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Abbott, Robert S.

Addams, Jane

AFL (American Federation of Labor)

Africa: attitudes towards; Back to Africa Movement; heritage; independence movements; literature about; music; plays about; press coverage; struggles of; visits to

African American culture: art of; literature about; social commentators of

African American families: intra-family relations; migration; relations; struggles

African Art

Algren, Nelson: acquaintances of; influence on authors; influence on Chicago Renaissance; on Let No Man Write My Epitaph; as a member of LAW; on A Raisin in the Sun

American Federation of Labor. See AFL

American Negro Exposition

American South: criticisms of; experiences in; literature about; people from

Anderson, Sherwood

Annie Allen (Brooks)

ANP (Associated Negro Press): coverage by; founding of; goals of; members of; press similar to; relations with the Defender

Anvil: and the Chicago Renaissance; as an important publishing outlet; literature of; merge of, with Partisan Review; replacement of

Armstrong, Louis

Art Institute of Chicago

Associated Negro Press. See ANP

Atlanta World

Attaway, William: birth of; death of; and Ellison; in “Five Negro Novelists: Revolt and Retreat”; in high school; involvement in Work Progress Administration; and Left; life of; marriage of; in Negro Digest; reviews of; role in Chicago Renaissance; Rosenwald Fellowship; and the Rosenwald Fund; and stage; and television; and Wright

Attaway, William, works of: Blood on the Forge (see Blood on the Forge); “Carnival”; “Death of a Rag Doll”; Hear American Singing; Let Me Breathe Thunder; “Tale of the Blackamoor”

Augusta, GA

autobiography: of Barnett; Black Boy; of Brooks; of Davis; of Johnson; of Parks

An Autobiography of Black Jazz (Travis)

Baldwin, James: literary criticism of; meeting with Kennedy; message at the funeral of Hansberry; opinions of; relation to Walker; role in Black Arts Movement; role in Chicago Renaissance

Barnett, Claude: and the ANP; death of; education of; life of; as a media entrepreneur; “The Negro Press in Americas War Effort”; opinions of; politics of; and the WNP

beauty: appreciation of; in the environment; in literature; in photography; as political resistance

Belafonte, Harry

Bigger Thomas; articles about; importance of, to Chicago Renaissance; literary criticism of; origin of; similarities of, to other works

black actors

Black Arts Movement: effect of, on Walker; importance of; influence of Brooks on; influence of Danner on; literary works of; music of; opinions of

Black Belt: communism in; migration to; music of; as a nation; struggles in

Black Boy/American Hunger (Wright): comparisons of, to other literature; history of; influence of; reviews of; themes in

black families: in literature; struggles of

Black Federal Theatre

Black Jazz

black musicians

Black Power

Black Press: and the ANP; and Browning; and the Chicago Renaissance; columns; and Davis; and the Defender; and Durham; history of; newspapers of the; and the NNPA; and Payne; politics of the; publishers of the

black women: international group of; in literature; struggles of

Black worker

Black World

Blakely, Henry

Blakely, Henry, works of: “Autumn Perspective”; “Dread Automaton”; “Dry Well Papers, The”; “Earthworm”; “Lucy”; “My Daddy”; “Windy Place”; Windy Place

Bland, Alden: birth of; death of; education of; and Edward Bland; reviews of; and the South Side Writers Group; and Wright

Bland, Alden, works of: Behold A Cry

Bland, Edward: birth of; death of; education of; and the Edward Bland Prize for Literature; involvement in South Side Writers group; literary criticism of; and Marxism; in Negro Quarterly; opinions of; and the South Side Chicago Community Art Center; and the South Side Writers Group; and Wright

Bland, Edward, works of: “Racial Bias and Negro Poetry”; “Social Forces in Shaping The Negro Novel”

Bland, Edward, Sr

Bland, Edward, III

Blood on the Forge (Attaway): history of; reviews of; synopsis of; themes in

blues: and “Blueprint for Negro Writing”; and Brown; and Burley; in Chicago; and Davis; during the Chicago Renaissance; and Hansberry; and the Harlem Renaissance; and Johnson; in literature; pioneers of; and Terkel

Bone, Robert

Bonner, Marita

Bonner, Marita, works of: “Black Fronts”; “Corner Store, The”; “Drab Rambles”; “First Portrait, The”; “Frye Street”; Frye Street and Environs; “Hands, The”; “Hate Is Nothing”; “Makin’s, The”; “On Being Black-a Woman-and Colored”; “One Boy’s Story”; “One True Love”; “Patch Quilt”; “Pot Maker, The”; “Prison-Bound, The”; “Purple Flower, The”; “There Were Three”; “Tin Can”; “Young Blood Hungers, The”

