Acadian French, 66
Adams, E. C. L., 188
Adams, Lewis, 240
A.E.F. Intelligence Test, 327
Agar, Herbert, 221
Agrarian, 17
Alabama Relief Administration, 153
Alabama Sun, The, 325
Alcorn, James L., 206
Alexander, Will W., 81, 155, 353
Along This Way, 14
American Caravan, The, 9
American Dilemma, An, 7, 9, 15, 311, 312, 313
American Literature Symposium, 11
American Missionary Association, 292, 347
American Review, The, 328
Amistad revolt, 252
Ammons, Al, 302
Anderson, Charles, 240
Anderson, Ivie, 273
Andrepont, 72
Anthology of Negro American Literature, 6
Antoine, C. C., 146
Approach to Literature, 188
Armstrong, Louis, 27, 38, 65, 131, 252, 275, 277, 279, 286
Armstrong, Samuel C., 240
Atlanta Life Insurance Company, 171, 174, 179, 293
Atlanta University, 11, 104, 129, 171, 175, 178, 180, 181, 207, 218, 219, 222, 233, 234, 235, 291, 293, 337, 365, 367
Auburn Mansion, 132, 156, 172, 173, 179, 180, 311
Aunt Mercy (Brown’s great-aunt), 192
Auzenne, Jimmy, 70
Babbitt, 191
Babson, Roger, 326
Bacote, Clarence A., 222
bagasse mills, 148
Baldwin, Roger, 292
Bancroft, Frederic, 119
Baratania Bay, 148
barbus patasa, 68
Basie, William “Count,” 43, 251
Basin Street Blues, 277
Bay St. Louis, 138
Bayou Teche, 70
Bechet, Sidney, 275, 277, 279, 287
Bedford, General Nathan, 194
Belvidere Mansion, 133
Bennie Moten Band, 43
Berkeley, Governor William, 203
Berkley, 116
Betts, Bill, 173
Bilbo, Senator Theodore G., 237, 248, 327, 328
Biloxi, 138
Birmingham Post, 336
Birotte, Simeon, 70
Black, Aline E., 230
Black Arts movement, 10
Black Power, 10
blackbirding, 142
Blennerhasset Mansion, 132
blues, 5, 6, 9, 12, 14, 38, 159, 251, 269, 270, 276, 277, 347, 348
Boilermaker’s Union, 48
Bolden, Buddy, 142
Bond, Horace Mann, 261
Book of American Negro Poetry, 7
Booth, John Wilkes, 115
Borglum, Gutzon, 129
Bourke-White, Margaret, 350
Braithwaite, William Stanley, 8
Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 8
Brer Tortoise, 129
Broadside Press, 8
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids, 4
Broun, Heywood Hale, 276
Brown, Adelaide Allen (Brown’s mother), 4, 347
Gallatin, Tennessee, 192
Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 246
Brown, Daisy Turnbull (Brown’s wife), 86, 87
Brown, Lawrence, 273
Brown, Sterling A., 3–15, 17, 18, 36, 79–80, 113–14, 197, 251–52, 297–98, 313–14, 316, 345, 347, 352–54, 358, 366–67, 371 writings: Collected Poems of Sterling A. Brown, The, 7, 8
“Count Us In,” 9, 13, 313, 314, 315, 316, 334
Last Ride of Wild Bill and Eleven Narrative Poems, The, 8
Negro Caravan, The, 9, 69 “Negro Character As Seen by White Authors,” 8
Negro in American Fiction, The, 8
Negro Poetry and Drama, 8
Slim Greer poems, 307
Southern Road, 7, 8, 12, 23, 346, 347
Brown, Sterling Nelson (Brown’s father), 4, 14, 346
Lincoln Temple Congregational Church, 4
My Own Life Story, 14
Brown, W. H., 235
Brown, William Wells, 14
Buck, Pearl S., 341
Bull, William, 120
Bullock, Benjamin F., 234
Butler, General Ben, 140
Cabbage Row, 119
Cable, George Washington, 138, 332, 360
Cadillac, Antoine De La Mothe, 145, 360
Caldwell, Erskine, 21
Calhoun, John, 119
Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of African American Literature, 9
Camilla-Zack Country Life Center, 85
Campbell, T. M., 153
cane bière, 65
Cannon, Elizabeth Perry, 233
carencros, 66
Carnegie, Andrew, 240
Carnegie Corporation, 9
Carnegie-Myrdal Study, 72
Carver, George Washington, 217, 362
Cash, W. J., 330
Catfish Row, 119
Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present, 9
“century of the common man,” 340–41
Chacheré, Father Carmen George, 72, 73
Chamberlain, Reverend Jeremiah, 206
Champs d’Elysses Street, 147
Charles City Ferry, 116
Chehaw, 301
