Abbott, Robert S., 123–4
Aborigines (Australia), 490–1
Abt, John, 508, 510, 524, 745 n 15
Acheson, Dean, 389
Ackner, Brian, 502–5, 508, 512, 533, 743 n 11, 745 n 23, 748 n 32
Actors’ Equity, 82, 116–18, 281, 460, 727 n 33, 760 n 12
Adam, Ronald, 167
Adlam, Tommy, 218
Adler, Larry, 375
Afinogenov, Alexander, 185, 629 n 3
Africa, ER and Pauli’s 1936 trip to, 204–6
see also African culture; Council on African Affairs
Africa Looks Up (film), see My Song Goes Forth
ER’s interest in and views on, 149, 170, 616 n 54, 623 n 30, 624, 676 n 39, 731 n 18
PR’s interest in and views on, 72, 129, 170–81, 198–204, 623 n 30, n 32, n 36, 624 n 38, 625 n 44, 635–6 n 42, 721 n 32
films with African themes (1936), 202–4
nationalism rejected, see black nationalism; Robeson, Paul origins of PR’s interest, 170–1
special destiny, 175
“unique essence” of African culture, 200, 201
Norman Leys’s views on, 199–202
Sanders of the River (film) and, 178–82
African Journey (ER), 293, 412
African languages, 170, 173–4, 715 n 3
African music and songs, 121, 129, 176, 179
African National Congress, 340, 341, 543
African nationalism, 172–5, 201–2, 635–6 n 42; see also black nationalism; Robeson, Paul
Afro-American, The, 65, 361, 385, 443, 447, 459, 710 n 25, 726 n 31, 728, n 38
Afro-American Heritage Association, 726 n 28
Agate, James, 114, 136, 193, 203
Akron Pros, 34
Albany, New York, cancellation of concert in (1947), 319–20
Alda, Frances, 82
Aldridge, Amanda Ira, 91, 114, 597 n 12, 662 n 34
Aldridge, Ira, xii, 91, 274–5, 492, 543; 597 n 12, 607 n 36
Alexander, Raymond Pace, 578 n 8
All African People’s Conference (1958), 471, 731 n 18
All-American football teams, 22, 760 n 8
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill)
London production of (1933), 165, 167, 599 n 22, 621 n 24
Provincetown Players production, 55–9, 63–7, 588 n 47
black reaction, 65–6
Essie on, 66
O’Neill on casting of PR, 58
opposition to production, 57–9, 63, 64
permission to employ child actors denied, 63
PR on, 66
rehearsals, 63
publication of, 56
Alpha Phi Alpha, 41, 376–7, 409, 455–6, 457–673 n 23, 708 n 15, 726 n 24
Amado, Jorge, 406
Amateur Players (1920), 43
A.M.E. Zion Church (African Methodist Episcopal), see Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
American-African Affairs Association, 333
American Civil Liberties Union, 366, 371, 374, 379, 385
American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, 430
American Crusade, 306, 307, 673 n 26
American Federation of Labor (AFL), 281
American Labor Party, 392, 430
American Legion, 366, 371, 375
American Missionary Association, 35
American Peace Crusade, 704 n 38
American Scholar, The, 281
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 324, 325
Ancient Mariner, The, 59
Anderson, Eddie (“Rochester”), 259, 260, 261
Anderson, Garland, 61, 136, 162
Anderson, Marian, 56, 116, 251, 300, 653 n 39, 654 n 51
Anderson, Maxwell, 230
Anderson, Sherwood, 74, 644 n 41, 645 n 41
Andrews, Joseph (Andy), 152, 476, 478, 496, 617 n 61
Angus, Donald, 80, 84, 93, 593–4 n 31
anti-Communism
among blacks, 226–7
see also McCarthyism
anti-lynching, see lynchings
anti-Semitism, in the Soviet Union, see Soviet Union: anti-Semitism in
Apollo (Harlem theater), 177
Appearances (Anderson), 61
Appell, Don, 439
Aptheker, Herbert, 510, 524, 540
Arens, Leslie, 440–1
Armitage, Teresa, 101
Armstrong, Louis, 625 n 46, 716 n 5
Arnold, Flora, 91
Aronson, James, 442, 464, 466, 540
Arts Theater Club, 192
Ascher, Charles, 53
Ashcroft, Peggy, xii, 134–6, 138–43, 151, 160, 242, 451, 466, 478–9, 496–7, 507, 543, 549, 611 n 19, 612 n 26, 613 n 34, 614 n 38, 618–19 n 9, 733 n 33, 734 n 35
Associated Negro Press, 471, 481, 492, 513
Astaire, Adele, 73
Atkinson, Brooks, 159, 192, 236, 602 n 46, 648 n 11
Attasheva, Pera, 631 n 14, 742 n 3
Australia, 1960 concert tour of, 487–91
Avery Institute, 35
Azikiwe, Nnamdi, 171, 529–30, 669 n 2, 743 n 7, 756 n 20
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 176, 438
Bailey, Helen, 509
Bailey, Mildred, 285
Baker, George, 218
Baker, George Pierce, 166
Baker, Josephine, 93, 218, 598 n 18, 614–15 n 43, 754 n 8
Baker, Newton D. (Secretary of War), 32
Balcon, Michael, 231
“Ballad for Americans,” 236–8, 240, 259, 327, 647 n 2
“Ballad of Uncle Sam, The,” 236
Ballinger, William, 205
Bandung conference (1955), 431, 434, 444
Bankhead, Tallulah, 88
Barkley, Alben, 337
Barnett, Claude A., 168, 226–7, 481, 718 n 16, 732 n 18
Barsky, Ed, 436, 439, 496, 532, 540
Barsky, Vita, 540
Bartholomew, Marshall, 78
Baruch, Alfred (“Barry”), 241–2, 246, 286–7, 358
Basalik, 191, 192, 193, 632 n 20
baseball, major-league, desegregation of, 282–3, 360
Basie, Count, 177, 285, 626 n 47
Bass, Charlotta, 321, 376, 388, 398, 401, 405
Bastian, Walter N., 396
Beach, Sylvia, 92, 109, 598 n 14
