Paul Robeson (178 page)

Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
399
,
400
,
437
;
see also
labor unions

Minor, Robert,
216
,
219
,
237

Miravitlles, Jaume,
219

Mitchell, Abbie,
48
,
105

Mitchell, Charlene,
542–3

Mitchell, H. L.,
259

Molnár, Ferenc,
610
n
13

Monk, Thelonius,
177
,
425

Monks, James,
273

Montagu, Ivor,
424
,
498
,
687
n
17

Montesole, Max,
134
,
136
,
611
n
24
,
613
n
35

Monteux, Pierre,
128

Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott,
447
,
722
n
2

Moody, Harold,
624
n
38
,
628
n
59

Moody, Ronald,
624
n
38

Moon, Henry Lee,
385

Moore, Archie,
454
,
725
n
18

Moore, Bessie,
29
,
567
n
5
,
576
n
29

Moore, Christine,
567
n
5
,
576
n
29

Moore, John Bassett,
53

Moore (senator),
328
,
330

Morehouse College,
267

Morford, Richard,
388
,
699
n
1

Morgan, Edward P.,
720
n
31

Morgan, Helen,
159
,
196
,
239
,
648
n
15

Moroka, James,
637
n
51

Morrison, Herbert,
213–14

Moscow Art Theatre,
116

Mosee, Elmer,
677
n
39
,
678
n
2

Moseley, Chuck,
530
,
762
n
17

Moses, Bob,
528

Moss, Carlton,
250

Mossell, Gertrude Bustill,
5
,
8

Mossell, Nathan F.,
5
,
566–7
n
2
,
n
3

Mostel, Zero,
285

Moten, Etta (Barnett),
615
n
45
,
668
n
20
,
732
n
18

Mother A.M.E. Zion Church,
10

1958 concert in,
462–3
,
728
n
38

PR's move into parsonage of,
426–8

Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals,
376

Mountbatten, Lady Edwina,
160–1
,
617
n
62
,
618–19
n
9
,
727
n
37

Mountbatten, Lord Louis,
160–1
,
618
n
9

Movement for Colonial Freedom,
479

Muhammad, Elijah,
528

Mulatto
(Hughes),
662–3
n
38

Mundt-Nixon Bill,
328–30
,
337
,
390
,
687
n
16

Munro, Norma Leslie,
632
n
20

Murphy, Carl,
471
,
665
n
47
,
693
n
61
,
711
n
25

Murphy, Dudley,
168
,
223
,
621
n
25

Murphy, George B., Jr.,
326
,
401
,
426
,
447
,
457–8
,
460
,
524
,
674
n
28
,
709
n
17
,
711
n
25
,
727
n
32
,
753
n
56
,
754
n
7

Murphy, Harvey,
400

Murray, Henry A. (Harry),
34–5
,
37–8
,
570
n
16
,
577–8
n
8

Murray, Philip,
357

Muse, Clarence,
168
,
260

Mussolini, Benito,
133
,
195
,
234
,
248

My Life and Loves
(Harris),
95

My Song Goes Forth
(film),
202
,
203
,
636
n
45

Nachtigall, Richard,
536–7
,
758
n
41
,
n
42

Naison, Mark,
652
n
37

Nance, Ethel Ray,
757
n
27

narragansett Pier, Rhode Island,
11–12

Nash, Robert,
21

Nathan, George Jean,
56
,
64–5
,
74
,
77
,
103–4
,
602
n
46
,
664
n
44

Nathan, Otto,
484

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
4
,
56
,
248
,
285
,
294–5
,
299–301
,
305–7
,
319
,
322–3
,
334
,
347–9
,
359
,
362
,
376
,
385
,
396
,
413
,
448
,
484
,
528
,
669
n
28
,
674
n
26
,
679
n
5
,
681
n
19
,
n
20
,
711
n
27

