Paul Robeson (170 page)

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

Antheil, George,
92
,
193

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

Arthur, Gavin,
130
,
609
n
9

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

Attlee, Clement,
213
,
299

Austin, Warren,
387–8
,
397

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

Baldwin, C. B.,
688
n
31

Baldwin, James,
528
,
748
n
38

Baldwin, Roger,
366
,
695
n
19

“Ballad for Americans,”
236–8
,
240
,
259
,
327
,
647
n
2

“Ballad of Uncle Sam, The,”
236

Ballinger, William,
205

Bandler, Faith,
490
,
739
n
63

Bandung conference (1955),
431
,
434
,
444

Bankhead, Tallulah,
88

Bantu,
5
,
176

Barfoot, James,
326
,
681
n
21

Barkley, Alben,
337

Barnes, A. C.,
102
,
601
n
43

Barnett, Claude A.,
168
,
226–7
,
481
,
718
n
16
,
732
n
18

Barnett, Etta Moten,
615
n
45

Barnouw, Erik,
242
,
649
n
21

Barsky, Ed,
436
,
439
,
496
,
532
,
540

Barsky, Vita,
540

Bartholomew, Marshall,
78

Bartók, Béla,
740
n
65

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, Alfie,
224
,
449
,
543

Bass, Charlotta,
321
,
376
,
388
,
398
,
401
,
405

Bastian, Walter N.,
396

BBC,
480–1
,
483
,
737
n
53

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

Benchley, Robert,
43
,
64

Bengal, Ben,
223

Benn, Anthony Wedgwood,
466

Bennett, Arnold,
89

Benson, Frank,
134
,
620
n
15

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

Berkman, Alexander,
89
,
156

Berlin

1930 visit to,
132–3

1934 visit to,
184–5
,
629
n
2

blockade of,
325

Bernal, J. D.,
341
,
424

Berry, Abner,
346

Bessie, Alvah,
704
n
38

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

Bevan, Aneurin,
425
,
466

Bevin, Ernest,
672
n
18

Bibb, Joseph D.,
256

Biberman, Edward,
668
n
21

Biberman, Herbert,
708
n
12

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

Blackman, Peter,
340
,
351–3

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

Blair, Mary,
57–8
,
59
,
63

Blake, James Hubert (“Eubie”),
45
,
51
,
549
,
582
n
28

Blankfort, Michael,
632
n
21

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, Harry,
45
,
583
n
30

Bledsoe, Julius (“Jules”),
73
,
81
,
105
,
111
,
113
,
594
n
34

Blitzstein, Marc,
261
,
421
,
438
,
677
n
39

Block, Harry,
102–3

Blockson, Charles L.,
760
n
9

Bloor, Ella Reeve,
107
,
396
,
644
n
37

blues, the,
156
,
177–8

Bluford, Lucile,
256

Boas, Franz,
3

Body and Soul
(film),
77
,
260

Bohlen, Chip,
407

Boles, John,
239

Boiling, Buddy,
42
,
167

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

Booth, Alan,
408
,
437
,
462–3

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