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overcoat incident during flight,
498
,
741
n
1

anti-Semitism in,
353–4

PR on,
690
n
43
,
711–12
n
29
,
736
n
44

black Americans in,
185
,
188–9
,
468
;

Russian culture and,
175
,
629
n
4

Churchill's “Iron Curtain” speech,
303–4

collectivization,
208–9

Constitution, Article,
123
,
211

election of 1948 and,
325

in
Here I Stand
(PR),
458

Hungary, invasion of,
443–4

Jews in,
352–4
,
711–12
n
29
,
735
n
44
;
see also
Feffer, Itzik; Mikhoels, Solomon

Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes,
416–17
,
437
,
460

labor camps,
208–9

national minorities in,
186–8
,
211
,
282
,
354
,
630
n
9

see also
Uzbekistan; Yakuts

nonaggression pact with Hitler,
231–2

purge trials,
221
,
308
,
417
,
506
,
641
n
17

PR's views on

1945,
297
,
300

1950s,
415–19
,
711
n
29

1960s,
505–6
,
512–13
,
742
n
3
,
748
n
37
,
750
n
48
,
760
n
5

PR, Jr.,'s education in,
205–11
,
221
,
633
n
26
,
641
n
18

World War II and,
232–5
,
252–3

Finland, invasion of,
234–5
,
239

Spain

1938 trip to,
215–20

absence of racial prejudice in,
219–20
,
639
n
7

Spanish Civil War,
210–20

black volunteers in,
217
,
639
n
7

rallies and benefit concerts,
210–14
,
227–8
,
643
n
31

reasons for going to Spain,
216

Spencer, Mrs. Niles,
70

Spencer, Niles,
70

Spingarn, Arthur,
117
,
300

Spingarn, Joel,
295

Spingarn Medal,
295
,
299–301

spirituals,
see
Robeson, Paul: concerts and recitals

Spook Sonata, The
(Strindberg),
56

Spottswood, Bishop Stephen Gill,
377
,
428

S.S. Glencairn
(O'Neill),
75

Stachel, Jack,
420

Stalin, Joseph,
186
,
190
,
208–9
,
221
,
234
,
382
,
383
,
406
,
407
,
416–17
,
437
,
460
,
506

nonaggression pact with Hitler,
231–2

Stalin Peace Prize,
406
,
707
n
5

Stallings, Laurence,
64
,
74

Stansgate, Viscount,
465
,
466

State Department, U.S.,
see
Robeson, Paul: travel restrictions

Staton, Nettie,
6

“Steal Away,”
80

Stebbins, Robert,
181

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur,
612
n
26

Steichen, Edward,
103

Stein, Gertrude,
73
,
92–3
,
94
,
106
,
109
,
110
,
112
,
118
,
596
n
45
,
598
n
15
,
n
16
,
n
17
,
603
n
2
,
642
n
20

Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry),
657
n
65

Stern, G. B.,
94

Stettheimer, Ettie,
83

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr.,
297
,
298
,
305

Stevedore
(play),
191
,
192–3
,
632
n
21

Stevens, Hope R.,
528

Stevens, Nan Bagby,
56

Stevenson, Adlai,
404
,
444

Stewart, Donald Ogden,
285

Still, William Grant,
240

Stockholm,
461

1949 concert in,
349
,
689
n
34

Stokes, Alvin,
359

Stokes, Anson Phelps,
652–3
n
39

Stokowski, Leopold,
591
n
15

Stone, Harlan Fiske,
53

Storck, Donald,
22
,
25

Stotesbury, Louis William,
54–5

Strachey, John,
221

Straight, Dorothy,
607
n
36

Straight, Michael,
682
n
22

Strand, Paul,
261

Strauss, Leon,
369
,
390

Stravinsky, Igor,
115–16
,
177

Streeter's Chinese Restaurant,
32

Strindberg, August,
56

Strong, Anna Louise,
540–1

Strong, Edward E.,
258
,
317–18

Strout, Richard L.,
377–8

Stuckey, Sterling,
575
n
24

Sullivan, Noel,
612
n
27

Sumner, Charles,
35

Sumner, Gene,
577
n
7

Sumner, Minnie,
41
,
42
,
74
,
85
,
86
,
101
,
103
,
147
,
187
,
233
,
245
,
669
n
24
,
691
n
49
,
705
n
38

Sun Yat-sen,
188

Susskind, David,
528

Swaffer, Hannen,
234
,
610
n
16
,
611
n
24
,
647
n
2

Swahili,
174

Taboo
(later renamed
Voodoo
) (Wiborg),
43–5
,
48–53
,
58
,
581–2
n
23
,
583
n
5
,
584
n
8