Bontemps, Arna: and the Challenge; and the Chicago Renaissance; comparisons to; and the Harlem Renaissance; history of; interracial liaisons of; and Johnson; and the LAW; moving of; and the Negro Digest; opinions of; and the South Side Writers Club; and the South Side Writers Group; themes of; and Walker; and Yerby

Boston, MA

Broadside Press

Bronzeville: atmosphere in; dancers of; history of; music of; Ward in

Brooks, Gwendolyn: and Blakely; and Bland; and Brown; and Browning; and the Chicago Defender; and the Chicago Renaissance; and Danner; and Defender; and Durham; and the LAW; life of; and music; and Negro Digest; and Negro Story; and the School of Sociology; and the second movement of the Chicago Renaissance; and the South Side Writers Group; view of, of Chicago; and Walker

Brooks, Gwendolyn, works of: Annie Allen (see Annie Allen); Bean Eaters, The; Beckonings; Blacks; Bronzeville Boys and Girls; Children Coming Home; “Eventide”; Gottschalk and the Grand Tarantelle; In Montgomery: and Other Poems; In the Mecca; “kitchenette building”; Maud Martha; Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems, The; “Negro Hero”; Primer for Blacks; Report from Part One; Report from Part Two; Riot; Street in Bronzeville, A (see Street in Bronzeville, A); Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, The; To Disembark; Very Young Poets; World of Gwendolyn Brooks, The; Young Poet’s Primer

Brooks Press

Broonzy, William

Brown, Frank London: comparison of, to other authors; as a director at the University of Chicago; influence of music on; life of; in the Negro Digest; relationship with Motley

Brown, Frank London, works of: “McDougal”; “More Man Than Myth”; Myth Maker, The; “Singing Dinah’s Song”; Trumbull Park

Brown, John

Brown, Sterling: in Challenge; as head of the Illinois FWP; and The Negro Caravan; in New Challenge; opinions of; precursors to the works of; trips to Jackson of

Browning, Alice

Burley, Dan

Burley, Dan, works of: Dan Burley’s Original Handbook of Harlem Jive; Diggeth Thou?

Burroughs, Margaret

Byron, H. H.

Cayton, Horace: and Black Metropolis; influence of; opinions of; at the University of Chicago

Chatham Bookseller

Chesnutt, Charles

Chess brothers

Chicago Bee: columnists of; editor of; as an important publishing outlet

Chicago Blues

Chicago Breakdown (Rowe)

Chicago Commission on Race Relations

Chicago Defender: and Attaway; and Barnett; and Brooks; and Brown; and Browning; and Burley; and the Chicago Renaissance; and Destination Freedom; and Destination Freedom; and Durham; and the Great Migration; history of; and Hughes; ideologies of; ideologies of the; and Johnson; and Motley; and the NANM; in relation to other newspapers; and Sengstacke; and Ward; and Wright

Chicago Negro Unit

Chicago Post Office

Chicago Renaissance, earlier

Chicago Review

Chicago School of Sociology: history of; literature of; members of; role of, in Chicago Renaissance

Chicago Whip

children: and being black; and Blakely; devotion to; experiences of; lack of; in photography; struggles of; well-being of

CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations): formation of; industrial unions of; role in Chicago Renaissance

Cleveland, OH

columnist; goals of

Commission on Race Relations

Communism: appeal of, to black intellectuals; and Attaway; and Big White Fog; and the CIO; criticisms of; and Daily Worker; and Davis; and the FTP; and the JRC; and the LAW; and Motley; and The Myth Maker; and the National Negro Congress; and Negro Quarterly; in novels; in poetry; and the Red Scare; and Walker; and Ward; and Wright

Communist Party of the United States of America. See CPUSA

Congress of Industrial Organizations. See CIO

Conroy, Jack: collaborations of; as an editor; influence of; literature of; in Negro Story

Costume Novel

Cox, Ida

CPUSA (Communist Party of the United States of America)

Crisis, The: and Bonner; comparisons of, to Bookshelf; and DuBois; editor of; and the Harlem Renaissance; and Minus; politics of; and the Red Summer; reviews in; and Ward; and Yerby

Daily Worker

Danner, Margaret

Danner, Margaret, works of: Down of a Thistle, The; Far From Africa: Four Poems; “Muffin”

