Paul Robeson (186 page)

United Nations Conference (1945),
296–7
,
669
n
2

United Negro and Allied Veterans of America,
426

U.S. Information Agency,
472

Unity Theatre (London),
213
,
223–4
,
642
n
22
,
n
23

Urban League,
66
,
285
,
330
,
359

Ure, Mary,
476
,
477
,
543
,
733
n
32

USO tour (1945),
297–8

Uzbekistan,
211
,
468
,
469
,
638
n
66

Van Doren, Carl,
74

Van Doren, Dorothy,
605
n
14

Van Doren, Mark,
74

Vanguard records,
460
,
727
n
33

Van Gyseghem, André,
167
,
192
,
223
,
543
,
549
,
614
n
40
,
621
n
23
,
632
n
22

Vanity Fair
,
82
,
103

Van Vechten, Carl (Carlo),
72–4
,
79
,
80
,
81
,
83
,
84
,
85
,
86
,
87
,
89
,
90
,
91–3
,
94
,
98
,
99
,
100
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
106
,
115
,
118
,
121–2
,
127
,
131
,
137
,
139
,
145
,
147
,
151
,
154
,
157
,
161
,
170
,
179
,
185
,
195
,
198
,
209
,
229–30
,
235
,
246
,
280–1
,
292
,
293
,
356
,
390
,
590
n
13
,
593
n
26
,
593–4
n
31
,
594
n
32
,
596
n
45
,
598
n
16
,
606
n
33
,
622
n
25
,
637
n
55
,
748
n
38

1939 failure by PR to contact,
229

on ER's first draft for book on PR,
121–2
,
606
n
33

loan from Otto Kahn to the Robesons and,
83–5

Nigger Heaven
,
100

on Russian sympathies of PR,
235

PR as spirituals singer and,
78–81

Van Vechten, Fania,
see
Marinoff, Fania

Van Volkenburg, Ellen (Nellie),
122
,
133–6
,
138–9
,
611
n
24

Varney, Walter K.,
106
,
109
,
112

Vaughan, Sarah,
284

Vesey, Denmark,
230

Victor Company (records),
82
,
86
,
98
,
236

Vietnam,
713
n
42

Villefranche, 1925 stay in,
93–7

Vinson, Carl,
337

voice,
see
Robeson, Paul: singing

Voodoo
, see
Taboo

Voroshilov,
470

Vosseller, Elizabeth,
13

Vreeland, Frank,
104

Vronsky, Vitya,
128

Vyshinsky, Andrei,
381

Wagner, Richard,
176

Wailes, Chatman C.,
397

Waldron, Eric,
74
,
591–2
n
16

Wales,
191
,
227–8
,
414
,
493

Walker, A'Lelia,
82
,
102
,
131
,
595
n
36

Walker, George,
44
,
96

Wallace, Edgar,
115
,
122
,
178
,
180
,
605
n
16

Wallace, Henry A.,
285
,
299
,
300
,
316
,
317
,
321
,
322
,
324–6
,
328
,
330
,
331
,
335
,
359
,
367
,
370
,
383
,
388
,
686
n
9

Walls, Bishop William Jacob,
344–5
,
376
,
392
,
398
,
428

Walls of Jericho, The
(Fisher),
33

Walpole, Hugh,
91
,
118
,
136

Walter, Francis,
440–2
,
677
n

Wanamaker, Sam,
476
,
477
,
478
,
733
n
32

Ward, Harry F.,
443

Warren, Earl,
446

Warren, Guy,
547

Warsaw Ghetto,
352
,
689
n
40
,
690
n
43
;
see also
“Zog Nit Keynmal”

Washington, Booker T.,
4
,
26
,
30
,
67

Washington, D.C.

