Aaron, Daniel, 91, 167
Abbott, Berenice, 277
Adamic, Louis, 350
Africa, x, 82, 155, 181, 248, 251, 327
Africa: A Journal of African Affairs, 327–28
African art, 239, 305
African Blood Brotherhood, 106–109, 142–43, 175–78, 184, 402
Africans, 1, 4, 38, 54, 109, 113, 350
Afro-Americans, 56–57, 63–69, 71–73, 84, 97–107, 172, 178–81, 185–89, 197–98, 210–12, 213–15, 217–18, 225, 238–48, 252, 255, 257–58, 260–63, 266, 283–84, 286–87, 291–369
“The Agricultural Show” (story), 19, 271–72
“America” (poem), 153, 165
Amsterdam News (New York), 106, 247, 258, 291, 323–24, 331, 334, 337–38, 340
Andreyev, Leonid, 156
Antar, 250
Anti-Semitism, 310, 344
“The Apple-Woman’s Complaint” (poem), 42–43
Ashleigh, Charles, 150, 172, 193, 227, 398
Author’s Club of the Carnegie Fund, 339
Baker, Moses, 5–6
Balabinov, Angelica, 365
Baldwin, James, 82
“Bambara” (proposed magazine), 300
Banana Bottom, 274–90
Walter Jekyll portrayed in, 32–33
mentioned, 10, 59, 379, 381
Banjo, 235–63
and police troubles, 270
French translation, 274
impact on black French writers, x, 258–59, 290
mentioned, 266–67, 269, 271–72, 282, 289, 293, 297, 362
Barber, John, 92, 148, 199–200
Beach, Sylvia, 214, 377
Bearden, Romare, 338, 349
Becker, Maurice, 92, 148
Bennett, Gwendolyn, 326
Bennett, Josephine, 210
Bennett, Louise, 27, 43, 58
“Bennie’s Departure” (poem), 46
“Birthright” (article), 167
Blackbirds, cast of, 260, 262, 264
“The Black Man” (poem), 182
Black power, 346
Boardman, Helen, 323–24
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 183
Boissevain, Eugen, 139, 145–47, 193, 210
Bolshevik Revolution, 97, 111, 136–37, 192 195
Bone, Robert, 271–72, 282
Boni and Liveright, 217, 225
Bontemps, Arna, 348–51
Bookman, 225
Book-of-the-Month Club, 340
Bourne, Randolph, 81, 83
Bowles, Paul, 277–79
“Boyhood in Jamaica” (article), 378
Boyle, Ernest, 23, 30
Brace, Donald, 297
Bradley, Jenny Serreyr, 232, 266
Bradley, William Aspenwall, 232–38, 248–49, 251, 260, 265–70, 274–75, 278, 286, 297, 333
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 77–80, 117, 119, 139, 225, 248, 388
Brawley, Benjamin, 198, 210, 339
Briggs, Cyril, 106, 142–43, 175–77, 402
British intelligence, 196–97, 270, 278–79, 285
British Socialist Party (BSP), 111
Britton, Betty, 363, 422
Broun, Hey wood, 169, 360
Browder, Earl, 167, 329
Brown, Earl, 326, 338, 419
Browning, Robert, 28, 45
Bryant, Louise.See Bullitt, Louise Bryant
Budgen, Francine, 130–31
Budgen, Frank, 130–31, 207
“Bull Frog” (con man), 227–28
Bullitt, Louise Bryant, 209–11, 228-
29, 231, 236, 265
Burke, Selma, 305–306, 310–11, 338
Cambridge Magazine, 118, 119
Campbell, Darrell, 296, 297
Campbell, Grace, 142, 150, 158, 210
Camp Greycourt, 301–304, 306
Cane, 159, 166
“The Capitalist at Dinner” (poem), 102
Carpenter, Edward, 28, 30–31
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 277
Catholic Worker, 360
Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 365, 366
Cesaire, Aimé, x, 215, 259, 290
Challenge, 338
Chamberlain, John R., 245–46, 339
Chaplin, Charlie, 138–39
Chauve Souris, 156
Chicago Defender, 245
Chicago riot (1919), 98
“Christmas in de Air” (poem), 48
Chukovsky, Korney, 183
“Circular Letter for Negro Authors’
Guild,” 326
Citizens’ League for Fair Play, 310
“Clarendon Hills, Farewell” (poem), 61
Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, 2, 4, 7, 11, 15, 19, 20, 22, 27, 49, 58, 377
Cold War, 367
Colored Soldiers’ Club (London), 109