Davis, Frank Marshall: and the ANP; and Bland; and Chicago; and Durham; influence of; and Johnson; life of; move of, to Hawaii; and Negro Digest; and Negro Story; and New Challenge; and protest realism; and the School of Sociology; and the South Side Community Arts Center; and the South Side Writers Group; and Wright

Davis, Frank Marshall, works of: Black Man’s Verse; 47th Street; I Am The American Negro; Livin’ The Blues; Sex Rebel: Black; Through Sepia Eyes

Davis, Robert

democracy: American Youth for; and the CPUSA; history of; in literature; literature of; struggles of

Depression, the Great: Black Press during; effects of; in literature; music of; politics of

Destination Freedom (Durham)

Detroit, MI: and Danner; and Defender; and Durham; and Ebony; importance of, in Chicago Renaissance; and the JRC; major venues in; and New Force; and Yerby

Devil’s Music (Oakley)

dialect poems

Dial Press

Dodson, Owen

Douglass, Frederick

Drake, St. Clair: influence of; as a sociologist; in the South Side Writers Group; trips to Jackson

Dreiser, Theodore: influence of; role of, in earlier Chicago Renaissance; as a writer

DuBois, W. E. B.: and Abbott; and the ANP; on the color line; and the Commission on Race Relations; and The Crisis; and Defender; and Freedom; and Graham; and the “Great Migration”; and Hansberry; and the Harlem Renaissance; ideologies of; literature of; opinions of; politics of

Dunbar, Paul Laurence

Dunham, Katherine: as a dancer; in the Illinois Writers Project; relations with Attaway; works about

Durham, Richard

Ebony: creation of; criticisms of; editor of; history of; publisher of; similarity of, to Duke; works in

Ellison, Ralph: and the Black Arts Movement; and Bland; and the Chicago Renaissance; as a high modernist novelist; in journals; opinions of; prominence of; reviews by; reviews of

environment; and the Chicago School; musical influence in the; in the works of Bonner; in the works of Brooks; in the works of Brown; in the works of Wright

ethnicity

Fabre, Michel

family: Black Belt; coming to terms with; migration of; obligations to; plays about; struggles of; values of

Farm Security Administration

Farrell, James T.

father: of Attaway; in Behold A Cry; in Big White Fog; in Black Boy; in The Dahomean; in “The Fine Line”; in Let No Man Write My Epitaph; in The Long Dream; in “My Daddy”; in “One Boys Story”

Fauset, Jessie

Federal Theatre Project: censorship of; exposure of; history of; members of; opportunities from; politics of; productions of; scholarship on

Federal Writers’ Project (FWP): history of; members of; politics of; ties to IWP and FTP

Fisk University

Florida A&M University

Fontenelle family

Fort Scott

Fraden, Rena

Frances Fisher Brown

Garvey, Marcus; as founder of UNIA; ideologies of; influence of, on Davis

Gayden, Fern

Gloster, Hugh

Gold, Michael

gospel

Hansberry, Carl

Hansberry, Lorraine: in the Chicago Defender; criticism of Wright; life of; in Negro Digest; role of, in second wave of Chicago Renaissance; works of

Hansberry, Lorraine, works of: “Flag from a Kitchenette Window”; Les Blancs; Letters to Ladder; Movement: A Documentary of a Struggle for Equality, The; Raisin in the Sun, A; Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, The

Harlem Renaissance: common themes of the; connection of, to Chicago Renaissance; criticism of the; cultural life of the; literature of the; periodicals of the; scholars associated with

Hawaii: experiences in; moving to

Hayden, Robert: in the FWP; membership of the JRC; opinions of; poetry of; publications of; trips to Jackson

Hemingway, Ernest

heritage: of Chicago; importance of; literature about

Herndon, Angelo

Himes, Chester: in Abbott’s Monthly; as a black Nationalist; influence of; influence of Wright on; leaving of the U.S.; in Negro Story; reviews of

Hines, Earl

Honolulu

HUAC

Hughes, Langston: and Abbott’s Monthly; and African American Music; and the ANP; and the Black Arts Movement; and Chicago; and the Chicago Defender; collaboration of, with Bontemps; and Harlem; and the Harlem Renaissance; influence on black writers; influence on Blakely; influence on Bland; influence on Brooks; influence on Davis; influence on Durham; influence on Hansberry; influence on Parks; influence on Walker; influence on Wright; and leftist politics; and Negro Story; and New Challenge; poems about; and poetry; and Sandburg; support of Big White Fog; and vernacular music; and Whitman

