CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

 

INTRODUCTION

1. LLOYD L. BROWN

Black Fire in the Cold War

2. CHARLES WHITE

“Robeson with a Brush and Pencil”

3. ALICE CHILDRESS

Black, Red, and Feminist

4. WHEN GWENDOLYN BROOKS WORE RED

5. FRANK LONDON BROWN

The End of the Black Cultural Front and the Turn Toward Civil Rights

6. 1959

Spycraft and the Black Literary Left

EPILOGUE

The Example of Julian Mayfield

 

Notes

Works Cited

Index