antilynching campaign and conflicts with PR over,
305–7

HUAC hearings and,
359

PR's Paris speech and (1949),
347–9

Peoria affair and (1947),
319

Spingarn Medal presented to PR,
295
,
299–301

during World War II,
322–3

National Council for American-Soviet Friendship,
242
,
443
,
526

National Football Hall of Fame,
760
n
8
,
763
n
21

National Guardian
,
336
,
350

National Insider, The
,
512–13
,
748
n
37

National Labor Conference for Negro Rights (1950),
387

National Maritime Union (NMU),
294

National Negro Congress (NNC),
247–52
,
309–11
,
317
,
673
n
26
,
677
n
43

National Negro Labor Council,
400
,
425
,
702
n
22
,
714
n
47

National Non-Partisan Mass Delegation to Washington (1948),
324
,
635
n
36

National Paul Robeson Committee,
449
,
721
n
37

Native Land
(film),
261

NBC, appearance by PR canceled by (1950),
384–5

Neale, Geraldine (Gerry) Maimie,
see
Bledsoe, Geraldine

Neale, Earl “Greasy” (football coach),
23

Nearing, Helen and Scott,
518
,
752
n
51

Negro
(Cunard, ed.),
158

Negroes in America
(McKay),
96

“Negro in American Life, The” (pageant),
250

Negro People's Ambulance to Republican Spain,
639
n
69

Negro Playwrights' Company,
243

Nehru, Jawaharlal,
225–6
,
243
,
266
,
378–9
,
461
,
462
,
643
n
29
,
n
30
,
727
n
35
,
n
37
,
732
n
27

PR's refusal to meet with (1949),
378–9
,
698–9
n
38

Neruda, Pablo,
424
,
463
,
719
n
17

New Africa
(magazine),
297
,
299

New Age
(newspaper),
360
,
361

Newcombe, Don,
396

“New Idealism, The” (Commencement Day speech by PR),
26–7

Newman, Ernest,
608
n
2

Newsweek
,
320
,
370–1

New World Review
,
436

New York Drama League,
61

New Yorker, The
,
125–6
,
569
n
15
,
611
n
25

New York
Herald Tribune
,
71
,
523

New York State, legislative committee hearings in (1955),
430

New York Times, The
,
43
,
62
,
115
,
341
,
349
,
430
,
479–80
,
523
,
544
,
717
n
8
,
720
n
27

New York
World
,
62
,
64
,
76
,
79
,
82
,
83

New Zealand, 1960 concert tour of,
487–90
,
738
n
60
,
739
n
61

Niagara Movement,
4

Nied, Frank,
34

Nigger Heaven
(Van Vechten),
100

Nit, Johnny,
75

Nixon, Richard,
384
,
485
,
676
n
36

Nkrumah, Kwame,
171
,
492
,
500–1
,
508
,
737
n
53
,
743
n
7
,
746
n
25

North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
341
,
350

Norton, Elliott,
276

Nyerere, Julius K.,
547

O'Connor, D. D.,
488

Odets, Clifford,
223
,
677
n
39
,
692
n
51

“Old Black Joe,”
45

“Ol' Man River,”
113
,
120
,
203–4
,
468
,
606
n
29

changes in lyrics,
214
,
369
,
604–5
n
14

Oliver, Edna May,
159

Olivier, Laurence,
477
,
664
n
45
,
724
n
7

O'Neill, Eugene,
52
,
53
,
55
,
58
,
63–4
,
66
,
75
,
77
,
90
,
132
,
148
,
167
,
168
,
585
n
14
,
n
19
,
587
n
38
,
n
42
,
592
n
18
,
610
n
13
,
622
n
25
,
n
26
; see also
All God's Chillun Got Wings; Emperor Jones, The; Hairy Ape, The

O'Neill, Raymond,
56

Oorang Indians,
34

Opportunity
(magazine),
66
,
82

Osborne, John,
451

Osman, John,
516

Othello
(Shakespeare),
13
,
50
,
78
,
91
,
432
,
607
n
36

American production (1942–44),
263–5
,
268–81
,
660
n
15
,
661
n
24
,
n
25
,
n
31
,
n
33
,
662
n
34
,
n
35
,
n
36
,
663
n
43
,
664
n
44
,
n
45
,
n
47
,
667
n
10
,
668
n
4

Brattle Theater tryout,
263–5
; reviews,
658
n
6
,
n
7

directing technique of Margaret Webster,
270–1
,
661
n
24

dispute over José Ferrer and Uta Hagen,
268–9

end of run,
285–6

opening on Broadway,
276–7

out-of-town previews,
275–6
,
663
n
39

recording of,
664–5
n
47

rehearsals,
275

return to New York for limited run (1945),
295