; war debts desire of, 127; West Indians with grievances against, 86

Long Beach, California, 123–24

Los Angeles, California, 90, 124–26, 151–52; Japanese Americans in, 207n21; Japanese in, 70, 162, 174n83; radio station, 76

Louisiana, 127–29, 141; New Orleans in, 3, 6, 95, 98

Low Countries, 87–88

Lubby, Charles. See Newby, Charles

Madagascar, 91, 119–20

Malaya, 8, 169n23

Malcolm X, 1, 15, 19, 79, 84, 147–49; NOI importance of, 149; Tokyo relationship continued by, 150–51

Manansala, Policarpio, 57–62, 64–65, 79, 83, 98. See also Takis, Ashima

Manchuria, 11, 51

Manhattan, 1, 147

Manila, Philippines, 27–28, 35, 131–32, 155–56, 203n10

Maoism, 94, 195n1, 211n89

Marines, U.S., 133, 136, 163

Mart, Frank, 61, 117

Massachusetts, 29, 73

Mays, Artie, 60–61

McCoy, Ollie, 63–64

McMillan, James B., 170n33

Mexicans, 50–51, 117, 124

Mexico, 34–35, 37, 126–27, 137; Erwin visiting, 63, 109; Tokyo signing treaty with, 182n53

Miami Beach, Florida, 129

Michigan, 12, 13, 48–50, 88–89, 108, 140–41

Miller, Henry, 141–42

Mississippi, 3, 8, 9–10, 23, 53, 130; Centerville in, 106–7, 198n60; congressman of, 76; PMEW membership of, 63; senator from, 162. See also Bilbo, Theodore; Jackson, Mississippi

Mississippi River, 9–10, 92–93, 95, 109

Missouri, 3, 62, 98, 99–100, 131–32; Sikeston in, 112–13. See also St. Louis, Missouri

Mohammed, Elijah, 49, 105–6

Monrovia, Liberia, 67–68

Moore, Arthur J., 71–72

Moorish Science Temple (MST), 12, 78, 79, 81–83, 86, 97; FBI on, 106; NOI compared with, 149

Moors, 2, 81

Moros, 29, 51

Moscow, Russia, 14, 21, 22, 47, 128, 156; alliance with, 104–5; atom bomb acquired by, 144–45; Cold War with, 149; Tokyo clashing with, 72, 149; white supremacy threatened by, 145

Moses, 42, 102

Moten, Etta, 124–25

Mounds, Illinois, 109–11, 115

MST. See Moorish Science Temple

Muhammad, Elijah, 102, 105, 147, 148

Muslims, 3, 15, 48–50, 80, 85, 95. See also Nation of Islam

NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Nagasaki, Japan, 14, 46, 144–45, 149–50

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1–2, 15, 16, 74, 105, 211n89; in Alabama, 118, 137; Boraster information of, 95; Chicago told about to, 107; Halsey berated by, 90; internment influencing, 122–23, 125; on Korea, 158; propaganda, 152–53; segregation protested by, 137; Smythe, H., reporting to, 160. See also Pickens, William; White, Walter

National Urban League, 9, 137, 156

Nation of Islam (NOI), 14, 48–50, 81, 84, 94, 105–6; Malcolm X’s importance to, 149; MST compared with, 149; Oliver on, 147; overview of, 147–48; whites focused on by, 148. See also Malcolm X

Native Americans, 12, 26, 32, 35, 130

Navy, U.S., 117, 130, 189n24

Nazis, 9, 17–18, 90, 119, 178n121, 203n14

Nazism, 89–90

Negro Question, 91, 107

Newby, Charles, 103–4, 106

New Delhi, India, 146, 156–57, 212n94

New Orleans, Louisiana, 3, 6, 95, 98

New York, 20, 52, 85

New York City, New York, 1, 2–3, 19, 20, 53, 55; Bilbo speaking in, 67; De Guzman working in, 58; EPM detained in, 95–97. See also Harlem