Cherokee Indians, 132, 146, 254
Chicksaw Indians, 145
Chivers, Thomas Holly, 130
Choctaw Indians, 132, 140, 192
Christian, Charlie, 14
Christophe, Henri, 121
Cinque, 292
Cobb, Montague, 331
Cobb, Rufus, 240
Coca-Cola, 19, 31, 106, 124, 177, 179, 302
Cohn, David, 204, 329, 333, 334
Cold Harbor, 116
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 48, 228
Considine, Bob, 31
Constitution, United States, 111, 343
Coolidge, President Calvin, 129
Count of Monte Cristo, The, 69
courbillion, 68
Courtland, 193
Cox, Ida, 277
Creole, 36, 38, 66, 69, 73, 74, 138, 140, 143, 147, 203, 275, 279, 360
Crisis, The, 216
Croquere, Basile, 146
Cross, E. A., 220
Cross and the Flag, The, 331
Cross Keys, 193
Crouchet, Auguste, 70
Crummell, Alexander, 4
Cullen, Countee, 6
Dabney, Virginius, 233, 329, 336, 337, 368
Daniels, Jonathan, 10, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 313, 350
Daughters of the Confederate Veterans, 191
Davis, Griff, 129
Davis, Jackson, 233
Davis, Jefferson, 51, 127, 133, 140, 147, 192
Davis, John P., 22
Davis, Miles, 252
Davis-Dyer community, survey of, 201
Declaration of Independence, 343, 356
Deep South, 11, 17, 19, 23, 134, 145, 326, 371
d’Estaing, Count, 121
D’Evereux Mansion, 132
Dillard, James Hardy, 233
Dismal Swamp, Virginia, 194
Dodd, Lamar, 295
Dodds, Johnny, 279
Dorsey, Jimmy, 280
Douglass, Frederick, 4, 14, 136, 198, 245, 349
Dove, Rita, 3
Duc d’Orleans, 138
Dumas, Alexander, 69
Dunbar High School, 5
Dunn, Oscar, 146
Dutton, George, 6
Eckstine, Billy, 252, 287, 290
editor of Negro affairs, 9
Elizabeth City State Normal School, 244
Ellender, Senator Allen J., 331
Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke,” 38, 251, 272, 275
Emancipation Proclamation, 343, 355
Embree, Edwin, 11
Epps, Eric, 228
Ethridge, Mark, 329
Ezelle, Buster, 281
Fabulous New Orleans, 145
Farm Security Administration (FSA), 80, 81, 153, 318, 342, 362
Farmer, Paul, 218
Farr, Roba, 37
Father Divine (George Baker), 121
Fauset, Jessie, 5
Federal Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), 29, 48, 109, 248, 336, 338, 342, 372
Federal Housing Authority, 342
Federal Writers’ Project, 9, 113, 345, 360, 367
Ferguson, Homer, 228
Fink, Mike, 131
Fisk Jubilee Singers, 270, 347
Fisk University, 4, 6, 152, 158, 178, 192, 193, 259, 270, 292, 347, 366
Five North Carolina Educators, 243
Flagg, James Montgomery, 88
Flint, John, 120
Folk Say, 7
folk sayings, 5
Ford, Henry, 122
Foreman, Clark, 168
Forsyth Square, 120
Fort Sumter, 118, 192, 206, 362
Fortune, T. Thomas, 240
Forty Acres and Steel Mules, 21, 22
Frances, Saint Mary, 75
Frank, Leo, 176
Franklin, Sam, 20
Frazier, E. Franklin, 181
free issue, 53
Freitchie, Barbara, 115
French Quarter, 139, 141, 144, 146
Frilot Cove, 36, 64, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78
From the Mississippi Delta, 14
Gallagher, President Buell, 292
Garvey, Marcus, 4
Gay, James, 82
Gee, Charles and Sterling, 152
Gee’s Bend, 114, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160
General Education Board, 233, 369
Georgia Woman’s World, 326
Gillespie, Dizzy, 252
Glasgow House, 116
Gloster, Hugh, 335
Gone with the Wind, 12, 113, 114, 124, 125
Gordon, Aza, 180
Grace, Rev. Charles “Sweet Daddy,” 121
Grady, Henry, 124, 173, 291, 363
Graham, Martha, 270
Graves, John Temple, 330, 331, 341, 368
Green, Bertram “Fats,” 37
Greene, Nathanael, 121
Greer, Sonny, 272
Grimke, Angelina W., 5
Growing Up in the Black Belt, 214
Guest, Edgar A., 167
Hall, Howland, 245
Hammond, John, 154
Hampton, Lionel, 285
Hampton Singers, 270
Handy, W. C., 281
Hardwicke, Otto, 272
Hardy, Thomas, 36
Harmon Award, 291
Harper, Principal C. L., 245
Harreld, Kemper, 220, 261, 265
Harris, Joel Chandler, 129, 173, 203