Beaverbrook, Lord, 115, 233–4, 452, 465, 477, 479, 730 n 6
Beavers, Louise, 261
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 158
Beecher, Henry Ward, 35
Beggar’s Opera, The (Gay), 88
Belafonte, Harry, 391, 467, 547, 549, 730 n 6
Belasco, David, 83
Belfrage, Cedric, 449, 450, 465, 511, 513, 721–2 n 37, 742 n 2, 748 n 32, 751, n 50, 756 n 18, 759 n 44
Bellamy, Ralph, 460
Bengal, Ben, 223
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood, 466
Bennett, Arnold, 89
Bentley, Gladys, 93
Bercovici, Konrad, 76, 97, 592 n 20, n 21
Bercovici, Mirel, 76, 97, 567 n 4, 592–3 n 20, n 21
Bercovici, Naomi, 76, 97, 109, 592 n 20
Bercovici, Rada, 76, 97, 567 n 4, 592–3 n 20, n 21
Berlin
1930 visit to, 132–3
blockade of, 325
Berry, Abner, 346
Best, Joseph, 202, 203, 636 n 45
Beste, Vernon, 224
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 255, 259, 285, 322, 333, 344, 392, 667 n 11, 673 n 23, 674 n 26, 681 n 16, 684 n 42, 687 n 19
Bibb, Joseph D., 256
Biddle University, 10
Big Fella (film), 207–8
Bilbo, Theodore, 318
Billings, Warren K., 248–9
Bill of Rights Conference (1949), 382
Birkett, Norman, 160
Birth of a Nation (film), 3–4
Black, Cupe (“Cupid”), 23
black Americans
alternatives available to, 172
art’s role in the advance of, 71–2
culturally derived “racial traits” of, 173, 200
election of 1948 and, 325–6
labor unions and, 249–50, 255–6, 309, 310–11
Gertrude Stein on, 92
Westernized (assimilationist), 172–4, 199, 624 n 36, n 38; see also black churches; black culture; black nationalism; civil rights movement; racism
Black Boy (Tully and Dazey), 103–4, 596 712, 601–2 n 46, n 47, n 2
black caucuses in labor unions, 310–11
black churches, 226–7, 310, 375–6, 410–11
black culture, 173
Communist Party and, 250
PR on, 169
see also African culture; black nationalism
“Black Mafia,” 312, 666 n 8; see also Johnson, Ellsworth
Black Majesty (James), 196–7
Black Muslim movement, 310, 527–8, 755 n 16; see also black nationalism; Malcolm X; Muhammad, Elijah
black nationalism, 172–5, 201–2, 309, 310, 575 n 24, 623–4 n 36; see also Black Muslim movement; Garvey, Marcus
Blackpool, performance of Voodoo in, 48
Black Progress (ER), 154, 166, 242, 618 n 3
Blaikely, J. B., 481
Blake, James Hubert (“Eubie”), 45, 51, 549, 582 n 28
Bledsoe, Geraldine (Maimie) Neale, 27–30, 38, 40–1, 45–6, 50, 549, 575–6 n 26, n 29, 583 n 30, 583–4 n 7, 734 n 33, 763 n 25
Bledsoe, Julius (“Jules”), 73, 81, 105, 111, 113, 594 n 34
Blitzstein, Marc, 261, 421, 438, 677 n 39
Block, Harry, 102–3
Bloor, Ella Reeve, 107, 396, 644 n 37
Bluford, Lucile, 256
Boas, Franz, 3
Bohlen, Chip, 407
Boles, John, 239
Boiling, Hattie, 41, 42, 147, 167, 195, 579 n 18, 691 n 49
Bomb, The (Harris), 95
Book of American Negro Spirituals, The (J. W. and J. R.Johnson), 81
Bookstein, Isidore, 319
Borderline (film), 130–2, 260, 609 n 5, n 10, n 11
Boudin, Leonard, 425, 432, 433, 450, 452, 463, 714 n 46, 716 n 7, 717 n 9, 719 n 18
Boulton, Agnes (Mrs. Eugene O’Neill), 62, 75
Bowden, Marie, 537
Braden, Anne, 447
Bradford, Roark, 237–8
Bradley, Thomas, 377
Bransten, Louise, 244, 280, 532
Bricktop, 145, 598 n 18, 614 n 42, 618 n 4
Bridges, Harry, 285, 311, 399, 675 n 34, 706 n 43
British Actors’ Equity, 449
Brittain, Vera, 205
Bromley, Bruce, 120
Brooklyn Academy of Music, 414
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 540
Brooks, Louise, 74
Broun, Heywood, 56, 64, 74, 79, 86, 102
Broun, Ruth Hale, see Hale, Ruth
Browder, Earl, 216, 219, 247–9, 259, 285, 293–4, 301–2, 332, 419, 420, 421
Browder, Raissa, 285, 667 n 12
Brown, Earl, 343, 379, 395, 693 n 61
Brown, Edgar G., 344
Brown, Ivor, 90
Brown, J. Douglas, 13, 17, 567 n 5
Brown, Lawrence (Larry), 49, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 86, 88, 98–100, 105, 106, 112, 113, 114, 116, 120, 146, 150, 151, 154, 156, 157, 164–6, 192, 195, 208, 222, 238, 240, 244, 245, 267, 292, 293, 297, 316, 327, 338, 350, 369, 463, 467, 470, 471, 482, 487, 491, 500, 505, 508, 545, 547, 594 n 34, 612 n 27, 617 n 61, n 66, 650 n 26, 672 n 17, 678 n 2, 680 n 11, 726 n 6, 734 n 35
as accompanist and arranger, 78–83, 85, 98, 112–15, 156, 240, 302, 338, 467, 470, 487, 729 n 6
last visit with PR, 508
Brown, Lloyd L., 393, 408–9, 417, 437, 439, 448, 458, 460, 463, 464, 466, 513, 524, 538, 544, 545, 548, 550, 716 n 4, 726 n 31, 761–2 n 15
Brown, Oscar C., Sr., 11, 12, 456, 578 n 14, 714 n 47, 722 n 3
Browne, Maurice, 122, 133–6, 138–9, 607 n 36, 612 n 29
Browning, Harold, 44, 48–9, 51, 118
Brown v. Board of Education, 429–31, 446
Brownsville, Texas, riot, 4
Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), 130, 131, 609 n 9, 612 n 26
Buch Clinic (GDR), 514, 516–18, 520–1, 751–2 n 50
Buck, Pearl, 190, 285, 294, 313, 356, 704 n 34
Buckle, Desmond, 338, 340, 351, 685 n 7
Budapest, 1929 visit to, 121
Budd, A. B., 65
