Abrams, George
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Acquanetta
Addie, Johnny
Adler, Larry
African Americans:
in France
military service of
northern migration of
poverty and unemployment of
see also black churches; Black Muslims; black nationalism; civil rights movement; racism; slavery
Alcatrez prison
Ali, Muhammad
SRR and
Ali, Sonji
Allen, Fred
Allen, Woody
Alvin Theater
Ambers, Lou
Amos ‘n’ Andy,
Amsterdam News,
Anderson, Dave
Angelou, Maya,
Angott, Sammy
anti-Semitism
Apollo Theater
Arcel, Ray
Archer, Joey
Arizmendi, Baby
Armstrong, Henry “Hammering Hank,”
early life of
featherweight, welterweight, and lightweight championships held simultaneously by
SRR and
Zivic’s defeats of
Armstrong, Louis “Satchmo,”
Army, U.S.
Special Services unit of
Army Air Corps:
SRR’s honorable discharge from
SRR’s service in
Asner, Ed
Atkins, Larry
Auriol, Madame Vincent
Austin, Charles
Ayon, Memo
Baker, Josephine
Baldwin, James
Bandy, Robert
Bardot, Brigitte
Barnes, Johnny
Barrow, Joe. See Louis, Joe
Barthwell’s Drug Stores
baseball
color barrier broken in
minor vs. major league
Basie, Count
Basilio, Carmen
Beacon,
Beecham, Jimmy
Belafonte, Harry
Bell, Tommy
Belloise, Steve
Bennett, Roscoe
Bent, Rudolf
Berger, Phil
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bingham, Howard
Black, Hubert Julian
Blackburn, Jack “Chappie,”
black churches
Black Muslims
black nationalism
Body and Soul,
Bolger, Ray
Bomtemps, Arna
Bonomi, John Gurnee
Booksinger, Benny
Born Yesterday (Kanin)
Boston Post,
boxing:
amateur
betting on
bootleg matches in
exhibition matches in
golden age of
importance of gyms
injury and scarring in
mobster connections in
nontitle bouts in
official weigh-ins in
professional
radio broadcasts of
rhythm and pacing in
rules of
segregation in
sexual abstinence and
television broadcasts of
weight divisions in
Boxing Hall of Fame,
Boxing Writers’ Association (BWA)
Braca, Ernie
Braddock, James
Braithwaite, William Stanley
Bratton, Johnny
Brenner, Teddy
Brewer, Clyde
Brewer, Marie Smith
Brewster Center
Brill Building
Brimm, Henry
Brion, Cesar
Bromberg, Lester
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooks, Pat,
Brown, Bundini
Brown, Panama
Brown Bomber (Nagler)
Brown vs. Board of Education,
Bruce, Lenny
Bruce, Millie. See Robinson, Millie Bruce
Bryant, Willie,
Buchanan, Bessie
Buchanan, Charlie
Buffalo, Gene
Bunche, Ralph
Burley, Dan
Burman, Red
Burton, Gene
Burton, Richard
Cabelle, Skeets
Callahan, Mushy
Campanella, Roy
Camp Sibert
Canadian Ace Brewing Company
Candy,
Cannon, Jimmy
Canzoneri, Tony
Capone
Carbo, Frankie
Carol, Martine
Carpentier, Georges
Carver Federal Savings and Loan
Association
Casablanca,
Casson, Ira
Castellani, Rocky
Castro, Fidel
Catskill Mountains
Cayton, Bill
Cecil Hotel
Cerdan, Marcel
Champion Coat and Apron Company
Charles, Ezzard
Chevalier, Maurice
Chicago
Chicago Stadium
Childress, Alvin
Chocolate, Kid
Churchill, Savannah
civil rights movement
Clark, Kenneth
Clark, Mamie
Clay, Cassius. See Ali, Muhammad
Cochrane, Red
Cocteau, Jean
Cole, Nat “King,”
Collins, James
Concord Baptist Church
Condon, John
Conn, Billy
Connelly, Michael
Connie’s Inn
Conrad, Robert
Considine, Bob
Cooke, Sam
Cooper Junior High SchooL
Corum, Bill
Costner, George
Cotton Club
Count Basie Band
Cox, Danny
Crosby, Bing
Crummell, Alexander
Cullen, Countee
Cullen, Reverend
Daily News
Daily Worker
Daley, Arthur
Daley, Chuck
Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for
Cancer Research
Dana, Robert
Dandridge, Dorothy
Daniels, Ron
Darcel, Denise
Dark Ghetto (Clark)
Dave’s Vegetable and Meat Market
Davis, Miles
Davis, Sammy, Jr.