1949 concert in,
377–8

racial riot in (1919),
32

Washington, Fredi,
103
,
168
,
279
,
601
n
45
,
622
n
25
,
665
n
47

Washington, Joseph,
609
n
4

Washington, Val,
471–2

Washington and Lee College,
22–3

Washington Committee for Aid to China,
250–1

Washington School,
12

“Water Boy,”
79

Waters, Ethel,
259
,
260
,
261
,
666
n
5

Weaver, Robert C.,
495

Webb, Beatrice,
198

Webb, Chick,
177

Webb, Sidney,
198

Webster, Margaret,
263–5
,
268–71
,
275–7
,
632
n
20
,
654
n
51
,
658
n
3
,
661
n
24
,
663
n
37
,
n
41
,
n
43
,
665
n
47

“Weepin' Mary,”
92

Weigl, Helene,
486–7

Weill, Kurt,
177
,
230
,
645
n
41

Welch, Elizabeth,
204
,
207
,
543

Welles, Orson,
299–300

Wells, Aaron,
409
,
410
,
435
,
438–9

Wells, H. G.,
201
,
212
,
234

Welsh miners,
228
,
231
;
see also
Wales

Wescott, Glenway,
70
,
93
,
94

West, Dorothy,
637
n
52

West, Rebecca,
94–5
,
100
,
143
,
589–90
n
4
,
599
n
22

West Africa
(magazine),
90
,
611
n
23

West African Students Union,
198

Westchester Committee for Law and Order,
366
,
368

Westfield, New Jersey,
9

Whale, James,
196

Wheeler, Monroe,
70
,
93
,
94
,
97

White, Clarence Cameron,
615
n
43
,
665
n
2

White, Gladys,
70
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
80
,
86
,
100
,
102

White, Josh,
238
,
284
,
391

White, Steve,
20

White, Walter,
56
,
70
,
72
,
73
,
74
,
76
,
79
,
80
,
82
,
86
,
95
,
100
,
102
,
171
,
229
,
235
,
239
,
252
,
255
,
280
,
324
,
325
,
346
,
590
n
13
,
591
n
15
,
612
n
27
,
656
n
57
,
673
n
24
,
681
n
18
,
n
19
,
n
20
,
688
n
30
,
716
n
5

developing rift with PR,
306
,
322–3
,
680–1
n
16

early (1920s) friendship with PR,
117
,
594
n
32

Ebony
attack on PR (1951),
394–5
,
704
n
36

response to PR's Paris speech (1949),
343
,
348–9
,
687
n
19
,
688
n
22

on Spingarn medal to PR,
299–301
,
669
n
28

Whiteman, Lovett Fort,
629
n
7

Whitfield, Mrs.,
476

Whitley, Frank,
431

Whitman, Charles H.,
573–4
n
16

Whitney, A. F.,
321

Wiborg, Mary Hoyt (Hoytie),
43–5
,
48
,
51
,
53

see also
Taboo

Wilcox, Herbert,
607
n
34

Wilcoxon, Henry,
209–10
,
638
n
61

Wild Deer
(Lewis),
636
n
50

Wiles, McKinley,
435
,
439

Wiley (senator),
328
,
330

Wilkerson, Doxey,
330–1
,
383
,
652
n
34
,
670
n
6
,
675
n
33

Wilkins, Aminda Badeau,
37

Wilkins, Roy,
105–6
,
146
,
226
,
285
,
299
,
319
,
343–4
,
347
,
348
,
349
,
374
,
385
,
395
,
396
,
447
,
448
,
460
,
528
,
549
,
679
n
5
,
681
n
20
,
688
n
29

PR denounced by (1949),
347–9

Wilkinson, Ellen,
213
,
225

William and Mary College,
22

Williams, Aubrey,
442

Williams, Bert,
44
,
96

Williams, Frances,
181
,
630
n
12
,
710
n
19

Williams, James Milo (“Ink”),
34

Williams, Mary Lou,
283
,
285

Willkie, Wendell,
253

Wills, Henry,
52

Wills, J. Elder,
207

Wills, Nancy,
488

Wilson, Frank,
105
,
261
,
588
n
48
,
622
n
25

Wilson, J. Dover,
449
,
724
n
7

Wilson, Teddy,
283

Wilson, Woodrow,
4
,
31

Wiltwyck School for Boys,
656
n
59

Winchell, Walter,
337
,
372

Winninger, Charles,
159

Winston, Hattie,
761
n
12

Winston, Henry,
331
,
363
,
382–3
,
422
,
423
,
518
,
549
,
679–80
n
11
,
755
n
16

Win the Peace Organization,
304
,
305
,
316
,
673
n
23
,
678
n
2

Witherspoon Elementary School,
6

Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church (Princeton),
6–8
,
567
n
6
,
568
n
9
,
n
11

Witt, Nathan,
388
,
389

Woldin, Sam,
11
,
570
n
17

Wolfe, Jacques,
655
n
53