Hull House

Hurston, Zora Neale; correspondence with Barnett; literary criticism of; reviews by; role in Harlem Renaissance

Illinois Writers’ Project (IWP)

Inez Cunningham Stark Boulton

Jackson, Mahalia

Jackson, MS: and the Black Arts Movement; MS, black women writers in; MS, music in; MS, schools in; MS, and Walker; MS, and Wright

jazz: and Brown; and Burley; during the Chicago Renaissance; and Davis; documentary about; and Hansberry; and the Harlem Renaissance; historical forms of; and Parks; pioneers of; and Terkel; and Ward

John Reed Clubs. See JRC Johnson, Fenton: death of; influence of; in journals; life of; as a member of IWP; as a member of the FWP; as a member of the South Side Writers Group; themes in the work of; works of

Johnson, Fenton, works of: African Nights; “Banjo Player, The”; Daily Grind, The; “Ethiopian’s Song, The”; “Harlem: The Black City”; “Jubal”; Little Drowning, A; “Minister, The”; Songs of the Soil; “Tired”; “To An Afro-American Maiden”; Visions of the Dusk

Johnson, James Weldon: influence of; as a member of LAW; as a reviewer; reviews of; role of, in Harlem Renaissance

Johnson, John

Johnson, John H.

JRC (John Reed Clubs)

language: and Blakely; and Brooks; and Burley; and Davis; and Mencken; and Parks; and Walker; and Wright

Larsen, Nella

LAW (League of American Writers): and the Chicago Renaissance; collapse of; as a Leftist organization; members of

League of American Writers. See LAW

Lee, Ulysses

Lee, Walter

Left Front

Liberator

Lindsay, Vachel

Little Black Sambo

Lochard, Metz

Los Angeles, CA

Madison, WI

Malcolm X

“Man Who Lived Underground, The” (Wright): as a career turning point; comparison of, to other works; in Eight Men; influence of; origin of; as protest realism

Martin, Sallie

Maxwell, William J.

McKay, Claude: and the Harlem Renaissance; and the Left; and Liberator; in New York City; poetry of

Memphis, TN

Memphis Minnie

Messenger

Mexican Americans

Michigan Chronicle

Mikado (Gilbert and Sullivan)

Minus, Marian: biography of; and New Challenge; in the South Side Writers Group; at the University of Chicago

Minus, Marian, works of: “Another Winter”; “Girl, Colored”; “Fine Line, The”; “Half Bright”; “If Tom Were Only Here”; “Lucky Man”; “Mr. Oscar Goes to Market”; “Negro as a Consumer, The”; “Present Trends in Negro Literature”; “Twice in His Lifetime”

modernism

Monroe, Harriet

Motley, Archibald

Motley, Willard: and the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Chicago Defender; and the Chicago School of Sociology; critics of; and the FWP; life of; and the Negro Digest; as part of the second wave of the Chicago Renaissance; and the Wright school of novelists; and Yerby

Motley, Willard, works of: “I Discover I’m a Negro”; Knock on Any Door; Let No Man Write My Epitaph; Let Noon Be Fair; “Negro Art in Chicago”; We Fished All Night

Mullen, Bill

murder: in Chicago; in literature; in the press

musicians: American Federation of; in Chicago; and jive; in John Reed Clubs; literature about; the 306 Group; white and black

Music of Black Americans, The (Southern)

National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM)

National Negro Congress

National Negro Publishers Association

Native Son (Wright): and Attaway; as a Book of the Month Club selection; and Bookshelf; and Brooks; and Brown; and Communism; comparisons to Black Boy; criticisms of; and the Defender; film version of; history of; and the JRC; and Knock on Any Door; and music; and The Outsider; and the School of Sociology; similarities to A Raisin in the Sun; stage version of; success of; and Trumbull Park; and Ward

naturalism

Negro Digest: authors published in; history of; issues of

Negro in Illinois Project

Negro Novel in America, The (Bone)

“Negro Press in America’s War Effort, The” (Barnett)

Negro Quarterly

Negro Story

Negro Units

Negro World

Nemiroff, Robert

New Anvil

New Challenge: change of name of; and the Chicago Renaissance; Marxist leaning of; seminal issue of; special issue of

New Negro Renaissance: artists associated with; and Behold A Cry; and the Chicago Renaissance; music of; origin of