Dawson, James
Delannoit, Cyrille
Dempsey, Jack
De Niro, Robert
Depression, Great
Detective, The,
Detroit
Black Bottom area of
black enterprise in
discrimination and segregation in
industry and labor in
nightclubs and bars in
North End of
Paradise Valley area of
population of
Southern black migration to
SRR’s early years in
SRR’s fight appearances in
suburbs of
violence and crime in
Detroit News
Detroit Tigers
Detroit Times,
Devil and Sonny Liston, The (Tosches)
Diago, Yvette
Dixon, Sylvia
Docusen, Bernard
Dominoes
Dorham, Kenny
Dorough, Bob
Downes, Terry
Doyle, Jimmy
Du Bois, Herman
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Dundee, Angelo
Dunn, Katherine
Dunphy, Don
Dundee, Jimmy
Dupas, Ralph
Durelle, Yvon
Early, Gerald
Ebony,
Echeverria, Joe
Edden, Erskine
Edgar, Jimmy
Edna Mae’s Lingerie Shoppe
Ed Sullivan Show, The
Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque
Edwards, Clint
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Elia, Joseph C.
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Emil K.
Ellison, Ralph
Empire State Building
Estatoff, Georges
Evans, Mike
Faubus, Orval
Fetchit, Stepin
“Fifth Avenue Uptown” (Baldwin)
Finazzo, Eddie
Fine, Sidney
Fitzgerald, Jim
Fleischer, Nat
Flowers, Theodore “Tiger,”
Ford, Henry
Ford, Kid
Ford Motor Company
Forrest, Vernon
Fort Dix
Fox, Billy
Foxx, Red
FREE Theatre Project
Fried, Ronald K.
Fullmer, Gene
Fusari, Charley
Gainford, George
SRR trained by
Galento, “Two Ton” Tony
Gans, Panama Joe
Garcia, Ceferino
Garfield, John
Gavilan, Kid
SRR’s bout with
Georgia
Giambra, Joey
Giardello, Joey
Gibson, Althea
Gibson, Truman
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gillette Blue Blades
Gilman’s Training Camp
Glaser, Joe
Gleason’s Gym
Godoy, Arturo
Golden Gate Ballroom
Golden Glovers barbershop
Golden Gloves,
Golden Gloves tournament
Goldman, Herb
Goldstein, Ruby
Gonzales, Babs
Gonzalez, Gerardo. See Gavilan, Kid
Gonzalez, Manuel
Gordy, Berry
Gossett, Louis
Graham, Billy
Grand Rapids Press,
Grant, Donald L., 8Graziano, Rocky
Greatest, The (Ali)
Greaves, Wilf
Green, Benny
Greenberg, Harry
Greenwood Lake
Greshler, Abner J.
Griffith, Emile
Gross, Milton
Grupp’s Gym
Haiti
Halloran Hospital
Hamill, Pete
Hard Stuff (Young)
Harlem
business and commerce in
Castro and Khrushchev visit to
crime and violence in
hotels in
Josephine Baker Day in
nightspots, music and dancing in
police brutality in
poverty, hunger and unemployment in
race riots in
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem River
Harlem Youth Act (HARYOUACT)
Harrington, Stan
Harry Wiley’s Gym
Hart, Kitty Carlisle
Harvard University
Harvey, Cedric
Hauser
Hayes, Charley
Hayes, Gabby
Headley, Mike
Health and Hospital Corporation of New York
Hearns, Tommy
Heart of a Woman, The (Angelou)
Hecht, Gerhard
Helfand, Julius
Heller, Peter
Hennessy, Sam
Hern, Gerry
Hernandez, Art
Holiday, Billie
Holliday, Judy
Holloman, Charlotte
Holly, Alonzo Potter Burgess
Holly, Ellen
Holly, James Theodore
Holly, James Theodore, Jr.