Nicaraguan bandits, 50–51

NOI. See Nation of Islam

non-Europeans, 7, 156–57

North America, 15, 17, 29

North Carolina, 16, 19, 54, 73, 75, 149

North Korea, 158–59

Officer, William, 65–66

Ohio, 119–20; Cleveland in, 16, 19–20, 36, 86

Oliver, Revilo, 49, 147

Pacific Movement of the Eastern World (PMEW), 12–16, 83, 84, 97–99, 112; Blanton on, 113; fire responsibility of, 117; Garvey reminiscence of, 100; military of, 108–11; trial of, 113–19; in U.S. v. Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, 7, 57–66

“Pacific Problem,” 5

Pacific War, 8–10, 14–23, 100, 120–22; brown Americans fighting, 130–46; brown Japanese fighting, 130–46; colored races benefiting from, 103–7, 111; overview of, 130–46; PMEW looking askance at, 112; racial policies influenced by, 148–57; Washington, D.C.’s, attention on, 150; white supremacists seeing, 91–93

Palestine, 19, 67

Pan-Asianism, 27, 32, 45, 48

Paris, France, 72, 90, 127

Peace Movement of Ethiopia (PME), 76–80, 97, 100, 101–2, 172n49, 177n100. See also Gordon, Mittie Maude Lena

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 2–3, 90, 107, 108, 164, 199n7

Pennsylvania, 25, 29

Philippines, 10, 27–29, 32, 35, 51, 131–32; Euro-Americans ousted from, 75; hysteria in, 157; Japanese dominating in, 44, 203n10; Manila in, 155–56, 203n10; Pan-Oriental Society formed in, 36; Wade in, 107; Washington, D.C., collaborated against by, 155–56, 157; White visiting, 90

Pickens, William, 11, 19, 50–51, 53–54, 61, 98; Du Bois echoing, 69; on Ethiopians, 76; Tobias and, 71; Tokyo defended by, 72

Pitchfork. See Tillman, Ben

PME. See Peace Movement of Ethiopia

PMEW. See Pacific Movement of the Eastern World

Poole, Elijah, 49, 105–6

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 15, 122, 161, 163

pro-Moscow Negroes, 72–73, 148, 149

pro-Tokyo Negroes: Cairo, Illinois, as bastion of, 7, 98, 99–100, 106, 117, 138; conviction of, 94–111; Eads Bridge blown up by, 8, 109, 112, 114; Hancock on, 94–95; imprisonment of, 94–111; Jordan as leader of, 13, 15, 84, 85, 96; Officer collaborating with, 66; overview of, 1–23; PME as, 76–80, 97, 100, 101–2, 172n49, 177n100; pro-Moscow Negroes excoriating, 148; Sampson aiding, 158. See also East St. Louis, Illinois; Gordon, Mittie Maude Lena; Moorish Science Temple

Prudence Crandall Association, 33–34

Randolph, A. Philip, 78, 160–61

Reddick, L. D., 55, 130–31

Ressoull, Mohammed. See Mohammed, Elijah

Rising Sun, 16, 22

Robb, Frederick Harold, 105, 197n49

Robeson, Paul, 69, 147, 149, 150, 151, 156

Rome, Italy, 14, 73

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 72, 88, 136

Russia, 4, 30–31, 32, 45, 58, 119; Communistic ideology of, 145; Du Bois on, 191n50; Indian youth in, 157

Sampson, Edith, 105, 158, 198n51

San Angelo, Texas, 137–38

San Antonio, Texas, 33, 122

San Diego, California, 34–35, 124

San Francisco, California, 31–32, 35, 58, 65, 84, 88; Japanese in, 161–62; Peace Conference, 160