New York City

New York Post

New York Public Library

New York Times Book Review

NNPA (Negro Newspaper Publishers Association)

novel: costume; historical

Park, Robert

Parks, Gordon

Parks, Gordon, works of: Arias in Silence; Born Black; Camera Portraits ; Choice of Weapons, A; Eyes with Winged Thoughts; Flash Photography; Flavio; Glimpses Toward Infinity; Gordon Parks: The Man and His Camera; Half Past Autumn; Hungry Heart: A Memoir, A; Learning Tree, The; Moments Without Proper Names; “No Love”; Shannon; Star for Noon, A; To Smile in Autumn; Voices in the Mirror; Whispers of Intimate Things

Petry, Ann

Phylon

playwrights

Poitier, Sidney

popular fiction

Popular Front: and the AFL; in Chicago; critical realism in the; cultural institutions of the; launch of the; in literature; opinions on the; racial boundaries in the; struggles within the

popular writer

poverty: and Davis; and Hansberry; and music; in novels; in photography; in poetry; and the South Side Writers Group; and Walker; and Wright

protest fiction

protest novels

Pullman porters

race consciousness

race pride

racism: and Blood on the Forge; and Bonner; and Brooks; and capitalism; as a common theme; confrontation of; and Danner; and Davis; and Durham; and F. Johnson; and Hansberry; and Hawaii; and J. Johnson; and Minus; and Motley; newspaper coverage of; and Parks; and Sengstacke; and sexism; in the South; and Walker; and Ward; and Wright; and Yerby

Randall, Dudley

Reconstruction

Red Summer

“Richard Wright’s Blues” (Ellison)

romance, historical

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Rosenwald Fund

Sage

Sandburg, Carl: influence of; role of, in earlier Chicago Renaissance; style of; themes of

Sands, Diana

Saxton, Alexander

Schuyler, George

Scottsboro

Scottsboro boys

screenplay

Sengstacke, John: death of; and the Defender; relationship with Flora; and the Woodville Times

Shaw, Arnold

Sinclair, Upton

sixties

Soul Stirrers, the

South Side Chicago: and the Abraham Lincoln Center; and the ANP; and Bronzeville; and the Chicago Defender; community of; connections outside of; cultural circles of; and Defenderland; and JRC; music of; and Negro Story; newspapers of; play productions in; politicians of; and the Provident Medical Center; and race pride; residents of; and the School of Sociology; and the South Side Writers Group; as a subject for art

South Side Community Center

South Side Writers Group; history of; leader of; members of; politics of; themes of; ties to black magazines

Staple Singers, the

steel mills: in Chicago; in cinema; workers of

Steichen, Edward

Stein, Gertrude

Steinbeck, John

stockyards

Street in Bronzeville, A (Brooks): content of; in Blacks; influence of; in Selected Poems; publishing of; reviews of

Tampa Red

Terkel, Studs

theater: and Barnett; big bands in; and Big White Fog; and the FTP; and Hansberry; and Hymn to the Rising Sun; and Our Lan’; success of

Third World Press

Tiger’s Eye

Toomer, Jean

Trade Union Unity League (TUUL)

Turpin, Waters

TUUL (Trade Union Unity League)

12 Million Black Voices (Wright): goals of; history of; reviews of; style of; themes in

Uncle Tom’s Children (Wright): and the Big White Fog; black manhood in; influence of; relation of, to Communism; reviews of; social problems in

Universal Negro Improvement Association

University of Chicago: blacks studying at; and Bland; and Brooks; and Brown; and Browning; and Johnson; and Johnson H. Johnson; and Minus; School of Sociology at; and Walker; and Wright; and Yerby

urban life: as defined by the Chicago School of Sociology; in literature; switch to; as a theme

Village Voice

Vogue

voice: and Brooks; and Davis; and Durham; and Hughes; and Johnson; and music; in newspapers; and the South Side Writers Group; use of, in literature; and Walker

Walker, Margaret; and the ANP; and the Chicago Renaissance; and Davis; and the Defender; and the FWP; and the IWP; life of; literature of; moving of; music and; and the South Side Writers Group; and Wright; and the writing workshop; and Yerby

Walker, Margaret, works of: “At the Lincoln Monument”; “Ballad for Phillis Wheatley”; “Ballad of the Free, The”; “Birmingham”; “Delta”; “Epitaph for My Father”; “Epitaph to My Father”; “Fanfare, Coda, and Finale”; “For Andy Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney”; “For Malcolm X”; “For My People”; For My People; “For Paul Laurence Dunbar”; “How I Told My Child About Race”; How I Wrote Jubilee; “I Want to Write”; Jubilee; “Lineage”;