Holly, Lucia Webb Edden
Holly, Vernon Rose Edden
Hollywood Legion Stadium group
Holstein, Casper
Horne, Lena
Horrman, Curt
SRR managed by
Houdini, Harry
House Un–American Activities
Committee
Hubbard, Freddie
Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Hudson River
Hughes, Langston
Hunter College
Ile de France,
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Impellitteri, Vincent
I’m Still Swinging,
Infantes, Diego
Inner City Broadcasting Corporation
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International Boxing Club (IBC)
International News Service
Invisible Man (Ellison)
In Words and Music,
Jack, Beau
Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant
Jackson, Delilah
Jackson, Henry. See Armstrong, Henry
“Hammering Hank”
Jackson, Jesse
Jacobs, Mike
Jefferson, Carl
Jeffries, Jim
Jet
Jo, Damita
Johansson, Ingemar
Johnson, Bumpy
Johnson, Harold “Killer,”
Johnson, Hinton
Johnson, Jack
Jolson
Jones, Doug
Jones, Ralph “Tiger,”
Jones, Soldier
Joseph, Marjorie “Marjie,”
J. R. Watkins Company
Julian, Hubert
Kahn, Roger
Kanin, Garson
Karoubi, Jimmy
Katzenbach, Nicholas
Keats, John
Keep Punching,
Kefauver, Estes
Kelly, Gene
Kennedy, John F.
Ketchel, Stanley
Khrushchev, Nikita
King, B. B.
King, Don
King of the World (Remnick)
Klein, Woody
Ku Klux Klan
Lafayette Theatre
La Guardia, Fiorello
Laine, Frankie
LaMotta, Jake “Raging Bull,”
power and popularity of
SRR’s bouts with
“St. Valentine’s Day Massacre” fight of SRR and
LaMotta, Vikki
Lang, Father
Langford, Sam
LaRover, George
Lavorante, Alejandro
Lawrenson, Helen
Lee, Canada
Lee, Spike
Lello, Pete
Leonard, Benny
Leonard, Jack E.
Leonard, Sugar Ray
LeRoy, Hal
Lester, Vern
Le Tang, Harry
Levine, Artie
Levine, Gus
Liberté,
Lido Pool
Liebling, A. J.
Life,
Lindsay, John
Lindsay’s Promise: The Dream That
Failed (Klein)
Links
Lipton, Harold
Liston, Sonny
Lloyd’s of London
Logan, Arthur
Lombardo, Johnny
Long Walk to Freedom, A (Mandela),
Los Angeles
Watts riots in
Los Angeles Times,
Louis, Joe
amateur career of
birth of
business and financial affairs of
childhood and adolescence of
comedy routine of
death of
decline of
fame of
film based on life of
first professional defeat of
as heavyweight champion of the world
marriage of
name change of
official retirement of
romantic liaisons of
Schmeling’s matches with
SRR’s close relationship with
Lundgren, Birgit
Lynn, Conrad
Mabley, Moms
McMurray, Raymond
McPhatter, Clyde
McQuillen, Bobby
MacRae, Gordon
Madison Square Garden
SRR as headliner at
tribute to SRR at
Malcolm
“Mammy,”
Mandela, Nelson
Manhattan College
Manufacturers Trust Company
Marcel, Kid
March on Washington (1963)
Marciano, Rocky
Mardo, Bill
Markson, Harry
Matthews, Les
Maxim, Joey
Mays, Marguerite
Mays, Willie
Mead, Eddie
Meltzer, Milton
Melville, Herman
Miami
Michaelis, Charlie
Miller, Bernie
Miller, Ray
Miller, William “Pops,”
Mills, Florence
Mimo Club
Mission: Impossible
Mitchell Field
Moby Dick (Melville)
Monroe, William C.
Moore, Archie
Moore, Buddy
Motisi, Tony
Moyer, Denny
Moyer, Phil
“Mr. Success,”
Murder, Inc.
Murphy, Eddie
Murrow, Edward R.
Nagler, Barney
Naked City, The
Nardiello, Vincent
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Boxing Association
National Guard
National Urban League
Nation of Islam
Navy, U.S.