Satokata Takahashi, 16, 50, 81–82, 86

Schuyler, George, 69, 123, 144

Scottsboro case, 58, 147–48

Seattle, Washington, 33, 34, 87, 101

Selective Service, 1, 168n14

Selfridge Field, 140–41

Shanghai, China, 43, 51, 71

Shantung, China, 42–43

Sherrod, Pearl, 13, 50

Shimjiro Akimota, 67–68

Sikeston, Missouri, 99–100, 112–13

Singapore, 5–7, 93, 96, 108, 119, 143

Smith, Theodore, 176n90

Smuts, Jan, 7, 91, 119–20

Smythe, Hugh, 160–61, 165

Smythe, Mabel Murphy, 160, 165

South Africa, 6–7, 10, 45, 56, 91, 119–20; atomic bomb influencing, 174n78; Bunche visiting, 170n33; Garveyite encountered in, 170n33; Washington, D.C., using, 171n35. See also apartheid

South America, 63, 110, 199n7

South Carolina, 35–36, 140

Southern U.S. (the South), 1, 8–10, 18, 23, 25, 28; agents in, 85–86; air training in, 136–41; California influenced by, 32; after Civil War, 141; Deep, 35–36; Euro-Americans conforming to standards of, 140; Far West mirroring, 39; food served in, 132–33; Hawaii hostility of, 164; India influencing, 150; Japanese Americans on, 152; Japanese on, 36, 161; Jews dominating, 177n105; law enforcement agents in, 83; Negro Question influencing, 91, 107; passive resistance adapted in, 11–12; petitioners as from, 48; Philippines as knowing, 27; soldiers in, 127–29; Wright, R., in, 174n77

South Seas, 134–35

Soviet Union, 149, 212n94; Saint Petersburg in, 30–31. See also Moscow, Russia

Spain, 27, 157

Spaulding, Norman, 99, 100

Sproul, Robert, 89–90

Stalin, Josef, 119, 121

Standifier, Roscoe, 117–18

Star Order of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Missionaries to Abyssinia, 41–42

Steiner, Belle, 74–75

Stewart, J. R., 19–20, 177n105

Stimson, Henry, 50–51

St. Louis, Missouri, 8, 12, 20, 55, 98–99, 107–11; Original Independent Benevolent Afro-Pacific Movement of the World in, 62; PMEW in, 58, 59. See also East St. Louis, Illinois

Stoner, J. B., 151–52

St. Petersburg, Russia, 30–31

Strong, George V., 128–29

Sugita Teiichi, 45–46

Takahashi (consul), 58, 65, 81, 110

Takeda (doctor), 63, 64

Takis, Ashima, 58, 97, 98, 109–11, 113; Erwin knowing, 115; Spanish taught by, 108

Taylor, Bayard, 25–26

TDOO. See The Development of Our Own

Temple of Islam, 83, 100, 102–3

Texas, 32–33, 34, 37, 122, 137–38

Thomas, Norman, 160–61

Thornhill, James, 13, 21, 79–80, 96–97

369th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, 128–29

Tillman, Ben, 35–36

Tokyo, Japan, 13, 15, 16, 41–56, 154, 207n15; agents, 86, 98, 177n100; alienation used by, 99; alliances united by, 60, 88, 95, 121, 150; ANP struck by, 151; apartheid influenced by, 119–20; atomic bombing influencing, 150–51; Berlin influencing, 93; bombing of, 59, 103; Briggs-Bey leaving for, 97; China assaulted by, 25; Deep South’s nervousness about, 35–36; Euro-Americans spying for, 87; Filipinos as agents of, 27–28, 36, 132, 193n5; Fraser on, 182n53; Gordon funded by, 78–79, 101, 106; gospel group received by, 39; Immigration Act protested by, 164; Islamic onslaught engineered by, 82, 83–84; Japanese meeting in, 36; Jim Crow influencing, 90; London seeing, 182n41; lynching outrage in, 39–40, 99–100, 189n24; Malcolm X continuing relationship of, 150–51; Mexico City signing treaty with, 182n53; middle class as susceptible to, 33–34; militancy of, 30; Moscow clashing with, 72, 149; movement against, 31–32; Pickens defending, 72; propaganda appeals of, 130–31, 133, 137, 141, 143; race war proclaimed by, 159; racial equality disappointment of, 38–39, 74, 90, 195n45, 202n6; racism used by, 46, 88–90, 93, 133, 135, 137, 150–51, 158–59, 203n10; revolt aiding, 107–11; San Francisco influenced by, 88; segregation exploited by, 129; segregationists’ sympathy for, 21; soldiers landed by, 34–35, 112; Takahashi transmitting for, 110; Thomas, J., on, 174n83; Washington, D.C.’s, relations with, 23, 26–27, 128, 211n89, 212n94; white supremacy battered by, 22–23, 31, 72, 119