Harris, Julian, 129
Harris, Trudier, 14
Haunted House, 143
Hawkins, Erskine, 272
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 133, 147
Hayes, Roland, 6, 27, 28, 251, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 271, 335, 348
Haynes, S. T., 153
Hell’s Half Acre, 231
Henderson, Fletcher, 100, 245, 362
Henderson, Horace, 199, 245, 248, 281, 325
Henderson, Professor Fletcher Hamilton, Sr., 245
Henry, John, 30, 269, 281, 305
Hepplewhite furniture, 133
Hergesheimer, Joseph, 133
Herndon, Alonzo, 172, 173, 174, 178, 293
Herndon, Angelo, 172
Herndon, Norris, 178
Heyward, Du Bose, 119
Higgins, Andrew, 147
Hines, Earl “Father,” 251, 287
Hitler, Adolf, 29, 31, 32, 33, 208, 325, 343
Hollis, Christopher, 188
Hope, President John, 291
Houston, R. T., 110
Howe, Edward, 245
Howells, Varina, 133
Howland, Emily, 245
Hubbard, Elbert, 239
Hughes, Langston, 5
Hurston, Zora Neale, 5
Jackson, Andrew, 140, 192, 359
Jackson, Graham, 286
Jackson, Tony, 277
Jackson Daily News, 336
Jacobs, Harriet, 14
Jakeman, Robert J., 298
James, Harry, 286
James, Willis, 251, 261, 268, 281, 282, 284
Jameson, R. D., 219
Jasper, Sergeant William, 121
Jeanes Fund, 71, 200, 216, 233, 234, 236, 368, 369
Jeanmard, Bishop Jules B., 76, 77
Jefferson Parish Yearly Review, 148
Jerusalem, Virginia, 193, 267, 268
Johnson, Bunk, 279
Johnson, Campbell, 249
Johnson, Charles S., 71, 158, 200, 214, 323
Johnson, Gerald, 128
Johnson, Guy, 337
Johnson, Hayden, 301
Johnson, James Weldon, 5, 7, 14, 198, 348
Johnson, Lonnie, 270
Johnson, William, 174
Jones, Governor Sam, 75
Jones, J. Richardson, 171
Jordan, Louis, 285
Journal of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, 216
Kellogg, Paul, 17
King Street, 120
Kirk, Andy, 43
Ku Klux Klan, 19, 129, 177, 183, 329, 330, 359, 362, 365
Lake Pontchartrain, 139
Lakota Indians, 15
Land of the Free, 21
Laney, Lucy, 246
Langston, John Mercer, 4
Lanier, Sidney, 130
Laveau, Marie, 144
Lazarette, 122
Le Prete House, 143
Leaving Pipe Shop, 14
Lee, Robert E., 27, 113, 115, 117, 127, 356
Leonard, William Ellery, 219
Lesesne, Thomas Petigree, 119
Lewis, George, 279
Lewis, John C., 187
Lewis, John L., 19
Lewis, Meade Lux, 302
Lewis, Roscoe E., 193
Life of Lafcadio Hearn, 146
Lilienthal, David, 20
Lim, Harry, 279
Lincoln, Abraham (student), 37, 39
Lincoln University (Missouri), 4, 6, 24, 35, 37, 41, 49, 73, 103, 115, 171, 215, 220, 347, 352, 355, 367
Linden Mansion, 132
Livery Stable Blues, 278
Livingstone Hall of Fisk University, 193
Logan, Rayford W., 181
Long, Huey, 20, 67, 139, 147, 331
Longstreet, Augustus, 130
Louisiana Educational Survey, The, 200
Louisiana Guide, 187
Louisiana Purchase, 141
Louisiana Territory, 116
Lukeman, Augustus, 129
MacLeish, Archibald, 21
Madison, James, 115
Magna Carta, 343
Mahogany Hall Stomp, 277
Malone, Annie Turnbo, 177, 364
Manassas Industrial School, 245, 246
Manigault, Joseph and Gabriel, 118, 357
March-on-Washington movement, 339
Marthasville, 124
Martin, E. M., 171
Masters, Frankie, 276
May, Congressman Andrew Jackson, 327
Mayfield School, 246
Mays, Benjamin, 339
McCuistion, Fred, 233
McDowell, Deborah, 14
McIntosh House, 121
McKay, Cliff, 252, 253, 259, 286
McKissack, Calvin, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305
Meldrim House, 121
Memories of Kin, 14
Merrick, John, 174
Middle Georgia Singers, The, 281
Milburn, George, 145
Miller, Kelly, 4
Milteer, Henry, 194
Minard, J. H., 146
Mississippi: An American Journey, 14
Mississippi, state of, 17, 23, 28, 38, 52, 100, 114, 124, 131, 132, 139, 142, 147, 177, 199, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 214, 216, 237, 247, 248, 276, 277, 323, 324, 326, 327, 335, 350, 357, 358, 360, 361, 367, 372
Monroe Doctrine, 116