Nettlow
Nevada Boxing Commission
Newfield, Jack
New Granada Theater
Newsweek
New York Chiefs
New York City
Bronx in
Central Park in
Hell’s Kitchen section of
1965 blackout in
Staten Island in
Tin Pan Alley in
see also Harlem
New York Daily Mirror
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York Homeopathic College
New York Journal–American
New York Post
New York State Athletic Commission
New York State Boxing Commission
New York State Liquor Authority (SLA)
New York Sunday Mirror
New York Times
New York World Telegram and Sun
Nichols, Joe
Nixon, Billy
Norfolk, Kid
Norris, Jim
Norwood, Walter
Norwood Hotel
Nugent, Pete
Oates, Joyce Carol
Olla, Ted
Olson, Carl “Bobo,”
Olympia Stadium
Olympic Games
One Life (Holly)
Pacheco, Ferdie
Palais des Sports
Palermo, Frankie “Blinky,”
Panter, Garth
Papaleo, Willie. See Pep, Willie
Paramount Hotel
Paris
Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light (Stovall)
Parker, Dan
Parks, Gordon
Parsons, Louella
Patterson, Floyd
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on
Pender, Paul
Pep, Willie
Perry, Lincoln
Person to Person,
Philadelphia
Plantation Club
Poitier, Emma Webb
Poitier, Reggie
Poitier, Sidney
Police Athletic League (PAL)
Polo Grounds
Pound for Pound (documentary)
Powell, Adam Clayton
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
Powell, C. B.
Pride and the Passion, The
Prohibition
Pythagoras
racism
church burning and
Jim Crow segregation and discrimination as
lynching and
police brutality and
race riots and
Raging Bull
Randolph, A. Philip
Randolph, Red
Rangel, Charles
Reed, Leonard
Remnick, David
Respectful Prostitute, The (Sartre)
Reuben James,
Reynolds, Linda
R. G. S. Reality Corporation
Rhodes, Teddy
Rhumboogie
Rice, Grantland
Rindone, Joe
Ring,
SRR as fighter of the year in
Rinky Dinks
Rivers, Joan
RKO–Television
Roach, Max
Roberts, Thomas
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,”
funeral of
SRR’s imitation of
Robinson, Edna Mae Holly:
birth and childhood of
business abilities and record keeping of
character and personality of
death of
distinguished family background of
fur coat collection of
higher education of
marriage of SRR and
nightclub dancing and acting of
post-divorce financial straits of
pregnancies and childbirth of
separations and divorce of SRR and
SRR’s physical abuse of
SRR’s star-crossed relationship with
striking beauty of
unpublished memoir of
volunteer work of
Robinson, Jackie
Robinson, Millie Bruce
Robinson, Rachel
Robinson, Ray
Robinson, Ray, Jr.
childhood and adolescence of
on SRR
Robinson, Ronnie (Smith)
Robinson, Sugar Chile
Robinson, Sugar Ray:
Alzheimer’s diagnosis of
amateur career of
amnesia claimed by
aspirations and dreams of
athletic ability of
autobiography of
awards of
birth of
boxer’s death caused by
boxing technique of
boxing vs. fighting as ideal of
brief childhood farm life of
business enterprises of
café owned by
celebrity and glamour of
character and personality of
childhood and adolescence of
cornermen and sparring partners of
death dreams of
death of
early gym attendance of
education of
elevators avoided by
entrepreneurial and bargaining sensibility of
European tours of
fans and entourage of
fast feet and fists of
fatherhood of
featherweight ranking of
fight earnings of
financial and business difficulties of
first knockout by
first marriage and annulment of
first victory party of
flashy style of
flyweight ranking of
gambling of
generosity of
glucose and vitamin injections of
Golden Gloves titles of
golf tournament co-sponsored by
incomparable ring record of
injuries and scars of
knockouts scored by
last great ring victory of
libel suit of
light-heavyweight rankings of
lightweight ranking of
liquor license withheld from
management and promotion of
marijuana use of
marriages of. See Joseph, Marjorie
“Marjie”; Robinson, Edna Mae
Holly; Robinson; Millie Bruce
middleweight ranking and title of
military service of
musical aptitude of
natural power, grace, and endurance of
paternity suit against
philandering of
philanthropy of
physical decline of
physique and stature of
pink Cadillac and other automobiles of
as “pound for pound” best boxer
powerful punches of
prefight ritual of
press coverage of
professional debut of
professional name adopted by
psychological and physical conditioning of
racial discrimination experienced by,
sartorial style of
show business career of
singing voice of
six-year blacklisting of
tap dancing of
temporary retirements of
Time cover story on
training regimen of
underworld elements attracted to
violent temper and abusive behavior of,
wealth of
weight-gaining efforts of
welterweight ranking and title of
wicked left hook of
world-class career predicted for,
youthful jobs of
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Ross, Barney
Roth, Bob
Rothschild, Norman
Route
Roxborough, John
Royals, Samuel “Shake,”
Roy Scott Studio
Rumpf, Howard
Ruth, Babe
Ryan, Robert
St. Clair, Stephanie
St. Cloud Country Club
St. Jacques, Raymond
St. Matthew’s Church
St. Thomas the Apostle Roman Catholic Church
St. Vincent Charity Hospital
Salem Crescent gym
Salem Methodist Church
Salvation Army
Sammons, Jeffrey
Sarron, Petey
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Saunders, Hilly
Savold, Lee
Savory, P. M. H.