“Color Scheme,” 193–222, 223, 224, 232, 234, 236, 240, 247
Comintern. See Third Communist International
Communist Party (British Section, Third International) [CP(BSTI)], 119, 121, 125, 126, 129
Communist Party of America: and Afro-Americans, 176, 293–94
divided, 173
mentioned, 143, 167, 184, 186, 298, 315, 329, 338, 345, 362
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), 115, 121, 129, 171
Communists: American, 154, 171, 175, 306, 357
and interracial marriage, 343–44
British, 172, 175
French, 332
in Harlem, 309, 342
Indian, 194
on FWP in NYC), 322–23, 331–32
mentioned, 302, 330, 345, 360, 365, 366
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 336
Constab Ballads, 35–36, 44, 47, 58, 385
Cowl, Carl, 365, 368, 391
Crisis, 109, 150, 195, 196, 214, 239, 243, 325
Crosswaith, Frank, 336
Crusader, 106, 142
Cruse, Harold, 344
“Cudjoe Fresh from de Lecture” (poem), 37–38
Cullen, Countee, 166, 215, 238, 240, 261, 264, 295, 326, 327–28, 338, 355, 356
Cullen, Ida, 355
Cummings, E. E., 138
Cunard, Nancy, 283
Cundhall, Frank, 55
“Cycle Manuscript” (poems), 364
Damas, Leon, 259, 290
Davis, Elmer, 354
Davis, Henrietta Vinton, 56
Davis, Stuart, 92
Day, Dorothy, 138, 360, 363, 364, 423
Debs, Eugene V, 68
de Heuck, Catherine, 352–53, 358
Dehn, Adolf, 149–50
De Leon, Daniel, 111–12, 142
DeLisser, H. G., 41, 55, 57
Dell, Floyd, 77, 135, 136, 137, 159
“The Desolate City” (poem), 200
Dewey, John, 350, 365
Dickens, Charles, 14, 48
Dies Committee, 351
“Discontent on the Lower Deck” (article), 123
Dixon, Thomas, 245, 362
“The Dominant White” (poem), 92
Domingo, W. A., 104, 106, 107, 142
Dover, Cedric, 328, 364
Draper, Theodore, 179–80
“A Dream” (poem), 45–46
Du Bois, W. E. B., 68, 82, 141, 142, 145, 169, 181, 195, 196, 234, 239, 244, 325–26, 343
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 164
Duncan, Isadora, 182
Duranty, Walter, 182
Dutton, E. P, 340
“East Indian-West Indian” (proposed book), 364, 378
Eastman, Crystal, 92, 99, 121, 134, 135, 139, 147, 150, 169–70, 172, 238
Eastman, Eliena Krylenko, 218, 224, 246, 266, 279–80, 286, 311
Eastman, Max: aids McKay, 284–85
and Harlem socialists, 143
and Liberator, 92, 136, 157–58, 161–63, 189–91
at Cap d’Antibes, 224
at Fourth Congress, 177
compared with McKay, 95–96
described, 92–96
in New Jersey, 146–47
influence on McKay’s poetry, 153–54
objects to McKay’s conversion, 360
on A Long Way from Home, 314–15
on McKay, 96, 103, 147–48
mentioned, 77, 99, 134–35, 137, 138, 139, 150, 167, 175, 191, 218–20, 226, 246, 265–67, 269, 271, 274, 278, 279–81, 286–89, 291, 296, 297, 298, 300, 301, 302, 304, 311, 354, 356–57, 359, 363, 366–68, 390, 419
Ellison, Ralph, 82, 338
Emancipator, 107
Embree, Edwin R., 300, 307, 311, 318-
19, 339, 340, 344, 356, 359
Epistle, 364
Euro-Americans, and Negro neurosis, 188
fear black sexuality, 187–88
“An Evening with Present Day Jamaican Writers” (article), 57
“Exhortation” (poem), 133
Fanon, Franz, x, 333
Farrar, John C., 169, 248
Father Divine, 308, 310, 312, 334, 342, 347–48
Fauset, Jessie, 141, 169, 214, 239, 248, 326
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 355, 357
Federal Writers’ Project, New York City (FWP), xi, 311, 322–23, 326, 331, 338–40, 351, 362
Fisher, Rudolph, 166, 239, 276
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 246
“Flame-Heart” (poem), 132–33
“Flat-Foot Drill” (poem), 40
“For a Negro Magazine” (circular letter), 299–300
Ford, Charles Henri, 277
