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“Smoke, Lilies, and Jade,” 77–78, 79
on taking sides, 219–20
n-word
in correspondence, 199
in titles, 74
Odessa, USSR, 223
Ohio Anti-Slavery Society, 35
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, 213
O’Neill, Eugene, 10, 54, 162, 184
Ontario, Canada, 61
opera, black culture–inspired, 61–62
Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life magazine, 11–12, 18, 33, 50, 63, 74, 77, 104, 226–27
awards dinner, 8, 19–22, 49, 50
contest held by, 12, 13–15, 17, 19–20
Hughes’s letter to Bennett published in, 109
presentation of prizes by, 8–10
pan-African history, 37
Paris, France, 43, 46
Parker family, 110–11
Parsons, Elsie Clews, 99
Patterson, Louise Thompson. See Thompson (Patterson), Louise
Patterson, William L., 224
the Peeples, 154
Peterson, Dorothy, 50
Peterson, Sadie, 109
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 125
Philadelphia Jimmie’s, 54
Philadelphia Tribune, 93
Philips and Darling, 121
phrenology, 230
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 148
Pinkney, Colonel, 124
Pittsburgh Courier, 90, 93, 94
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 200, 208–9
politics
Hughes and, 182–83, 188, 234
Hurston and, 234, 235–36
Polk County, Florida, 140
Porgy, 131
Potts, Lucy. See Hurston, Lucy
the preliterate, 43
Price, Albert, 228
primitivism, 4–5, 71–73, 76, 85–88, 131–32, 136, 140, 153, 181–82
Princess Theater, 162
propaganda, 64–65
race riots, 11, 38–39
racial anthropology, 70
racial difference, 76
primitivism and, 72
theories of, 70–71, 230
racial injustice, 64, 65, 66–70, 76
racial justice, 241–42
racism, 148
Raleigh, North Carolina, 125
Rampersad, Arnold, 10, 20, 48–49, 70, 93, 169–70, 177, 239
Randolph, A. Philip, 8
Reagan, Caroline Dudley, 81, 82, 201
Reconstruction, 100
“red summer” of 1919, 38–39
the Reeds, 36
resentment, 65, 67, 68–69
La Révue Negre, 201
Richardson, Willis, 19
Richmond, Virginia, 125
Robeson, Eslanda, 225
Robeson, Paul, 9, 11, 89, 225
Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” 48
Roche, Emma Langdon, 106
Rockingham, North Carolina, 125
Rogers, Joel Augustus, 12
Samuel French agency, 192, 202
Sandburg, Carl, 23, 36–37
“Grass,” 37
“Jazz Fantasia,” 37
Saratoga Springs, New York, 61
Saturday Evening Post, 232, 234
Saturday Review of Literature, 60, 93
Savage, Augusta, 50
Savannah, Georgia, 123–24, 235
Savoy Ballroom, 20, 154–55, 175
Schuyler, George, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” 62–63
Scott, Dinah, 122
Scottsboro boys, 183
Scribner’s Magazine, 223
segregation, 100, 154
self-pity, 65
sexuality, 55, 79–80
sharecropping, 102
Sheen, Genevieve, 32
Sheen, Herbert, 32, 91–92, 100, 136
Sheldon, Edward, The Nigger, 74
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 182
Shuffle Along, 11
Shumlin, Herman, 201
Silvera, Edward, 94
Sissle, Noble, 11, 48, 51
slam poetry, 244
slave narratives, 42–43
slavery, 104, 117, 143
slave ships, 105
slave trade, 105
Small’s Paradise nightclub, 51, 54, 75, 82
Smith, Ada (Bricktop), 44
Smith, Bessie, 11, 120–21, 122
Smith, Clarence, 122
Smith, Maud, 122
Smith, Tom R., 119
social justice, 241–42
the South, 98–126, 127, 133, 135–36, 139, 140–44, 148, 149, 157, 174, 194, 227. See also specific locations
exodus of blacks from, 101–2
misconceptions about, 100–101
Southern Pines, North Carolina, 125
Soviet Union, 222–23
Spingarn, Amy, 52
Spingarn, Arthur, 184, 185, 204–5, 206–7, 208, 210, 211, 214–17
Spingarn, Joel Elias, 52
spirituals, 54, 92
SS Europa, 222–23
SS Malone, 42–43
Stalin, Josef, 223
Statesboro, Georgia, 123
St. Augustine, Florida, 91, 144
Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 61
Stein, Gertrude, 19
stereotypes, 19, 103–4, 161–62, 163
Stevens, Wallace, 19
Stieglitz, Alfred, 54