Savoy Ballroom
Sawyer, Grant
Saxton, Johnny
Schaap, Dick
Schiff, Alexander
Schmeling, Max
Schmidt, Peter
School Daze,
Schoor, Gene
Schultz, Dutch
Scillie, Henri
Scott, Hazel
Sebastian, Flashy
Selassie, Haile
Servo, Marty
Shank, Ruben
Shapiro, Maxie
Shibe Park
Shropshire, Kenneth
Siki, Battling
Sikora, Frankie
Silliphant, Stirling
Silvana
Simon, Andrea
Simon, Roger
Simon & Schuster
Sinatra, Frank
Sinclair, Abiola
slavery
Sleeping Car Porters
Smalls, Ed
Smalls’ Paradise
Smith
Smith, Evelyn
Smith, Lelar “Leila” Hurst
domestic and factory work of
early opposition to SRR’s boxing career by
SRR’s generosity to
SRR’s relationship with
Smith, Marie. See Brewer, Marie Smith
Smith, Marion
Smith, Walker, Jr. See Robinson, Sugar Ray
Smith, Walker, Sr.
character and personality of
manual labor of
Northern migration of
SRR’s relationship with
Somebody Up There Likes Me (Graziano)
Southern, Terry
Speary, Bill
Spencer, Gene
Sport,
Sports Illustrated,
Springer, Wilfred
Stafford, Silent
State Department, U.S.
Stevens, Hope
Steward, Emanuel
Stillman’s Gym
Stock, Jean
Stovall, Tyler
Stranger at the Party (Lawrenson)
Sugar, Bert
Sugar Ray Robinson: Bright Lights and Dark Shadows of a Champion
Sugar Ray Robinson Harlem Enterprises
Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation
Summer, Ed
Sunday Express (London)
Supreme Court, U.S.
Supreme Linen and Laundry Company
Susskind, David
Sutton, Percy
“Sweet Georgia Brown,”
Sydenham Hospital
Tambourines of Glory (Hughes)
Tan
Tandy, Vertner
Tannen, Stanley Eugene
Taylor, Art
Taylor, Chuck
Taylor, Gardner C.
Templeton, Alec
Theresa Hotel
Tiger, Dick
Time,
Toast of the Town
Tonawanda, Jackie
Tosches, Nick
Treasury Department, U.S.
Tree of Hope (Wishing Tree)
Trevigne, Barbara
Trotter, Marta
Turpin, Randy
Twain, Mark
Twentieth Century Sporting Club
Tyson, Mike
Valentine, Spider
Van Dam, Luc
Vanity Fair
Vanucci, Armand
Vejar, Chico
Villemain, Robert
Voices in the Mirror (Parks)
Wade, Tiger
Walcott, Jersey Joe
Walcott, Young Joe
Walker, A’Lelia
Wallace, Coley
Waller, Langley
Walzack, Jean
Warner, Jack
Webster, Milton
What’s My Line,
White, Peter J.
Wiley, Harry
Wilfred’s Academy of Hour and Beauty
Culture
Willard, Jess
Williams, Edward Bennett
Williams, Joe
Wills, Harry “Black Panther,”
Wilson, Dooley
Wilson, Fred
Wilson, Jackie (boxer)
Wilson, Jackie (singer)
Wilson, Sunnie
Winchell, Walter
Womber, Danny “Bang Bang,”
Woodard, Dino
World Champions, Inc.
World War I
World War II
Wortherly, Sigmund
Wright, Winky
Yankee Stadium
Young, Bob
Young, Coleman
Youngstown Business–Journal
Zale, Tony
Zannelli, Ralph
Zanuck, Darryl
Zengaras, George
Zivic, Fritzie