Bunche, Ralph, 248, 651 n 33, 726 n 31, 745–6 n 23
Bunker, Ellsworth, 461, 462, 472
Burge, Louise, 240
Burke, James, 21
Burke, Marie, 114, 449, 450, 481, 543
Burleigh, Harry T., 77, 80, 170, 594 n 34
Burley, Dan, 426
Burnham, Louis, 258, 392–3, 400–1, 692 n 51
Burroughs, Margaret, 456
Bush, Alan, 543, 603 n 6, 650–1 n 29
Bustill, Cyrus, 5
Bustill, Gertrude, 5, 8, 566 n 3
Bustill, Joseph Cassey, 5
Bustill family, 5, 8–9, 566 n 2, 568–9 n 14
Butt, Sir Alfred, 77–8, 84, 113, 115–17
Butts, Tony, 162
“By an’ By,” 80
Bynner, Witter, 74
Cable, Ted, 290
Cacchione, Peter V., 282
California, 308–9
1957 concerts in, 448–9, 722 n 4
1958 concerts in, 454–5
1965 trip to, 530–1
see also Peace Arch concert
Cameron, Angus, 675 n 33, 726 n 29, 742 n 3
Campanella, Roy, 396
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 44, 48, 49, 50–1, 91, 118
Camp Wo-Chi-Ca, 254, 649 n 17, 653 n 47
Canada
permission to travel to, 433
PR prevented from going to (1952), 399–400, 706 n 43, 719 n 22
Cap and Skull honor society, 26
Cardozo, Francis Lewis, 35–6
Cardozo, Isaac Nuñez, 35
Carlson, Col. Evans, 304
Carmichael, Harry, 483
Castillo, Fernando, 216–17, 220, 640 n 15, 695 n 16
Castro, Fidel, 492, 513, 740 n 66, 749 n 39
Cather, Willa, 281
Catlett, Lester, 401
Cayton, Lee, 244, 310, 426, 531, 532, 701 n 17
Cayton, Revels, 244, 250, 309–11, 315, 369, 370, 380, 391, 417, 420, 426, 435, 438, 448, 457, 531, 532, 549, 669 n 27, 672 n 17, 675 n 31, n 34, 677 n 43, 701 n 17
influence on PR, 310
Central Trades and Labor Council, 281
Chakravarty, P., 471–2
Chaliapin, Fyodor, 78, 82, 110, 115, 120
Challenge (magazine), 637 n 52
Chamberlain, Neville, 214, 233, 235
Chandler, Charles, 290
Chapin, Katherine Garrison (Mrs. Francis Biddle), 240
Chaplin, Charlie, 89, 696 n 21
Charlot’s Revue, 88
“Cheelai” (“March of the Volunteers”) 653 n 43
Chervachidze, Prince, 163, 165
Chervachidze, Yolande, see Jackson, Yolande
Chester, Bill, 402
Chiang Kai-shek, 341, 347, 489
Chicago
1949 concerts in, 375–6
1958 concerts in, 456
Chicago Crusader, 459–60
Childress, Alice, 393, 425, 530–1, 703 n 29, n 30, 710 n 24
China, 174–5, 461, 541, 644 n 35, 653 n 39, 760 n 5
Chinese culture and relationship to Africa, 174–5, 188, 201–2
Communist victory in, 341, 384
Chinn, May, 33, 576 n 4, 592 n 17
Churchill, Winston, 266, 299, 303, 316, 322, 672 n 18
“Iron Curtain” speech, 303–4
Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 311, 317, 321, 337–8, 361, 375, 379, 430, 681 n 20
civil rights movement, see Robeson, Paul: civil rights movement and
Clark, Joseph, 432
Clark, Ramsey, 546–7
Clef Club Orchestra, 43
Clifford, Clark, 324
Clurman, Harold, 271
Coates, Albert, 161, 186, 629 n 6
Cock o’ the World (musical), 231
Cohen, Herbert E., 545
Cohn, Roy, 412
Cold War, xiii, 325, 338, 341, 407, 429
Cole, Dora (Norman), 43, 588 n 48
Coleman, Robert, 104, 159, 277
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 91, 116, 227
Collegiate Chorale, 267–8
colonialism, 180, 296–301, 303–4, 307, 434
Columbia Artists Management, 338
Columbia Law Review, 53
Columbia University Law School, 30, 41, 43, 53–4
Committee for the Negro in the Arts, 400
Communist Party, U.S.A. (CPUSA), 230, 247–50, 253, 255, 294, 301, 302, 307–8, 309–11, 317, 318, 322, 324–5, 327–9, 337–8, 363, 367–8, 370–73, 378, 379–80, 382–3, 397, 401, 411, 412, 416, 418–24, 430, 433, 451, 454–5, 458–9, 509–10, 647 n 3, 669 n 27, 675 n 31, 692 n 59, 692 n 55, 712 n 31, n 33, 717 n 14, 720 n 27, 726 n 29, 747 n 30, 760 n 10
1965 California trip of PR and, 531
“Americanization” of, 247
attempt to tone down PR’s rhetoric, 382–3, 423
black culture and, 250
blacks and, 309–10, 675 n 31, 712 n 31, n 33, 713 n 38, 721 n 32, 726, n 29
divorce of PR from ER opposed, 294
“Duclos Letter” and, 301–2
election of 1948 and, 322, 324–5
indictment of leaders of (1948), 333–4
labor unions and, 249–50
“misuse” of PR by, 380
National Negro Congress (NNC) and, 247, 248
on Nazi-Soviet Pact, 247–9
Peekskill events (1949) and, 368
PR’s disillusion with, rumors of, 415
PR on legality of, 318
PR’s (non)membership in, 301, 307–8, 418
PR’s relationship to, 328–30, 415, 418–24, 458–9, 712 n 31, n 33
Smith Act indictments (1951), 397
Smith Act trial of leaders of (1949), 337–8, 355, 358, 363–4, 372, 379, 397
Confucius, 174
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 247, 249, 250, 252, 255–6, 266, 268, 281, 282, 294, 322, 363, 652 n 36
Conjure Man Dies, The (Fisher), 33
Connelly, Marc, 285
Connor, Edric, 686 n 12, 725 n 16, 750 n 48
Constantine (cricket player), 116
Cook, Corinne (Wright), 42, 147–8, 245
Cook, George Cram (“Jig”), 55
Cook, Nilla, 61
Cook, Will Marion, 44, 48, 608 n 41
Cooper, Diana (Lady Duff Gordon), 93, 136
Cooper, Gladys, 89
Copenhagen, 1949 concerts in, 350
Coplon, Judith, 383–4
Coppicus, F. C., 125