Fourth Congress, Third Communist International, 169, 171–74, 179–86, 194–95
Franco, Francisco, 329, 333
Frank, Waldo, 81, 84, 330
Freeman, Joseph, 94, 136, 137, 148, 160–61, 167–68
French colonialism, 214, 270, 278
Freytag-Loringhoven, Baroness von, 138, 197
Friendship Houses, 351–53, 356, 358, 366
Furman, Lee, 311, 314, 338
Gallacher, William, 111
Gannett, Lewis, 339
Garden of Allah, 226
Gardner, Aston W., 49
Garland Fund, 211, 216, 217, 223, 405
Garvey, Marcus Aurelius, 104–107, 109, 142–43, 155, 198, 310, 328, 342
Gellert, Hugo, 156
Gingertown: poor sales of, 275
reviews of, 275–76
mentioned, 274, 281, 284
Gold, Michael, 136, 159, 160–64, 167
Gordon, George William, 3, 53–54
“Gordon to the Oppressed Natives” (poem), 53–54
Granich, Irwin. See Gold, Michael
“The Grays,” 107–108, 116, 126
Great Depression, 267, 275, 280, 288, 347
Greenwich Village, 89, 133, 138, 139, 146–47, 150, 246
Gropper, William, 139, 148–49, 156
Grosz, George, 194
Guggenheim Foundation, 308, 338, 340
Hamid, Sufi Abdul, 309–10, 312, 334, 336, 342, 345
Hampstead School of African Socialism, 133
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 139–40, 198, 217, 297, 301
“Hard Times” (poem), 40, 48
Hare, Elizabeth Sage, 146
Harlem: Afro-American leadership in, 309
and community organization, 308
and FWP, 312
and Great Depression, 292–93
black bourgeoisie, 143–44
black clerks, 309–10
black masses, 308
cabarets, 146
communism in, 293, 295, 309
early black migration to, 72–73
folk movements, 336
labor, 309, 336–37, 342
socialists in, 105–107, 163
traditional black leadership in, 309–10
West Indians in, 106, 349–50
mentioned, 108, 132, 134, 167, 168, 169, 222, 249, 276, 289, 302, 306, 347–48
Harlem: Negro Metropolis: reviews of, 344–46
summary analysis of, 341, 343–44
mentioned, x, 340, 342, 344, 347
Harlem Artists’ Guild, 326
“The Harlem Dancer” (poem), 81–83
“Harlem Glory” (unpublished novel), 347–48
Harlem Renaissance: and American race relations, 213
and black folk, 239
and Negritude, 216
and post-WWI interracial socializing, 139
art vs. propaganda, 239–41
peaks of, 237
roles of NAACP and Urban League in, 167
mentioned, 83, 213, 262–63, 293, 295, 296, 299, 338, 361
Harlem riot (1935), 309, 310, 336
“Harlem Runs Wild” (article), 309–10
Harlem Shadows: reviews of, 164–66
mentioned, 168, 198, 225, 231, 297
Harmon Foundation, 248
Harper and Brothers, 73, 232, 236, 248, 251, 253–54, 267, 274, 275, 276, 350
Harris, Frank, 58, 88–90, 93, 100, 108, 140, 228, 278, 315, 320, 352
Harrison, Hubert, 90–91, 105–106, 109, 139, 142, 143–45, 150, 165, 169–70
Hardey, Marsden, 194
Hathaway, William, 8, 11, 14
Haywood, Harry, 107
Haywood, William (“Big Bill”), 389
“He Also Loved” (story), 234
Hemingway, Ernest, 207
Herbst, Josephine, 194
“Heritage” (poem), 25
“He Who Gets Slapped,” 156, 190
Hider, Adolf, 155, 194, 334, 335, 349
Home to Harlem, 223–63
mentioned, 67, 73, 98–99, 266, 269, 272, 274, 282, 283, 285, 289, 293, 297, 339, 362
Homosexuality: in British Empire, 31
in New York City, 75
in Tangier, 412
“How Black Sees Green and Red” (article), 154
Huggins, Nathan, 241
Hughes, Langston, 69, 166, 215, 238–41, 243, 296
Huiswoud, Otto, 142, 176–80
Hurston, Zora Neale, 238, 239, 344–45
Hyam, Ronald, 31
“If We Must Die” (poem), 99–101, 140, 178
“In Bondage” (poem), 152
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 68, 90, 92, 105, 143, 150, 186, 389
Ingram, Rex, 226–28, 255
“In Memoriam: Booker T Washington” (poem), 66, 79
