Paul Robeson (187 page)

Wong, Anna May,
124
,
136

Wood, John S.,
359

Wood, Sam,
698
n
34

Wooding, Sam,
132

Woodward, Isaac,
305
,
673
n
24

Woolf, Leonard,
162
,
163
,
449

Woolf, Virginia,
162
,
163
,
212

Woollcott, Alexander,
43–4
,
64
,
102
,
159
,
229
,
238
,
568
n
9
,
602
n
47
,
633
n
30
,
648
n
12

World Convention of Religions,
378

World Peace Congress (1949), PR's speech at,
341–50

World Peace Council,
386
,
392
,
482
,
733
n
29

World War II,
232–5
,
252–3

as “imperialist” war,
248

invasion of the Soviet Union,
252

PR's views on,
233–5
,
238–9
,
243

World Youth Festival (1959),
479–80
,
734
n
38

Wright, Corinne,
see
Cook, Corinne

Wright, James T.,
425
,
432

Wright, Louis,
42
,
300
,
322
,
348
,
688
n
31

Wright, Richard,
197
,
225
,
243
,
626
n
47
,
633
n
25
,
643
n
29
,
692
n
55

Wycherly, Margaret,
43
,
44
,
48
,
53
,
58

Yakuts,
187–8

Yergan, Max,
206
,
210
,
229
,
243
,
248
,
249
,
256–7
,
285
,
298
,
300–1
,
303–4
,
318
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330–3
,
346
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349
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440–1
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548
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670
n
2
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n
4
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671
n
14
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672
n
21
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683
n
37
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684
n
42
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n
43
,
705
n
41

Council on African Affairs split and,
330–3
,
683
n
37
684
n
39–43

PR's Paris speech denounced by (1949),
346

as PR's political liaison,
257

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

Young, Andrew,
547

Young, Coleman,
324
,
401
,
528

Young, Roland,
207

Young, Stark,
278

Young, Thomas W.,
360
,
441

Zhukov, Georgi,
496

Ziegfeld, Florenz,
113
,
159

Zilliacus, Konni,
341

“Zog Nit Kaynmal,”
353

Zolotow, Sam,
276

Zuloaga,
76

TEXTUAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

Edward Burns:
Excerpts from letters of Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein from
The Gertrude Stein
—
Carl Van Vechten Letters: 1913–1946,
edited by Edward Burns. Copyright © 1986 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of Edward Burns.

Columbia Pictures Publications
and
Fred Fisher Music Co., Inc.:
Excerpt from “Ballad for Americans” by John LaTouche and Earl Robinson. Copyright 1939, 1940. Renewed 1966, 1967 by Robbins Music Corp. & Fred Fisher Music Co., Inc. Rights of Robbins Music Corp. assigned to SBK Catalogue Partnership. All rights for SBK Catalogue Partnership controlled and administered by SBK Robbins Catalog Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured.

Yale University Press:
Excerpts from letters of Carl Van Vechten from
Letters of Carl Van Vechten,
selected and edited by Bruce Kellner. Copyright © 1987 by Yale University. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

Special thanks to all those who granted permission to use the following previously unpublished material:

Excerpts from letters by W. Bryher are reprinted by permission of the Estate of W. Bryher courtesy of Schaffner Agency, Inc.; excerpts from letters by Pearl S. Buck and Richard J. Walsh are reprinted by permission of the Pearl S. Buck Family Trust, Edgar S. Walsh, Trustee; excerpt from a letter by Countee Cullen, copyright 1928 by Countee Cullen, copyright renewed 1956 by Ida M. Cullen, are reprinted by permission of G.R.M. Associates, agents for the Estate of Ida M. Cullen; excerpts from letters by Nancy Cunard from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, are reprinted by permission of the Estate of Nancy Cunard, courtesy of Patrick Seale Associates; excerpts from a letter by Ben Davis are reprinted by permission of Nina Davis Goodman; excerpt from a letter by H. D., copyright © 1988 by Perdita Schaffner, are reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, agents for the Estate of H. D.; excerpt from a letter by Dr. Max Fink is reprinted by permission of Max Fink, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY at Stony Brook; excerpts from letters by Emma Goldman are reprinted by permission of the Estate of Emma Goldman, courtesy of Ian Ballantine, Executor; excerpts from a letter by Oscar Hammerstein II, copyright © 1989 by the Estate of Oscar Hammerstein II, are reprinted by permission of the Estate of Oscar Hammerstein II; excerpts from letters by Lillian Hellman are reprinted by permission of The Literary Property Trustees Under the Will of Lillian Hellman; excerpts from letters by Langston Hughes are reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated, agents for the Estate of Langston Hughes; excerpt from a manuscript by Lincoln Kirstein from the Knopf Library at the University of Texas is reprinted by permission of Lincoln Kirstein; excerpts from letters by Alfred A. Knopf are reprinted by permission of Helen N. Knopf; excerpts from letters by Claude McKay from the Paul Robeson Archives at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C., are reprinted by kind permission of Hope McKay Virtue; excerpts from letters by Fania Marinoff are reprinted by permission of the Estate of Fania Marinoff; excerpts from letters by Eugene O'Neill and excerpts from his diary are reprinted by permission of the Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University; excerpt from a letter by Louis Sheaffer is reprinted by permission of Louis Sheaffer; excerpts from letters by Carl Van Vechten are reprinted by permission of the Estate of Carl Van Vechten, Joseph Solomon, Executor; excerpt from a letter by Margaret Webster is reprinted by permission of Diana Raymond for the Estate of Margaret Webster; excerpt from a letter by Glenway Wescott is reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated, agents for the Estate of Glenway Wescott; excerpts from letters by Walter White are reprinted by permission of Jane White Viazzi; and excerpts from letters by Max Yergan from the Paul Robeson Archives at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D.C., are reprinted by permission of his daughter Mary Y. Hughes.

About the Author

Martin Duberman is distinguished professor emeritus of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he founded the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the first university-based LGBT research center in the United States. He is the author of more than twenty books, including three memoirs about his experience as a politically active gay man, and
The Martin Duberman Reader
(2013). A finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Duberman has received a Bancroft Prize, two Lambda Literary Awards, the American Historical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2012, Amherst College presented Duberman with an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters.

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