Cornell, Katharine, 100
Corning, Erastus, II, 319
Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 381, 699 n 1
Council on African Affairs (CAA), 266, 284–5, 296–9, 304, 338, 340–1, 357, 361, 375, 388, 390, 392, 400, 437, 669 n 2, 670 n 6, 673 n 23, 683 n 35, 692 n 51, 693–4 n 62, 696 n 21
branded Communist, 297, 347, 414, 441
conflict between PR and Yergan, 330–3, 346, 684 n 42
formation and goals, 257–8, 655–6 n 55
Coward, Noel, 88, 144, 146, 147, 281, 614 n 40, 615 n 48
Cowley, Malcolm, 61
Cox, Gene, 373
Craig’s restaurant, 75
Cripps, Stafford, 213
Crockett, George W., Jr., 372, 685 n 4
Crowder, Henry, 158
Crum, Bartley, 306
Crump, Boss, 326
Cullen, Countee, 74, 90, 96, 100, 171, 591–2 n 16, 622–3 n 27
cultural pluralism (PR on), 172–3
Cunard, Nancy, 158–60, 191, 193, 618 n 5
Cunningham, Gertrude, 566 n 2, 759 n 1
Current, Gloucester, 307
Czechoslovakia, 120–1, 297–8, 350–1, 472, 689 n 38
Dabney, Wendell P., 159
Danis, Sydney, 364–5
Dark Sands (Jericho) (film), 209, 210, 638 n 63
Darlington, W. A., 477
Darr, Rev. John Whittier, Jr., 355–6
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), 251
Davenport, Robert, 19, 27, 575 n 25
Davenport, Sadie, see Shelton, Sadie
David Goliath (film), see Proud Valley, The
Davidoff, Bess, 107
Davidoff, Harry, 107
Davies, Lloyd G., 376–7, 490–1
Davis, Angela, 546
Davis, Benjamin, Jr., 238, 243, 285, 323, 324, 331, 346–8, 363, 398, 423, 442, 448, 454, 513, 525, 666 n 8, 670 n 6, 671 n 16, 674 n 26, 675 n 33, 688 n 30, 691 n 49, 692 n 51, 726 n 31
and CPUSA, 257, 283–4, 310, 340, 368, 379–80, 420–2, 510
friendship with PR, 230, 264, 424, 438, 458, 463, 524, 676 n 36, 710 n 19, 718 n 15
and Eslanda Robeson, 294
and Smith Act, 429–30, 685 n 4, 713 n 38
and Soviet Union, 208, 221, 383
Davis, John P., 247–8, 251, 252, 652 n 34
Davis, Ossie, 528, 547, 761 n 12
Davison, Harold, 452, 465, 466, 472, 506, 508, 509, 511, 524, 748 n 32, 762 n 17
Dawson, William L., 280, 701 n 20
Dazey, Frank, 103, 601 n 45, 602 n 47, 603–4 n 10
Deeter, Jasper, 581 n 23, 662 n 34
Delany, Claire, 102
Delany, Hubert T., 102, 333, 681 n 16
Delta Sigma Theta, 41
Demarest, William H. S., 23, 26
DeMille, Cecil B., 101
Dempsey, Jack, 52
Dennis, Eugene, 206–7, 322, 383, 398, 418, 420, 421, 422, 424
Dennis, Peggy, 206–7, 418, 421, 422
De Organizer (opera), 230
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), 75
Dessalines, Jean Jacques, 190
Dewey, Thomas E., 53, 334, 367, 370, 371, 377
Diamond, Freda, 107–8, 109, 126, 151, 164, 179, 198, 220, 241–2, 246, 247, 268, 277, 286–7, 292, 314, 339, 349, 358, 417, 436, 439, 440, 463, 467, 481, 487, 500, 501, 524, 538, 544, 548, 549, 664 n 45, 676 n 36, 677 n 41, 678 n 2, 686 n 10, 695 n 16, 700 n 12, 701 n 17, 720 n 24
living arrangements of PR with, 241
marriage to Alfred (“Barry”) Baruch, 241, 242
relationship with PR, 286–7, 339–40
Diamond, Ida (Mama), 107–8, 603 n 54
Dickerson, Earl, 324, 518, 528, 655 n 55, 668 n 20
Dies, Martin, 261
Dies Committee, 238–9
Dirksen, Everett M., 319
Donat, Robert, 181
Don’t You Want to Be Free? (Hughes), 231, 643 n 31
Dorfman, Ania, 128
Douglas, William O., 53, 443, 463
Douglas, Winston, 12, 570 n 22, 571 n 29
Douglass, Frederick, 145, 357, 376, 434, 485
Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 5
Downer Street St. Luke A. M. E. Zion Church, 9
Downes, Olin, 366
Draper, Muriel, 187, 338, 591 n 13
Draper, Paul, 78
Dreiser, Theodore, 74, 281, 285, 603–4 n 10, 652 n 34, 652 n 35, 665 n 3
Driberg, Tom, 449, 465, 466, 467
Du Bois, Shirley, see Graham, Shirley
Du Bois, W.E.B., 4, 26, 27, 56, 66, 71, 80–1, 100, 137–8, 170, 173, 226, 257, 281, 306, 321, 323, 325, 331, 333, 334, 341, 345, 346, 357, 383, 392–3, 396, 398, 401, 406, 442, 457, 473, 500, 501, 505, 508, 523, 524, 525, 527, 534, 673 n 25, n 26, 680 n 12, 681 n 16, 684 n 42, n 45, 688 n 26, 692 n 51, 703 n 27, n 28, 704 n 36, 705 n 41, 717 n 12, 732 n 22, 734 n 34, n 36, 746 n 25, 755 n 14
1950 senate campaign, 392
on All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 66
antilynching campaign and (1946), 306
Council on African Affairs and, 331
cultural elitism in views of, 72
death of, 523
Freedom magazine and, 392, 393
“Duclos Letter,” 301–2, 671 n 15
Dukes, Ashley, 89
Dulles, John Foster, 297, 377, 431, 434–5, 453, 472
Duncan, Augustin, 43, 48, 53, 67
Dungee, Roscoe C., 333–4
Dunham, Katherine, 181
Dunnigan, Alice, 375
Duranty, Walter, 162
Durr, Clifford J., 359
Dutch Treat Club, 82–3
Dutt, R. Palme, 225
Dwight, Mabel, 78
Ealing Studios, 231
East Berlin, 461
1963 trip to, 514–18
see also East Germany
East Germany (GDR), 483–4, 485, 486–7, 493, 498, 542, 543, 727 n 34, 738 n 55, 743 n 6, 760 n 12; see also Buch Clinic; East Berlin
Eastman, Max, 95–6
Ebony (magazine), 394, 395, 460, 544, 727 n 32
Edinburgh University, 193–4
Egelloc Club, 82