International Communist movement. See Third Communist International
International Socialist Club, 110, 126, 130, 171
“Invocation” (poem), 81–83
Ireland, 120, 128, 154, 163
“I Stripped Down Harshly” (poem), 152, 358–59
Ivy, James: on McKay, 150–51
mentioned, 246, 262, 314, 338, 411
Jackman, Harold, 295–96, 300, 338, 355
Jackman, I vie, 338, 355, 361, 362, 363
Jamaica: Assembly, 3
black peasantry, xi, 2–3
class and social structure, 2–3, 12, 50–51, 376
constabulary, 28
Crown Colony rule, 3
Darwinism vs. Christianity in, 14
religions in, 4–6, 12
slavery in, 2–3
mentioned, 134, 142, 271, 272, 282, 283, 289, 295, 352, 364
Jamaican dialect poetry, 35–62, 222, 247, 282
Jamaica Times, 18, 48–49, 50, 52, 54–57, 60
Jamaica Tribune, 54
James, C. L. R., x
James Hill Literary Society, 57
Jekyll, Edward Joseph Hill, 23
Jekyll, Gertrude, 380, 381
Jekyll, Herbert, 23, 380
Jekyll, Walter: and black peasantry, 24, 381
and Jamaican dialect, 30, 36
and Robert Louis Stevenson, 23
and Sidney Olivier, 29
as McKay’s guardian, 67
as probable homosexual, 29–30
biographical data, 22–25, 380
interest in McKay’s poetry, 24–25, 33
fictional portrayal, 282
finances McKay’s education, 59
intellectual and political attitudes, 24, 31–32
Jamaican home, 23–24
mentioned, 44, 47, 49–50, 55, 56, 60, 64, 107, 278, 381, 382
Jewish Frontier, 334, 335, 337
Jews, 157, 169, 216–17, 286, 295, 309–10, 334–35, 349
Johnson, Charles S., 213, 239
Johnson, Fen ton, 166
Johnson, James Weldon: on McKay, 287
on Communists, 418
praises Home to Harlem, 243–44
reviews Harlem Shadows, 164–65
urges McKay’s return, 289
mentioned, 69, 73, 140, 142, 145, 146, 150, 164, 168, 169, 213, 247, 248, 288, 292, 297, 306, 308, 321, 324, 326, 327, 337–38, 339, 419
Joyce, James, 130, 166, 207–208
“The Jungle and the Bottoms” (unpublished novel), 266–69, 271, 285–89, 298
Kansas State, 67–70, 108
Keating, Mary: on McKay, 366
mentioned, 356, 357–58, 359–60, 368
Keating, Tom, 357
Kemp, Ira, 336, 342
Kendall, Walter, 125
Kesdelcot, Lilyan, 259
“King Banana” (poem), 39, 43
Kingston Daily Gleaner, 34, 49, 50, 52, 54–56, 61
Kipling, Rudyard, 45
Kirchwey, Freda, 169, 308, 356, 359
Kirnon, Hodge, 165
Knopf, Alfred A., 139, 217, 221, 288
“Knutsford Park Races” (poem), 43
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 339
Labor: and Afro-Americans, 84, 186–87
during and after WWI, 84, 97–98, 186–87
in Harlem, 337
in post-WWI Britain, 111
Jewish, 335
movements, 135–37, 163
mentioned, 316
“Labor Steps Out in Harlem” (article), 336
Lane, Margaret, 135
Lansbury, George, 111, 113, 122, 270, 315
Lansbury, William, 122
Larbi, Abdeslam ben Hadj, 278
Larsen, Nella, 166, 239, 248
Latimer, Catherine, 342, 343
Lawrence, D. H., 308
Lawrence, Jacob, 338
League of American Writers, 329, 330
Lenin, Vladimer I., 121, 122, 136, 175, 176, 180, 184, 190, 192, 315, 337, 362, 394
Lero, Etienne, 290
Lewars family, 19, 265
Lewis, Sinclair, 216–217
Lhote, Andre, 200
Liberator: 134–170
and NAACP, 143
and race question, 190
Eastman resigns, 158
fundraising, 158–59
McKay as editor, 158, 167
omitted from Negroes in America, 164
staff ideological differences, 136–37
mentioned, 92–93, 104, 107, 112, 133, 176, 189, 199, 225, 291, 299, 304, 315, 316, 318, 326, 346
Lieber, Maxim, 297–98
Lippmann, Walter, 77, 289
Lisle, George, 5–6
“The Little Peoples” (poem), 102
Locke, Alain: reviews A Long Way from Home, 319–20
mentioned, 104, 167, 194, 200, 213, 215, 218, 224, 225, 226, 234, 239, 261, 338, 407, 411