Tokyo Rose, 133, 203n15

Toshiko Akiyoshi, 162, 210n76

Travis, Dempsey, 2, 103

Truman, Harry, 156–57

Turkey, 40, 48

Tuskegee, Alabama, 118, 137, 138–39, 143

Tuskegee Airmen, 138–39, 141

Umeshiro Suzuki, 43–44

UN. See United Nations

UNIA. See Universal Negro Improvement Association

United Nations (UN), 22, 150, 157–58

Universal Holy Temple of Tranquility, 70–71

Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 13, 15, 19, 56, 84, 86; Advance Division, 20; formation of, 40; motto of, 58; overview of, 41–48; PMEW influenced by, 58–59, 110

University of Tokyo, 65, 70

U.S. v. Pacific Movement of the Eastern World, 7, 57–66

Versailles peace conference, 15, 38, 45, 74, 90

Virginia, 21, 106, 122, 127, 132–33

Wade, Charles W., 106–7

Washington, 57, 88, 207n21. See also Seattle, Washington

Washington, Booker T., 3–4, 30, 34, 38, 40

Washington, D.C., 6–7, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22; Berlin outflanking, 178n121; China’s entente with, 94, 211n89, 212n94; colored races as above, 108; darker races at odds with, 135; Dixiecrats dispatched by, 27–28; hysteria gripping, 119; International Military Criminal Tribunal for the Far East influenced by, 154; internment influencing, 112; Japanese in, 34, 37, 176n97; Jim Crow moved away from by, 150; journalists embarrassing, 133–36; military policies installed by, 130–31; national security influenced by, 37–39; Pacific War attention of, 120–22, 150; Philippines collaborating against, 155–56, 157; race war warning to, 45; racial equality as seen by, 38; South Africa used by, 171n35; Soviet Union owed by, 149; suicide pact in, 99; Takis confirming fears of, 110; Tokyo’s relations with, 23, 26–27, 56, 128, 211n89, 212n94; war influencing, 32; white supremacy maintained by, 131, 144–46, 178n121

Waters, Enoch, 133–34

Watkins, Thomas Albert, 60, 116

Watson, George, 132–33

West Africa, 74–75

West Coast (US), 9, 12, 17, 33, 153–54, 174n83; anti-Asian bias in, 39; concentration camps, 14; hysteria, 127; race haters influencing, 122

Western Europe, 142–43

West Indians, 15, 83–84, 86

Weston, Randy, 2–3

Wheaton, Louis, 158–59

White, Walter, 1–2, 15, 89–90, 122, 130, 157–58; on Australia, 134–35; on integration, 159; in Philippines, 132

White Peril, 14, 35, 54

“Why I Fight Racism” (Baker), 161–62

Wiley, Bell, 128–29

Wilkins, Roy, 158, 201n39

Williams, Finis, 113–14

Williams, John Sharp, 37–38

World War I (WWI), 2, 15, 18, 37–39, 47–48, 91

World War II (WWII), 1–3, 5–10, 38, 103, 172n54; racial violence during, 198n60; Tokyo in prelude to, 48. See also Pacific War

Wright, Richard, 14, 89, 174n77

WWI. See World War I

WWII. See World War II

Yasuichi Hikida, 1–2, 11

Yellow Peril, 14, 16, 35, 55, 93; Fu Manchu as character of, 12, 173n60; overview of, 119–22

Yicklung, W., 63, 64–65

Yokohama, Japan, 42, 154–55