Ehrenburg, Ilya, 469
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 253, 404, 405–6, 429, 444, 446, 728 n 39
Eisenstein, Sergei, 182–3, 185–7, 189–90, 194, 196, 203–4, 208, 222, 627 n 59, 630 n 14, 631 n 15, 637 n 57
Eitingon, Bess (formerly Rockmore), 55, 162, 623 n 27
Ellerman, Winifred, see Bryher
Ellington, Duke, 176, 231, 285, 625 n 46, 668 n 20, 761 n 12
Elllis, Mary, 79
Emergency Committee to Protest the Peekskill Riot, 367
Emerson, Thomas, 382
Emperor Jones, The (opera), 111
Emperor Jones, The (film), 167–9, 223, 621–2 n 25, 622 n 27
Emperor Jones, The (O’Neill), 53, 75, 121, 580 n 23, 582 n 24, 585 n 14, 585–6 n 15, 587 n 42, 588 n 51, n 52, 592 n 20, 593 n 22 597 n 10, 607 n 34
1939 revival, 228
1940 revival, 240
Berlin production of, 132
Broadway production (1925), 77
first act of, in one-man show (1930), 140, 613 n 35
London production of, 77–8, 83, 89–91
closing, 91
opening, 89
public response, 90
PR on, 168
Provincetown Players production, 59–63, 68, 74, 77
costumes, 60
dress rehearsals, 61
Jimmy Light’s direction, 60
opening, 61
Eneas Africanus (Anderson and Weill), 230, 645 n 41
Enescu, Georges, 76
England, see Great Britain
Epps, Emma, 6, 567 n 4, 568 n 13
Ericson, Hazel (Dodge), 679 n 9
Ethiopian Art Theater, 56
Europe, Lt. James, 32
“Exhortations” (Cook), 608 n 41
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 322, 325, 385, 387, 415, 421
Fallen Angels (Coward), 88
Fancy Free (Houghton), 614 n 35
Fanelli, George M., 367, 369, 370–72, 695 n 19
Fascism, 180, 191, 256, 266, 282, 318, 340, 367, 377, 382, 402, 419; 512; see also Hitler, Adolf; Mussolini, Benito
Fast, Howard, 338, 366, 384, 388, 428, 679 n 11
Faulds, Andrew, 476, 484, 733 n 31
Fauntroy, Rev. James, 756 n 18
Fauset, Jessie, 74
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), xiii, 258, 266, 285, 297, 298, 300–3, 319, 320, 337, 354, 366, 367, 368, 376, 383, 386, 394, 400, 403, 411, 415, 426, 439, 442, 453, 454–5, 463, 484, 522–3, 547, 653–4 n 47, 665, n 47, 666 n 5, 669 n 2, 670–2 n 4–6, n 10, n 12, n 14, n l6–17, n 21, 679 n 7, 680 n 13, 683 n 28, 689 n 41, 694 n 2, 708 n 12, 714 n 48, 716 n 6, 722 n 4, 725 n 21, 726 n 31, 729 n 40, 748 n 37, 750 n 47, 759, n 4; see also Hoover, J. Edgar
on PR’s rumored “takeover” of NAACP, 448, 454
on PR’s status of health, 435, 509, 540, 542, 747 n 27
speculations on ER’s CP membership, 678 n 3, 709 n 18
speculation on PR’s CP membership, 253–4, 280, 301, 317, 327–8, 685 n 2
Feffer, Itzik, 352–4, 417, 690 n 42
Ferrer, José (Joe), 264, 265, 268–9, 278, 286, 288–92, 311–13, 406, 664 n 43, 665 n 3, 670 n 4, 676 n 38, 707 n 5
Fidler, Jimmy, 376
Field, Edith, 298
Field, Frederick V., 298, 670 n 6
Field, Marshall, 299, 300, 318
Fieldston school, 235
film industry, American, 169, 217, 227, 640 n 8
Fire in the Flint (White), 72–3
First Presbyterian Church (Princeton), 567 n 6
First Presbyterian Church of Color (Princeton), 567 n 6
Fisher, Rudolph (“Bud”), 33, 39, 74
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 80
Fitzgerald, Eleanor (Fitzi), 77, 88, 89, 96–7, 622 n 27
Fitzgerald, Ella, 177, 283, 506–7
Flemming, Thomas, 443
Flood, John, 502, 503, 743 n 11, 745 n 13
Flory, Cathern, 456
Flory, Ishmael, 283, 456–7, 713 n 46
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 249, 382–3, 423, 510, 754 n 10
folk music, 176, 178, 218, 438, 632 n 19, 728 n 38
football, PR and
All-American teams, 22
Hall of Fame rejection, 760 n 8, 763 n 21
while at law school, 34
at Rutgers, 19–24, 573 n 9, 760 n 8
benching of PR against Washington and Lee, 22–3
Newport Naval Reserve, game against, 23–4
Southern opponents, 22–3
West Virginia team, game against, 23
white players’ attitudes and behavior toward PR, 20–1, 572 n 5
Forbes-Leith, Major, 82
Forbes-Robertson, Jean, 144, 154–5, 614 n 40
Ford, Joseph, 392
Forman, James, 540
Forsythe, Marian Robeson, 5, 9, 163, 277, 427, 456, 500, 523–4, 528, 535, 538, 539–42, 544, 545–6, 548, 567 n 5, 691 n 49, 733 n 27, 759 n 12, 762 n 17
PR at home of (1966–67), 539–42, 545, 567 n 5, 568 n 9
Forsythe, Paulina, 539, 759 n 1, 762 n 17
Foster, William Z., 252, 302, 322, 383, 396, 419, 421, 422, 437, 444, 448, 454, 652 n 35, 712 n 37, 743 n 8
“Fourteenth Amendment, The” (PR’s senior thesis), 25–6
France, 297
1925 stay in, 91–8
Villefranche, 93–7
Francis, Harry, 465, 491–2, 498, 505–6, 508, 509, 511, 515, 742 n 1, 748 n 31, 749 n 47, 752 n 51, 754 n 8, 755 n 15
Franco, Francisco, 211–12, 213, 318, 489
Frazier, E. Franklin, 374, 377, 378, 655 n 55, 668 n 23, 684 n 39
Free African Society, 5
Freedom (magazine), 392–3, 400–3, 409, 414, 420, 437, 457
Freedomways (magazine), 527–30, 755 n 16, 756 n 17, n 19
Free India movement, 266
Friedman, Milton H., 412, 439, 440, 442, 717 n 12
Fritchman, Stephen, 518, 530, 531, 548, 757 n 22, 723 n 6