London Daily Herald, 111, 113, 126–27
A Long Way from Home: 303–21
impressionistic style of, 307, 318
reviews, 314–321
self-definition in, 317–20
summary analysis of, 318
mentioned, x, 11, 70, 107, 109–10, 114–15, 118, 129, 134, 149, 169, 174, 180, 208, 211, 214, 228, 230, 264, 277, 322, 338–39, 340, 342, 388
“Looking Forward” (column), 340
Loving, Pierre, 194
Lucien (the sailor), 211, 218, 220–21
“The Lynching” (poem), 100
Lyons, Johnny, 31, 32, 382
McClure’s, 69, 283
MacDermot, Thomas H., 18, 49, 54–58, 60–63
McKay, Claude (Festus Claudius)—in Jamaica: birth, 7, 377
at Sunny Ville, 7–11, 16–20, 25, 34, 47, 57–60
childhood interests, 10, 15, 19
family origins and class, 1–9, 64
and father, 10, 13, 17, 19, 21–22, 25–26, 34, 364–65, 381
and mother, xii, 9–10, 17, 25–26
and U’Theo, 11–16, 18, 19–20
and other siblings, 16–18, 20, 27, 34
in Kingston, 21, 26–28, 33, 36, 40–43, 56–57, 60–62
and constabulary, 28, 34, 42
education and intellectual interests, 13–14, 18, 20–22, 24, 54, 57, 59–60
pastoral vision, ix, xi-xii, 1, 7, 11, 20, 62, 83, 363–64
—in United States: at Tuskegee, 56, 65–67
at Kansas State, 66–72
rejects return to Jamaica, 76
and Harlem, 71–72, 86–88, 105–107, 143–44, 221, 291–359
in New York City, 70–108, 133–70, 291–359
on U.S. return, 266, 287, 296
and FBI, 355, 421
and FWP, xi, 311–14, 339, 340
becomes U.S. citizen, 351
in Chicago, 359–69
mentioned, 357–59
—expatriation: in England, 108–33, 171–72
in France, 199–211, 212–18, 221–38, 246–49, 255–56, 260–65, 268–69
in Germany, 172, 193–200, 267–68
in Soviet Union, 174–92
in Spain, 238, 249, 259–60, 265–67, 289, 333, 352
in Morocco, 248–53, 259, 269–89, 306
reasons for, 208–209
—jobs and finances: jobs in U.S., 73, 76–78, 84–88, 90, 171, 200, 221, 228, 295, 354–56
with railroad, 84–88, 90, 221
search for jobs, 301–305
money problems, 196–98, 200, 209–10, 223, 224, 229–33, 274–76, 300–304, 346, 348, 355
—literary career: formative influences, xi-xii, and English literary inheritance, 14–15, 18–19, 28–30, 35–38, 43–47, 48, 77–78, 80–88, 100, 110, 118–19, 127–28, 151–54
dialect poetry, ix, 15–16, 27, 34, 35–37, 45–54, 60–61, 70, 119, 126
poetic themes, 16, 36, 38–47, 51, 53–54, 78–82, 151–54
American poetry, 26, 82, 104, 151–53, 166–67, 239, 247, 350, 358–59
fiction, x, 209, 211–12, 217–18, 221, 222, 257–58, 280, 286, 288, 289
nonfiction, x, 109–10, 118–19, 155–57, 197–98, 299, 308, 327–37, 339, 340–42, 344
short stories, 222–24, 229, 269, 271–73, 276
memoir, 129, 303, 306, 307, 310–13, 364
publication, 35, 46–54, 60–61, 81–84, 92, 99–102, 119, 213, 222, 281, 339, 365
in Workers’ Dreadnought, 114, 116–18, 120–24, 129–30
and Liberator, 135, 136, 146–50, 154–57, 158, 160, 161–63, 189
picaresque in, 269, 271
and Negritude, 215–16, 259
and Harlem Renaissance, x, 166–67, 213, 262–63
pseudonyms, 26, 78, 81, 116–18, 123–24, 394
awards, 53, 211, 248, 285, 296–97, 308, 339, 349–51
mentioned, 77–101, 103, 132, 151, 313–14
—personal life and relationships: character and personality, xi-xii, 84–86, 146–50, 170, 287, 291–92, 303–304, 328, 343–44, 354, 366
ambivalence, xi, 16, 71, 140–42, 146, 218, 263, 369
dependency, xii, 9, 13, 64, 287, 363
personal isolation, 295, 352
health, 191, 100–200, 209–10, 212, 236, 267–68, 273–74, 280, 351, 354, 356, 359, 361, 363, 365
drug use, 87–88, 408
homosexuality, 29–32, 75, 131, 149–51, 390
marriage, 70–76
daughter, 73–74, 264–65, 368