Monteigne Mansion, 132
Moore, Peter Weddick, 244
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, 10
Morton, Ferdinand “Jelly Roll,” 275–76, 277
Mulatto Bayou, 138
Murray, Albert, 14
Mystick Kreive, 145
Nanton, Tricky Sam, 273
Nash, Charles E., 146
Nashville, Tennessee, 171, 190, 191, 192, 302, 305, 347
Natchez, 19, 100, 114, 124, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 147, 174, 191, 192, 357, 358
Natchez Dancehall, 131
Natchez Trace, 192
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 187
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 4, 117, 181, 229, 230, 237, 249, 253, 327, 337, 339, 346, 349, 363, 365, 373
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), 11, 197, 218, 221, 367
National Park Museum, 116
Negro Foot, Virginia, 193
Negro in Virginia, The, 9, 193, 345, 354
New Deal, 21, 24, 329, 342, 351, 352, 362
New Negro, 3, 4, 5, 18, 198, 346, 348
New Orleans, Louisiana, 11, 19, 52, 74, 75, 114, 118, 121, 131, 138–48, 185, 190, 191, 241, 275, 276, 278, 279, 280, 359, 360, 361, 371
New Orleans (novel), 145
Newbold, North Carolina, 233, 243
Nixon, Herman Clarence, 21
No Day of Triumph, 14
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 230
North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, 175
Norton Anthology of African American
Literature, The, 9
Oakland College, 206
Oberlin College, 4
Ode on a Grecian Urn, 126
Odum, Howard, 329
Old Exchange, 118
Old Massa’s People, 187
Old Orleans Ballroom, 143
Old Slave Market, 118
Old Wash, 135
Oliver, King, 275
O’Neill, Eugene, 39
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 6, 8, 10, 17, 201, 251, 348, 353
O’Reilly, General Alexander, 145, 361
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 278
Owsley, Frank, 329
Page, Thomas Nelson, 187, 203, 330
Palmer, Lutrelle F., 197, 225, 238
Pannell, E. E., 228
Parham, Tiny, 268
Pascagoula, 138
Pass Christian, 138
Payne, Uncle Free, 265
Peachtree Street, 124, 173, 242, 370
Pegler, James Westbrook, 32
Pelham, Robert A., 172
Perkins, Dave, 278
Perry, Bliss, 6
Perry, Heman, 178
Peterkin, Julia, 204
Pettway, Mark, 152
Phelps-Stokes Fund, 233
Phi Beta Kappa, 6, 117, 125, 363
Pickens, Dean William, 171
Picott, James Rupert, 228
Picou, Alphonse, 276
Pinchback, P. B. S., 146
Pinkett, John, 308
Pitts, Howard, 173
Playing in the Dark, 8
Plinton, Jimmy, 91
Pocahontas Trail, 116
Poe, Edgar Allan, 130
Polaski, Count, 121
Pooley, Robert C., 218
Porter, Kenneth, 194
Portrait of a Race, A, 240
Poulette, Tite, 143
Prairie View A&M College, 103
Preface to Peasantry, 22, 81, 372
Pride, Clayborne, 174
Races of Mankind, The, 327
Rainey, Gertrude Pridgett “Ma,” 12, 38, 276, 348
Raleigh News and Observer, 19
Rankin, Representative John Elliott, 327, 328
Ransom, Andy, 230
Raper, Arthur, 22, 81, 85, 321, 333
Read, Florence, 261
Record Changer, The, 75, 153, 228, 319, 326, 372
Redding, J. Saunders, 14
Reed, John D., 305
Reedy, Sidney, 220
Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South, 14
Revels, Hiram R., 206
Rex, 145
Rhett, William, 118
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 226, 369
Rillieux, Norbert, 172
Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, The, 192
Rivera, Diego, 291
Roane County, Tennessee, 193
Robinson, James ( Jim), 276, 279
Robinson, W. A., 235
Rockefeller, John D., 19, 99, 117, 285, 369
Rockwood, Tennessee, 193
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 24, 171, 312, 326
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 24, 32, 343, 351, 371, 372
Rosenwald Fund, 11, 81, 167, 168, 169, 233, 234, 330
Rosenwald Training School, 41
Ruiz, 292
Rummel, Archbishop Joseph Francis, 75
Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, 21