Fur and Leather Workers Union, 338, 366, 368, 369, 429, 666 n 4, 655, n 55
Galantiere, Lewis, 92
Gambs, Alexandre, 149
Gandhi, Indira, 464, 547, 727 n 37, 728 n 40
Gardner, Ethel A., 150, 617 n 56
Garland, Walter, 424
Garvey, Marcus, 71, 172, 203, 310, 610 n 16
Garvey, Mrs. Marcus, 192
Gates, John, 419, 420, 423, 680 n 11
Gautier, Théophile, 274–5
Gautier-Vignal, Count Louis, 94
Gay, Katherine, 79
GDR, see East Germany
General Line (film), 190
Genocide Campaign, 398
Georgia Tech, 22
German Democratic Republic, see East
Germany Germany, Nazi, 132–3, 178, 184–5, 233, 298
nonaggression pact with Soviet Union, 231–2, 247, 248, 283
Gerstadt, John, 272–3
Ghana, 485, 492, 493, 501, 508, 737 n 53
Ghosts of Yesterday (film), 49
Gibbs, Wolcott, 278
Gibson, Lydia, 216
Gielgud, John, 138, 197, 507, 543, 620 n 15, 745 n 16
Gillespie, Dizzy, 177, 391, 528, 761 n 12
Gilmore, Virginia, 268
Gilpin, Charles, 43, 53, 57, 61–3, 77, 83, 587 n 42
Gish, Lillian, 138
Glaspell, Susan, 55
Gloag, Helena, 449
“Go Down, Moses,” 80
Goldfarb, Alvin I., 541
Goldman, Emma, 89, 94, 95, 156, 198, 203, 597 n 7, 634 n 35
Gold Rush, The (film), 89
Golden, Bertha and Lillie, 730 n 10
Gollan, John, 513
Gollancz, Victor, 225
Gols i Soler, Joan, 219
Good, Roger, 545
Goodbye Uncle Tom (earlier called Uncle Tom’s Cabin) (ER), 154, 157, 166, 242, 292–3, 617–18 n 3
Goode, Eslanda (Ma) (Essie’s mother), 36–7, 42, 59, 72, 86, 112, 113, 118, 119, 140, 144, 145, 150, 152, 154, 161, 181, 185, 208, 209, 246, 292, 293, 314, 356, 412, 692 n 50
in the Soviet Union, 205–6, 211, 633 n 25
raising PR, Jr., 115, 189, 194, 205, 210–11, 221–2, 235, 633 n 26
Goode, Frank, 36, 185, 208, 470, 629 n 3
Goode, John, Jr., 36, 185, 187, 208, 629 n 3
Goode, John, Sr., 36, 185, 629 n 3
Goode, Sadie, see Shelton, Sadie
Goodlett, Carlton, 513, 723 n 6
Goodman, Benny, 253, 654–5 n 51
Gordon, Lady Duff, see Cooper, Diana
Gould, Mrs. George, 36
Gould, Jay, 54
Gracie Square psychiatric hospital, 532, 535, 539–40, 757 n 28, 758 n 29, n 30, n 37, n 39, n 41
Graham, Frank P., 259
Graham, Shirley (Du Bois), 442, 473, 501, 505, 508, 668 n 23, 682 n 26, 734 n 34
Granger, Lester, 248, 322, 325, 330, 359, 360
Graves, Lem, Jr., 373, 697 n 25
Gray, John, 426, 709 n 16, 713 n 46, 715 n 4
Great Britain (England), 297, 299, 304, 307, 452
1922 trip to, 47–51
1958–59 concerts in, 470, 471, 729 n 4–6, 731 n 16
1960 concerts in, 483
absence of racial prejudice, 87–8
“Let Robeson Sing” campaign, 424–5, 449–50, 724 n 7
see also London
Green, Cora, 52
Green, Paul, 105
Gregory (now Stitt), Leonora (“Pat”), 576 n 28, 625 n 43
Gromyko, Andrei, 285
Grotewohl, Otto, 486
Gruenberg, Louis, 111
Guillén, Nicolás, 215–16, 218, 640 n 8
Guitry, Sacha, 157
Gwinn, Walton W., 373
Hagen, Uta, 264, 265, 268, 269, 271–2, 273, 275–8 284, 286–91, 292, 311–13, 549, 664 n 43, n 47, 667 n 9, n 14, n 17, n 19, 668 n 21, 676 n 38
relationship with PR, 286–8, 290–1, 311–13
on Othello tour (1944), 288–90
Hagerty, James C., 370
Hairy Ape, The (O’Neill)
London production of, 148–9, 616 n 50
Haiti (Du Bois), 226
Haitian revolution, plans for play or film about, 190, 194, 196–7, 633 n 25, 634 n 32
Haldane, Charlotte, 215, 639 n 2, 640 n 9
Haldane, J.B.S., 215
Hale, Ruth (Mrs. Heywood Broun), 69, 74, 86, 102
Hallinan, Vincent, 399, 405, 532
Hambro, Leonid, 369
Hamilton College, 238
Hamlet, 88
Hammer-British Lion Productions, 207
Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 111, 114, 195–6, 228, 285, 605 n 14, 697 n 28
see also Show Boat (musical)
Hammond, John H., 177, 295, 683 n 37
Hammond, Percy, 103–4, 159, 588 n 51
Hanau, Stella, 79
Handy, W.C., 285
Hann, Will, 52
Hansberry, Lorraine, 425, 524, 527, 755 n 15, n 16
Hapgood, Emilie, 580 n 23, 582 n 23
Harambee Organization (Rutgers), 760 n 12
Hardwicke, Cedric, 207
Harlem, 32–3, 85, 162, 235, 325, 379, 390, 420
in 1919 32–3
Jumel Terrace home, 435–6, 524, 540, 542, 760 n 7
return to live in (1939), 235
St. Nicholas Avenue apartments, 426, 701 n 17
Harlem (Thurman), 61
Harlem Hospital, 33
Harlem Renaissance, 33, 72–3, 88, 105, 115, 173, 223
Harlem Shadows (McKay), 95
Harlem Suitcase Theatre, 230–1, 645 n 42
Harlem Trade Union Council, 385, 396, 702 n 22
Harmony Kings, The, 44, 47–9, 52, 118, 124
Harriman, Edward H., 53
Harrington, Ollie, 379–80, 392, 518–19, 673 n 24
Harris, George W., 124
Harris, Jed, 138
Harris, Roy, 240
Harrison, Michael, 150, 151, 162
Hart-Davis, Rupert, 134, 143, 165, 614 n 38, 619–20 n 15, 620–1 n 20
Hartford Seminary Foundation, 292
Hastie, William H., 255, 295, 300
Hatcher, Richard G., 547
Hawkins, Coleman, 506
Hawtrey, Sir Charles, 49
Hayes, Arthur Garfield, 603 n 54
Hayes, Roland, xii, 49, 56, 72–4, 77, 78, 80, 81, 96, 105, 109, 110, 146, 170, 171, 636 n 50
Hayes, Rutherford B., 35
Hay Fever (Coward), 88
Hays office, 168
Hazelwood, Clifford, 318–19