—politics and ideas, art vs. propaganda, 130, 137, 170, 212, 238–48, 299–300, 327
Roman Catholicism, xi, 351–69
radical U.S. politics, 68
communism, 1, 90–102, 107, 110–27, 129–33, 137, 154, 157, 170–91, 196, 219–20, 279, 293–94, 299–300, 317–18, 323, 326–34, 348–49, 352–54, 357, 359–63, 365–67
racial positions, x, 7, 64–65, 68–69, 98–102, 128, 130–31, 140–42, 144, 146–47, 154–55, 168, 209, 217–18, 237, 260, 263, 292, 294–95, 299, 301, 307, 322–25, 328, 233–37, 265, 341–43, 346, 348, 357
and WWI, 88–90, 127–28, 132
post-WWl U.S. imperialism, 366–67
fixed principles, 359–60
on Irish, 1, 154, 302
on Zionism, 335
McKay, Eulalie Imelda Lewars. courted by McKay, 59–60
marriage, 70–71
returns to Jamaica, 73
birth of daughter, 73
travels to New York City, 169
visits McKay in Paris, 264–65
McKay, Hannah Ann Elizabeth Edwards: early life, 6–7
character and personality, 8–9
health, 10
death, 25
McKay, Hubert, 7, 57
McKay, Matthew, 7
McKay, Nathaniel, 7, 57
McKay, Rachel, 7, 18, 34, 377
McKay, Reginald, 7
McKay, Thomas Edison, 7
McKay, Thomas Francis: background, character, and beliefs, 4–6, 19, 60
mentioned, 8, 10, 17, 25, 379
McKay, Uriah Theodore: character and beliefs, 12, 14–15, 20
education and career, 8, 11–12, 14, 16, 18, 19
influence on McKay, 11–12
mentioned, 7, 14, 28, 49, 57, 58, 64, 282, 283
Malone, Dudley Field, 139, 210
Mandel, Benjamin, 351
Marx, Karl, 157, 337
Marxism, 90, 192, 304, 315
Masses, 77, 91–93, 94, 135, 136, 143, 299
Masses-Liberator anthology, 225
Mass movements, and Afro-Americans, 197–98
May, Henry, 76–77
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 183
Mencken, H. L., 81, 159, 169, 183, 195–96, 212, 221, 222
Messenger, 106, 107, 109
Michael (the thief), 197
“A Midnight Woman to the Bobby” (poem), 40–41
Mill, John Stuart, 110
Miller, Henry, 91
Mills, Florence, 156
Milton, John, 100
Minor, Robert, 92, 135, 136, 137, 138, 142, 149, 167
Minority groups, European and Afro-American, 306–307
Moe, Richard, 308
Moon, Henry Lee, 291, 295, 321, 326, 338, 362
Moore, Richard B., 106–107, 142, 198
Morel, E. D., 113, 157
“Mulatto” (poem), 153, 225
Mussolini, Benito, 155, 328
“My Ethiopian Maid” (poem), 79
My Green Hills of Jamaica, 5, 10–11, 12, 18, 21, 29, 54, 56, 58, 135, 364, 365
“My Werther Days” (poem), 79
Naipaul, V. S., x Nardal, Jane, 215, 290
Nardal, Paulette, 215, 290
Nation, 80, 238, 308, 335, 336
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 72, 80, 104, 106, 139–48, 164, 167–69, 178, 182, 195, 210, 221, 223, 234, 293, 315, 324, 325, 338, 340, 343, 365
National Negro Congress, 332, 345
National Socialist party, 194, 361
National Urban League, 72, 139, 167, 178, 233, 293, 345, 365
Nazism, 329, 334, 349
Negritude, x, 215, 259, 290
Negro Authors’ Guild, 323, 326, 327–28, 351
“The Negro Dancers” (poem), 225
Negroes in America: summarized, 185–89
mentioned, x, 68, 90, 177, 184, 196, 210
Negro Labor Committee, 336
Negro Renaissance.See Harlem
Renaissance Negro Vogue, 229, 239–41, 275–76
Negro World, 107, 109, 145, 165
“A Negro Writer to His Critics” (article), 283–84
New Challenge, 319, 338, 362
New Deal, 293, 325
New Leader, 331, 332, 333, 340, 367
New Masses, 318
New Negro, 167, 225, 233, 276, 407
New Negro movement.See Harlem
Renaissance New Republic, 77, 321
New York Times, 164, 245, 276
New York Herald Tribune, 18, 209, 276, 284, 340
Nugent, Bruce, 295–96, 338
Obeah, 4–5
Ogden, C. K., 118, 126, 132
“Old England” (poem), 37
Olivier, Sidney, 29, 49, 90, 127