Rushing, Jimmy, 14
Russell, Louis, 286
Rutledge, John, 118
St. Philip’s Church, 118
San Antone Trace, 192
Sancton, Thomas, 321, 324, 338
Sass, Herbert Ravenal, 118
Saturday Evening Post, 25
Saturday Review of Literature, 145
Savannah Theater, 121
Savannah, Georgia, 19, 98, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 180, 190, 192, 241, 338
Savery, William, 292
Saxon, Lyle, 138, 145, 146, 148
Scarborough House, 121
School of Religion at Howard University, 4
Scott, Emmett, 240
Scottsboro boys, 329
Sequatchie Valley, 249
Shadow and Act, 8
Sharecroppers All, 216
Shaw, Artie, 286
Shaw Memorial School, 119
Sheen, Rt. Rev. Monseigneur Fulton J., 75
Sheraton furniture, 133
Singleton, Zutty, 276
Sissle, Noble, 275
Sister Cow, 129
Slave-Trading in the Old South, 119
Smith, Charles, 279
Smith, Ellison D. “Cotton Ed,” 336
Smith, Gerald L. K., 331
Souls of Black Folk, The, 14, 349
South to a Very Old Place, 14
South Today, The, 371
Southern Association of Schools and Colleges, 226
Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 22
Southerner Discovers the South, A, 10, 13, 17, 35, 350
Soviet Union, 343
Spelman College, 59, 103, 220, 261, 266, 291, 365
State Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, 153
Stone Mountain, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 191, 357
Straight, Michael, 341
Stuart, J. E. B., 116
Sullins, Colonel Frederick, 248
Summer Snow: Reflections From a Black Daughter of the South, 14
Sumner, William Graham, 329
Sunken Road, 116
Sweets, Nathaniel, 37
tall-tale tradition, 80
Talladega College, 252, 291, 292
Talmadge, Herman Eugene, 23, 25, 29, 31, 56, 81, 114, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 220, 241, 242, 322, 326, 328, 330, 351
Tappan, Arthur, 292
Telfair Academy, 121
Tenant-Purchase families, 86
tenantry, 21
Tenants of the Almighty, 81, 88
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 19, 20, 21
Thomas, Louisiana, 88
Thompson, T. Roger, 228
Three Musketeers, The, 69
Tillman, Nathaniel P. “Tic,” 218, 219, 220, 221, 261, 367
Tizol, Juan, 272
Tojo, Hideki, 343
Tomochichi, Chief, 121
Treasure Island, 120
Tuskegee and the Black Belt, 240
Tuskegee Institute, 30, 64, 91, 109, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 168, 171, 239, 240, 259, 297, 298, 301, 304, 307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 320, 325, 339, 354, 362, 368, 369, 370
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 52
Undefeated, The, 128
United Services Organization (USO), 62
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), 4
University of Oklahoma, 11
Untermeyer, Louis, 8
Vieux Carre, 141
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 245–46
Virginia Seminary and College, 6, 347, 348
Walker, Anne Kendrick, 240
Walker-Grant School, 246
Washington, Booker T., 26, 29, 41, 155, 175, 178, 181, 217, 239, 240, 244
Washington, G. L., 310
Washington: City and Capital, 9
Wayne, Mad Anthony, 121
Webster’s Blue Back Speller, 173
Wells, Albert, 293
Wesley, John, 120
Wetter House, 121
What the Negro Wants, 17, 313, 314, 315, 365
Wheeler, Doc, 272
Whiting, Helen, 234
Wilkerson, Doxey, 199
Wilkinson, Horace, 325
William and Mary College, 117
Williams, Cootie, 272
Williams, Priscilla, 266
Williams, Spencer, 277
Williams College, 6
Woodruff, Fuzzy, 174
Woodruff, Hale, 252, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295
work songs, 5, 12, 268, 269, 271
Works Projects Administration (WPA), 42, 86, 211, 248, 345, 351
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 117
Yamacraw, 121
You Have Seen Their Faces, 21, 350
Young, Perry, 145
Young Men’s Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.), 62, 190
Zulu King, 145