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 130, 131, 609 n 8
Healey, Dorothy, 418, 419, 531, 757 n 23
Healy, Estelle, 88
Hellman, Lillian, 285, 409, 649 n 17, 654 n 5, 667 n 10
Hemingway, Ernest, 92, 640 n 12
Henderson, Fletcher, 74
Here I Stand (PR), 458–60, 465, 466, 525–6, 543, 566 n 2, 726 n 29, n 31
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 98
Herndon, Angelo, 230, 644 n 40
Herskovits, Melville, 198, 626 n 7, 635 n 36
Heyward, Dorothy, 106, 113, 230, 664 n 47
Heyward, DuBose, 106, 113, 193, 230, 622 n 25
Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor), 91
Higgins, Daniel, Rosalyn, and Terence, 620–1 n 20
Hill, Rev. Charles A., 398, 401, 406, 532, 673 n 26
Hille, Waldemar, 509
Hitler, Adolf, 233, 234, 318, 342
Hodgson, Margaret, 205
Hoggard, Bishop J. Clinton, 550, 567–9 n 5, n 9, n 15
Holmes, Rev. John Haynes, 33, 295, 366
Holtby, Winifred, 205
Homolka, Oscar, 132
Hoover, J. Edgar, 253–4, 254, 280, 317, 319, 320, 327–8, 337, 364, 366, 376, 388, 394, 410, 439, 454, 479, 522, 725 n 21; see also Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Hopkins, Harry, 305
Hopper, Hedda, 317
Horne, Lena, 284, 673 n 23, 675 n 31
Horner, Arthur, 228
Hotel Workers Union, 249
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 317–18, 336, 359, 361–2, 363, 391, 439–42, 702 n 25
1949 hearings in response to PR’s “unpatriotic” statements, 359–62; 693 n 58
PR subpoenaed to appear before, 439–43
Howard, Charles P., 321, 328, 333, 347, 348, 357, 508
Howard, Perry, 384
Howard University, 294
Huerta, Dolores, 547
Hughes, Elinor, 276
Hughes, Langston, 98, 170, 198, 204, 228, 230, 231, 374, 569 n 15, 588 n 51, 590 n 13, 605 n 20, 612 n 27, 613 n 32, 639–40 n 7, 643 n 31, 645 n 42, 662 n 33, 663 n 38, 667 n 18, 669 n 28, 674 n 26, 708–9 n 15, 743 n 8, 746 n 25
Hughes, Richard, 124
Hull, Henry, 83
Hungary, 461
1959 stopover in, 480
Soviet invasion of (1956), 443–4, 480, 721 n 34
Hunter, Alberta, 109, 114, 118, 143, 604 n 13
Hunton, Alphaeus, 257–8, 322, 331, 347, 349, 350, 354, 355, 383, 652 n 34, 670 n 6, 683 n 37, 686 n 15, 688 n 31, 690–1 n 47, 717 n 12, 734 n 33, 756 n 20
Hurok, Sol, 438
Hurston, Zora Neale, 82, 170, 591 n 15, 595 n 36, 601 n 43
Hurwitt, Claire (“Micki”), 514–16, 749 n 40, n 44, 750 n 49, 751 n 50
Hutchinson, Leslie, 116, 118, 152, 617 n 62
Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 603 n 3, 638 n 65, 666 n 5
Hylan, John F. (mayor of New York), 58, 63
Hynes, John B. (mayor of Boston), 391
Ibarruri, Dolores (La Pasionaria), 219
In Abraham’s Bosom (Green), 105
India, 235, 243, 248, 266, 299, 300, 398, 461–2, 471–2, 473–4, 727 n 37, 728–9 n 40, 732 n 27
Indian National Congress, 225
Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), 205
Ingraham, Mack, 405
Internal Security Act, see McCarran Act
International Brigade, 217–18, 227, 228
International Committee on African Affairs, 210
International Labor Defense organization, 187
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), 311, 366, 676 n 34
International Workers Order, 250
Ivens, Joris, 518
Jack, Hulan, 392
Jackman, Harold, 162, 591 n 16, 637 n 52
Jackson, William, 143, 619 n 15
Jackson, Yolande, 143–4, 149, 151–5, 157–8, 162–5, 166, 171, 242, 286, 288, 294, 614 n 38, 619–20 n 15, 620 n 18, n 20
chauffeur incident, 164
continuing involvement with (1932–50), 164–5
marriage plans called off by, 163, 166, 171
Jagan, Cheddi, 451, 465, 501, 547, 724 n 12
James, C.L.R., 171, 194, 196–8, 202, 547, 634 n 33, 637 n 52
Jamison, James L., 12
Jamison School, 12
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 578 n 12, 590 n 11
Jenkins, Clarence (“Little Fat”), 22
Jenkins, Harold (“Legs”), 22
Jenkins, Sue, 87
Jericho (film), 209, 210, 638 n 63
Jernagin, W. H., 377, 674 n 28
Jet (magazine), 415
Jewish Women’s Committee, 82
Jews, 11, 121, 133, 172, 301, 353, 493, 610 n 15
in Nazi Germany, 178, 626 n 48
in the Soviet Union, 352–4, 711–12 n 29, 735 n 44
Jim Crow, 3, 251, 256, 266, 288–9, 296, 325, 360, 361, 387, 392, 415, 431, 446, 681 n 21, 714 n 47
John Henry (Bradford), 228, 237–8, 647–8 n 11
Johnny Strikes Up the Band (Jonny Spielt Auf) (opera), 111
Johnson, Agnes Christine, 604 n 10
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 198–9, 360
Johnson, Edward A., 124
Johnson, Edwin C., 397
Johnson, Ellsworth (“Bumpy”), 312, 666 n 8, 676 n 36, 695 n 17
Johnson, Grace Nail, 70–1, 72, 73, 80, 100, 147
Johnson, Rev. Hewlett, 253
Johnson, Howard (“Stretch”), 258, 368, 409, 416, 420, 666 n 8
Johnson, James Weldon, 63, 71, 72, 73, 74, 80, 81, 83, 90, 100, 105, 111, 137, 147, 159, 172, 173, 580 n 22, 607 n 36
Johnson, Rev. John, 324
Johnson, Joseph L., 377, 682 n 21, 698 n 36, 704 n 38
Johnson, J. Rosamond, 73, 81, 219, 622 n 25
Johnson, Len, 424
Johnson, Lyndon, 485
Johnson, Manning, 359, 440, 692 n 57