“On Becoming a Roman Catholic” (article), 364
“An Open Letter to James Rorty” (article), 330
Oppenheim, Joel, 77, 81
Opportunity, 233–34, 293, 340
Orwell, George, 346
Otdey, Roi, 344
Ousmane, Sembene, 259
“Outcast” (poem), 152
“Outcry Against the Black Horror” (article), 157
Ovington, Mary White, 141, 142
Owen, Chandler, 106, 143
Pan-African Congresses, 181
Pankhurst, Sylvia, 112–15, 119, 122–25, 131–32, 143, 171, 172, 315, 394
“Papine Corner” (poem), 43
Parker, Dorothy, 246
“Passive Resistance” (poem), 53
“Pay-Day” (poem), 43
Pearson, Vereda, 356, 358
Pearson’s, 11, 30, 76, 88–90, 107
“Peasants’ Way o’ Thinkin’,” (poem), 50–51
Peirce, Waldo, 226
“The People’s Parliament,” 48–49, 56
“Petrograd: May Day, 1923” (poem), 167, 191
Picaresque style: in Banjo, 254
in Home to Harlem, 241
in McKay’s fiction, 267
Pickens, William, 142
Pilnyak, Boris, 183
Pittsburgh Courier, 109, 245
Popular Front, 329–30, 332
Poston, Ted, 338
Pound, Ezra, 120
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 309, 337, 340
Primitivism, 239–41
“Quashie to Buccra” (poem), 38
Race relations, 56–57, 63–64, 97–102, 108, 139, 289, 343, 363
Racial riots, 98–102
Racism, 126–29, 146–47, 197–98, 227, 328, 334
Randolph, A. Philip, 106, 143, 345
Rappaport-Vogein, Fanny, 199, 277
Rationalism, 14–15, 20, 28–29, 32, 37, 45, 90, 352, 361
Red Scare, 97, 103
Reed, John, 137, 168, 176, 210, 230
Reider (French publisher), 281, 285
“Remorse” (poem), 79
Revue du Monde Noir, 290
“Ribber Come-Do’n” (poem), 9
Richards, Grant, 119
Richards, I. A., 126
“Right Turn to Catholicism” (ms.), 364, 365
Roberts, Laurence, 311
Robeson, Essie, 227
Robeson, Paul, 213, 227
Robinson, Boardman, 92
Rogers, Joel A., 247
“Romance in Marseilles,” 286, 298. See also “The Jungle and the Bottoms”
“A Roman Holiday” (poem), 99
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 305, 306
Rose, Ernestine, 350
Rose, Pauline, 216–17
Rosenwald Fund, 306, 307, 308, 310–11, 349, 356
Russell, Bertrand, 83–84
Russia. See Soviet Union
Russian Revolution, 115, 141, 172, 183, 352
Sabina (childhood friend), 134–35, 296
“Samson” (poem), 116
“Savage Loving.” See “The Jungle and the Bottoms”
Saxton, Eugene, 236–37, 253, 267, 268, 269, 275, 276, 280, 298
Schomburg, Arthur A., 150, 169, 198, 210, 216–17, 221, 223, 231, 232, 297, 312–13, 326, 338
Schuyler, George, 337
Second Congress, League of American
Writers, 329
Second World Congress of the Third
Communist International, 119, 176, 177
Segregation, in U.S., 64–65
Selected Poems, 365
Self-identity, in Afro-American literature, 69, 82
Senghor, Leopold Sedar, x, 215, 259
Sen Katayama, 174, 180, 401
Seven Arts, 77, 81, 88, 139
Shaw, George Bernard, 28, 74, 88, 110, 126–28, 208, 352
Sheil, Bishop Bernard J., 358, 359, 365, 366
Sheil School, 361, 363
Shepperson, George, 133
Sheridan, Clare, 138
Shuffle Along, 154, 155, 212
Sinn Fein, 1, 154
Smillie, Robert, 121, 122
Smith, Carlisle, 340
“The Soapbox” (column), 340
Socialism, 31, 49, 68, 90, 93–95, 105–106, 110–11, 127, 330, 331, 332, 352
“Socialism and the Negro” (article), 117
Socialist Call, 330, 331
Socialist Labour Party (SLP), 111
Socialist Party of America, 68, 90, 105, 141
“Song of the New Soldier and Worker” (poem), 118
Songs of Jamaica, 35–36, 44, 46–47, 50, 107, 385
Soviet Union, 122, 137, 162, 168, 169, 172, 180, 195, 199, 216, 218, 219, 294, 306, 321, 329, 330, 332, 334, 349, 367
Spectator (London), 18, 128–29
Spencer, Anne, 166