Walker, Marget, works of (continued) “Molly Means”; “October Journey”; October Journey; “Old Age”; “On Being Female, Black, and Free”; “Papa Chicken”; Prophets for a New Day; Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius; “Since 1619”; “Sit-Ins”; “Solace”; “Southern Song”; “Street Demonstration”; This is My Century; “Today”; “What to Become of Us”; “Whores”

Ward, Theodore: life of; as a member of the FTP; as a member of the FWP; as a member of the South Side Writers Group; in the Negro Digest; plays of; role of, in Chicago Renaissance

Ward, Theodore, works of: Big White Fog; “Candle in the Wind”; Daubers, The; Deliver The Goods; “John Brown”; Our Lan’; “Shout Hallelujah”; “Sick and Tiahd”; “Sick and Tired”; “Throwback”; “Whole Hog or Nothing”

Washington: and the ANP; black pilots in; and Bonner; Harlem Renaissance writers in; and Holmes; and Hughes; and the LAW; major venues in; March on; and Parks; and Payne; and Sengstacke; and Ward; writers in

Washington, Booker T.

Washington, Mary Helen

Waters, Muddy

weapons

Wells, Ida B.

West, Dorothy: acquaintances of; as an editor; as a part of the Chicago Renaissance

White, Walter

White critics

white writers: advantages of; in Chicago; as critics; relations of, with black writers

Whitman, Walt

Williamson, Sonny Boy

Wirth, Louis

Woman’s Day

Woodson, Carter G.

Woodville Times

World War II: and Attaway; Black Press during; and the CPUSA; and Ebony; end of; literature about; and Motley; music during; segregation during; and Ward; and Yerby

Wright, Richard: and Abbott’s Monthly; and Attaway; and Barnett; and Behold A Cry; and Big White Fog; biography of; and the Black Arts Movement; and the Book-of-the-Month Club; and Brown; and Browning; and Burley; and the Chicago Defender; and the Chicago Renaissance; and the Chicago School of Sociology; and Communism; comparisons of; critical acclaim of; and Danner; and Davis; and the Defender; and Ellison; and F. Johnson; and Gayden; and the Great Migration; and Hansberry; influence of; and the IWP; and the JRC; life of; and Minus; movement of; move of, to France; and music; and Negro Digest; and Negro Story; and New Challenge; opinions of; and Park; and Parks; and protest realism; and the second wave of the Chicago Renaissance; and Southside Chicago; and the South Side Writers Group; and the South Side Writers Project; and theater; and UTC; and Walker; and Ward; and Whitman; and Yerby

Wright, Richard, works of: 12 Million Black Voices (see 12 Million Black Voices); “Big Boy leaves Home”; Black Boy/American Hunger (see Black Boy/American Hunger); Black Hope; Black Power; “Blueprint for Negro Writing”; “Bright and Morning Star”; Cesspool; Color Curtain, The; “Down by the Riverside”; Eight Men Out; “Ethics of Living Jim Crow, The”; “Father’s Law, A”; “Fire and Cloud”; “How Bigger Was Born”; “I Tried to Be a Communist”; “Jackal, The”; Lawd Today; “Long Black Song”; Long Dream, The; “Man Who Killed a Shadow, The”; “Man Who Lived Underground, The” (see “Man Who Lived Underground, The”); “Man Who Saw The Flood, The”; “Man Who Was Almost a Man, The”; Native Son (see Native Son); Outsider, The; Pagan Spain; Savage Holiday; Uncle Tom’s Children (see Uncle Tom’s Children); “Voodoo of Hell’s Half Acre, The”; Rite of Passage

Yerby, Frank: in journals; life of; as a member of the FWP; novels of; reviews of; role of, in Chicago Renaissance; themes of

Yerby, Frank, works of: Dahomean, The; Darkness at Ingraham’s Crest, A; Fairoaks; Foxes of Harrow, The; Goat Song; Golden Hawk, The; Griffin’s Way; “Health Card”; “Homecoming, The”; “How and Why I Write the Costume Novel”; Judas, My Brother; “My Brother Went to College”; Odor of Sanctity, An; Old God’s Laugh, The; “Roads Going Down”; Saracen Blade, The; Serpent and The Staff, The; Speak Now; “Tents of Shem, The”; Thunder of God, The; Vixens, The; “White Magnolias”; Woman Called Fancy, A