Tadzhiks,
187

Taft, William H.,
4

Taft-Hartley Act,
321
,
322

Tairov, Alexander,
188

Tales of Manhattan
(film),
259–62
,
656
n
61
,
657
n
62

Talmadge, Norma,
49

Tambo, Oliver,
341
,
543

Tatler, The
,
90

Taylor, Alexander (“Ting”),
567
n
4

Taylor, Bill,
531

Taylor, “Shag,”
85–6

Teachers Normal School (Trenton),
28
,
29

Tearle, Godfrey,
89

Teichner, Helmut,
162

Tenney Committee,
307–9
,
318

Tennyson, Pen,
231
,
646
n
43

Terkel, Studs,
291

Terrell, Mary Church,
324
,
348–9
,
377
,
398
,
711
n
25

Terris, Norma,
159
,
239

Theatre Guild,
138
,
268
,
660
n
15

Theatre Union,
192

Theory and Practice of Socialism, The
(Strachey),
221

Thomas, Edna,
83

Thomas, Rachel,
232–5
,
729
n
5

Thompson, Ernest,
443
,
703
n
32

Thompson, Louise (Patterson),
170
,
375
,
388
,
700
n
12
,
701
n
17

Thompson, Robert,
368
,
379

Thorndike, Sybil,
xii
,
134
,
135
,
136
,
481
,
543
,
729
n
1

Thorpe, Jim,
34
,
584
n
11

Throckmorton, Cleon,
75
,
581
n
23

Thurman, Wallace,
61

Thurmond, J. Strom,
335

Tibbett, Lawrence,
111
,
125
,
299
,
603
n
6
,
622
n
25

Tiger, Edith,
462

Timofeyevna, Raisa,
469–70

Tisse, Edward,
185

Tito, Josip Broz,
325
,
381
,
383

Tobias, Channing H.,
295
,
333
,
344
,
392
,
681
n
16

“Today with Mrs. Roosevelt” (television show),
384–5

Toledano, Vicente Lombardo,
285

Toomer, Jean,
74

Torrence, Ridgely,
43
,
61
,
580
n
22

Toussaint L'Ouverture, Pierre Dominique,
17
,
104
,
166
,
182
,
190
,
194
,
633
n
25

Touvalou Houenou, Kojo (Prince of Dahomey),
74
,
129
,
590–1
n
15

Toynbee, Arnold,
624–5
n
41

Trachtenberg, Alexander,
755
n
16

trade unions,
see
labor unions

Transport Workers Union,
249
,
303

Trask, Hooper,
132

travel restrictions on PR,
see
Robeson, Paul: travel restrictions

Trenton Six,
337
,
397
,
685
n
3
,
n
7

Triebel, Carl O.,
318
,
678
n
5

Trinidad,
336
,
701
n
19

Trotter, Monroe,
26

Truman, Harry S,
296
,
297
,
298
,
301
,
303
,
304
,
307
,
316
,
321
,
324
,
325
,
334
,
335
,
337
,
348
,
359
,
363
,
381
,
383
,
387–8
,
390
,
434
,
676
n
39

antilynching legislation and,
307

election of 1948,
321
,
324
,
325
,
334
,
335

Korean War and,
387
,
388

Truman Doctrine,
321

Trumbo, Dalton,
396

Truth, Sojourner,
357

Tubman, Harriet,
357
,
367
,
485

Tukhachevsky, General,
186

Tully, Jim,
103
,
601
n
45

Tursunkulov, Khamrakul,
468–9

“Two Americans” (H.D.),
609
n
8

Tyler, Jerry,
706
n
44

Ulbricht, Walter,
486
,
748
n
36

Uline auditorium (Washington, D.C.),
251–2

Ulric, Leonore,
83
,
102

Un-American Committee,
see
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(later called
Goodbye
Uncle Tom
) (ER),
154
,
157
,
166
,
242
,
292–3
,
617–18
n
3

Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Wright),
225

Union of South Africa,
see
South Africa

U Nu,
431

U.S.S.R.,
see
Soviet Union

United Automobile Workers,
249
;
see
also
labor unions

United Electrical Workers,
366
;
see also
labor unions

United
Freedom
Fund,
400
,
403

United Nations,
296
,
397–8
,
436
,
669–70
n
2
,
673–4
n
26
,
681
n
19
,
705
n
41
,
718–19
n
16

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