Johnson, Mordecai, 305
Johnson, Robert D., 450
Johnstone, Tandy, 88–9, 115, 116, 118
Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, 321, 430
Joint Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 307–8
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric, 341, 378, 406
Jolson, Al, 102
Jonah’s Gourd Vine (Hurston), 170
Jones, Allan, 196
Jones, Claudia, 465, 479, 527, 755 n 15
Jones, J. Raymond, 392
Jones, Mary Helen, 425–6, 442, 531
Jones, Robert Edmond, 55, 138, 275, 580 n 23
Jones, Roderick, 232
Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up the Band) (opera), 111
Josephson, Barney, 284
“Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho,” 80
Julius Caesar, 13
Jumel Terrace home, 435–6, 524, 540, 542, 760 n 7
Kahn, Otto, 52–3, 69, 73–6, 79, 83–5, 89–9O, 119–20, 121, 597–8 n 14, 606 n 30
Kalsoun, Om, 209
Katanga Freedom Fighters, 333
Katanian, Vasily, 468–70, 478, 730 n 11, n 12, 113, n 14, 733 n 29, 762 n 15
Katzenstein, Alfred, 514, 516–19, 520, 521, 534, 750 n 49, 751 n 50, 752 n 51, 753 n 56, n 57, 758 n 31
Kaye, Lt. Conrad, 219
Kazakov, Ignaty N., 221, 641 n 17
Kean, Edmund, 274
Kearney, Bernard W. (representative), 360–1, 441
Kennedy, John F., 485, 492, 737 n 52
Kent, Rockwell, 285, 388, 406, 452–3, 463, 469
Kent, Sally, 469
Kenya, 333, 405, 415, 424; see also Kenyatta, Jomo
Kenyatta, Jomo, 171, 179, 180, 198, 480, 492, 626 n 54, 740 n 67
see also Show Boat (musical)
Kern, Paul J., 382
Khrushchev, Nikita, 416–17, 423, 429, 437, 460, 470, 473, 527, 731 n 14, 736 n 44
Kibbee, Guy, 239
Kiev, Ari, 533–5, 536, 751 n 50, 758 n 39
Kilgallen, Dorothy, 522
King, Dennis, 159
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 447, 448, 484, 505, 543, 745 n 16
King Solomon’s Mines (film), 202, 207, 637 n 54
Kinzell, Jack, 402
Kirghiz, 187
Kirstein, Lincoln, 73, 590–1 n 13
Kline, Nathan S., 532–3, 535, 537, 757 n 28
Knickerbocker, Cholly, 415
Knight, Frances G., 480
Knopf, Alfred, 72–4, 79, 102, 118, 121, 137, 139, 195, 590 n 13, 596 n 45, 606 n 36, 664 n 44, 748 n 38
Knopf, Blanche, 73, 79, 102, 103
Korda, Alexander and Zoltán, 178–9, 180, 181
Korean War, 383, 387–8, 390, 391, 397, 404
Kouka, Princess, 210
Krenek, Ernst, 111
Krimsky, John, 618–19 n 9, 621–2 n 25
Kropf, Howard, 81–2
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 65
Krylenko, Eliena, 95
Ku Klux Klan, 76, 305, 318, 326, 382, 387, 430, 433, 446, 668 n 20, 697 n 27
labor unions (labor movement), 249–50, 255–6, 309, 457, 652 n 36; see also under individual unions, and black caucuses
Laemmle, Carl, Jr., 203
Lafayette Players, 57
La Guardia, Fiorello, 253, 267, 299
Lamont, Corliss, 388, 405, 728 n 39
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 282–3
Lane, Thomas J., 358
Langner, Lawrence, 79, 88, 89, 240, 280
Laski, Harold, 225, 234, 671 n 14
Lattimore, Owen, 404
Lawson, John Howard, 107, 396, 526–7
League of Coloured Peoples, 624 n 38, 628 n 59
Leavin’ Time (Cullen), 622–3 n 27
Lebon, Philip, 511
Lee, Arthur, 69–70
Lee, Jennie, 466
Lehman, Herbert H., 392
Leslie, Lew, 52
“Let Robeson Sing” campaign (Great Britain), 424–5, 449–50, 724 n 7
Lev, Ray, 369
Lewenstein, Oscar, 492
Lewis, Bill, 236
Lewis, Ethelreda, 205, 636 n 50
Lewis, Sinclair, 72
Lewis, Theophilus, 57
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 64
Leyda, Jay, 188, 630 n 11, 631 n 14, 742 n 1
Leys, Norman, 199–202, 205, 635 n 37, 636 n 50
Liberator, The (magazine), 95, 529
Lifanov, Galya and Boris, 497
Life (magazine), 43, 370, 391–2
Light, James (Jimmy), 59, 60, 62, 63, 75, 83, 86–8, 90, 99, 132, 135, 137, 148, 163, 240
Lincoln Brigade, 217; see also International Brigade
Lincoln University, 17, 34, 566 n 2, 577 n 7
Lippmann, Walter, 253
Little Carib Theater, 336
Litvinov, Ivy, 186, 629 n 6, 659 n 12
Litvinov, Maxim, 186, 253, 423, 629 n 6
Liveright, Horace, 103, 596 n 2
Loesser, Diana, 424, 425, 486, 514, 518, 722 n 37, 738 n 55
Loesser, Franz, 424, 486, 514, 518, 722 n 37
Logan, Rayford W., 377
Lomax, Almena, 449
Lombard, Carole, 196
London
1925 trip to, 86–91
Emperor Jones, The, 89–91
friends and socializing, 88, 91
lodging, 87
restaurants, lack of prejudice at, 87–8
1928–29 stay in, 113–24
1939 departure from, 232
1958 trip to, 463–7
absence of racial prejudice, 87–8
plans to stage Voodoo (formerly Taboo) in, 44, 48
racial prejudice in, 123–4, 607–8 n 38
Show Boat in, 113–15, 117, 120
sixtieth-birthday celebration events (1958), 461
Lonsdale, Freddie, 88
Lorchard, Julia, 456
Lorchard, Metz, 456
Los Angeles, 1949 concert in, 376–7
Louis, Joe, 177, 195, 227, 295, 684 n 43
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 17, 104, 166, 182, 190, 194
C.L.R. James play about, 194, 196–7
“Loyalty—Lost and Found” (ER), 691 n 49
Lucas, Grant, 39, 102, 147, 148, 150
Lucy, Autherine, 444
Luria, Alexander, 187–8