Spingarn, Arthur, 407
Spingarn, Joel: aids McKay, 81, 139–40, 210, 289
and NAACP, 140
mentioned, 80, 139, 141, 301, 303, 315–17
Springhall, David, 123–24, 130
Spring in New Hampshire: published, 25–26
mentioned, 132, 139, 140, 164, 198
Stalin, Joseph, 218, 219, 294, 329–30, 334
Stein, Gertrude, 207, 208, 232, 273
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 23, 382
Stolberg, Benjamin, 345
Streator, George, 320–21
Stribling, T S., 154, 157
“Strokes of the Tamarind Switch” (poem), 46
Sunny Ville, 6–7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 24, 57
Survey Graphic, 225
T.P.’s Weekly (London), 53
Tarry, Ellen, 324, 326, 338, 351, 368
“There Goes God! The Story of Father Divine and His Angels” (article), 308
Third Communist International (Comintern), 115, 121–22, 129, 136, 168, 172, 176, 183–84, 195, 197, 294, 298, 315, 318
Thompson, Anita, 264, 272–73, 277, 411
Thurman, Wallace, 166, 239, 296
Tiala, Alfred, 147–48
“Tiger” (poem), 367
“To a Friend” (poem), 60–61
Tolson, Melvin B., 320
Tolstoy, Leo, 208
Tonny, Kristians, 273, 277
Toomer, Jean, 159–60, 166, 214, 215, 238
Totalitarianism: German, 330
religious, 360
Soviet, 360
Soviet and German compared, 333–34
“To W.G.G.” (poem), 44
“To the White Fiends” (poem), 79
“Travail” (poem), 116
Tresca, Carlo, 365
“The Tropics in New York” (proposed book), 349–50
Trotsky, Leon, 180–83, 218, 220, 279, 280, 306, 330, 365
Trotskyists, 315, 322, 331
Trounstine, John, 277–78, 280, 281, 285, 286, 287
“Truant” (story), 74–76
Truman, Harry S., 366
Tully, Jim, 253
Tuskegee Institute, 55–57, 59, 64, 65
“Two-an’-Six” (poem), 39, 43
United Front. See Popular Front
United Hebrew Trades Association, 336
United States Office of War Information, 355
Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association, 327–28
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA), 104, 106, 142
Van Doren, Carl, 169, 246
Van Vechten, Carl, 83, 84, 222, 240, 261–62, 295, 345, 361
Veltheim, Erkki (Anderson
Comrade Vie), 120, 124–25, 126
Viking Press, 217
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 80, 289, 335
Virtue, Rhue Hope McKay, 73–74, 264–65, 368
Vogein, Pierre, 199, 209, 277, 311
Washington, Booker T., 20, 55–57, 64, 68, 104, 145, 225, 335, 343
Watson, James S., 350, 367
Wells, H. G., 88
West, Dorothy, 338, 362
West Indian poetry, 34–36, 383
West Indians: and Afro-Americans, 144
at Fourth Congress, 176
immigrants, 349–50
in Harlem, 342
in post-WWI London, 109
socialists, 180–81
“We Who Revolt” (poem), 219–20
White, Walter: reviews Harlem Shadows, 164–65
mentioned, 141, 142, 145, 146, 169, 195, 210, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 221, 223, 234, 258, 288, 292, 315, 325, 345, 407
Whitehead, Edgar, 125, 126, 172
“The White House” (poem), 225
Whitman, Walt, 28, 30–31, 80, 189
Wilde, Oscar, 28, 30, 88
Wilkins, Roy, 340
Women’s Dreadnought, 112
Wood, Charles, 159
Wood, Clement, 166
Woodson, Carter, 198, 210
Workers’ Dreadnought, 112, 113–14, 115–20, 122, 124, 127, 129–30, 136, 161–62, 315
Workers’ Party of America, 167, 173, 184, 186
Workers’ Socialist Federation (WSF), 112, 115, 117, 119, 129, 143
World War I, x, 82–85, 96–102, 127, 197, 346
World War II, x, 349
Wright, Richard, 82, 259, 320, 338, 361
Wylie, Elinor, 138
Yates, Ted, 324, 326
“The Yellow Peril on the Docks” (article), 123–24
Yesenin, Sergei, 182
Young, Art, 92
Zinoviev, Gregory, 177, 183, 184, 191, 194
Zionism, 335
Zobel, Joseph, 259