Still, William Grant, 11
St. Louis, Missouri, 102
Stoddard, Lothrop, 70
street lit, 244
“Striver’s Row,” 51
student strikes, 148
the Stylus, 33
Sullivan, Noël, 226
“sundown towns,” 100
The Survey, 81
Survey Graphic, 18
“Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro,” 18
“New Negro” issue, 18
Survey Midmonthly, 18
Sydney, Iolanthe, 51
Talbot County, Georgia, 114–15
“talented tenth,” 123
talking book, trope of, 42–43
Taylor, Robert R., 108
theater, 11, 31, 137–38, 161–62, 198–99
Theatre Guild, 194, 200, 201, 205, 209
Thompson (Patterson), Louise, 5–6, 85, 148–52, 154, 190
account of Mule-Bone’s composition, 208
in Cleveland, Ohio, 195
co-founds Harlem Suitcase Theater, 224
in Harlem, 159
Hughes and, 154–55, 159, 168–70, 175–78, 184–87, 195–96, 201–4, 207–13, 224, 228, 239, 241
Hurston and, 158–59, 170, 175–78, 184–87, 196, 201–4, 207–12, 218, 225, 228, 234, 239
job with Congregational Education Society, 186
Locke and, 150, 188
marriages of, 218, 224
Mason and, 150–52, 154, 160, 166–74, 175, 186–88, 201–2, 212
in the South, 149
travels to Moscow, USSR, 222–23, 234
Thompson, Samuel, 141
Thurman, Wallace, 5, 50–51, 64, 74, 77–78, 94, 131, 139, 143, 154–55, 177, 212, 217–18
The Blacker the Berry, 148
“Cordelia the Crude,” 79
death of, 226
Fire!! and, 79, 81
“Fire Burns,” 80
homosexuality of, 148
Infants of the Spring, 51, 56–57, 221–22
marriage to Thompson, 148
Toluca, Mexico, 38–39
“tom-tom,” metaphor of, 73
Toomer, Jean, 9, 33, 63, 94, 180
Cane, 12, 89, 116, 117
family of, 116–18
Toomer, John, 116–17
Toomer plantation, 116–17
Truth, Sojourner, 104
Turkestan, 57
Tuskegee, Alabama, 107, 111, 112–14
Tuskegee Institute. See Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers
The Tuskegee Messenger, 107, 112
Tuskegee Normal School for Colored Teachers, 107–8, 112–14
Tuskegee’s Movable Sc
hool, 109–11, 112, 113
Tynes, Harcourt, 51
Uncle Remus, 117
Universal Negro Improvement Association, 33
University of Kansas, 36
University of New Orleans, 139
Urban League, 74, 148, 183
US Highway System, 125
Van der Veer Quick, Charlotte. See Mason, Charlotte Osgood
Van Doren, Carl, 10, 11, 13
Van Doren, Dorothy, 10
Van Doren, Mark, 10
Van Doren family, 10
Vanity Fair, 20, 76, 121
Van Vechten, Carl, 19–24, 48, 53–56, 61–62, 73, 81, 82, 92, 119, 128
Bessie Smith and, 120–21
at Carnegie Hall, 89
correspondence with Hughes, 211–12
departure for Europe, 170
exoticism and, 73
Harlem Renaissance and, 76–77
Hughes and, 92–93, 108, 115–18, 171, 185, 194–95, 199–201, 204, 225, 228, 235, 239
Hurston and, 118, 186, 188, 194, 197, 200–201, 204, 224, 231, 232, 237
Locke and, 215
at New World Cabaret, 72
“Niggerati” and, 76–77
Nigger Heaven, 74–75, 80, 94, 140
Vanity Fair article on the blues, 121
Vaudeville Comedy Club, 20, 54
Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (Virginia State University), 35
voodoo, 141–42
Walker, A’Lelia, 51, 55, 144, 219
Walker, Alice, 231
“In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” 243
“To Hell with Dying,” 243
“Turning Into Love: Some Thoughts on Surviving and Meeting Langston Hughes,” viii–ix
Walker, Margaret, 236
Wall, Cheryl, 129
Waller, Fats, 51
Wall Street crash, 154
Walrond, Eric, 14, 48, 94
Ward, Joseph, 113
Wardman Park Hotel, 51–52
war drum, metaphor of, 72–73
Washington, Booker T., 107, 113
Washington, D.C., 32–33, 49, 51–52
Washington Eagle, 93
Wasserman, Eddie, 81, 128
watermelon, negative connotations of, 103–4
Waters, Ethel, 11, 41, 51, 82, 128
Watson, Steven, 79–80
West, Dorothy, 139
Westfield, New Jersey, 154, 156, 166, 174, 185, 203, 216
Wharton, Edith, 90
whippings, 102
White, Clarence Cameron, 62
White, Edward, 75
White, Walter, 12, 41, 48, 76, 225–26
white American literature, 243, 244
Whitman, Walt, 46
“I Hear America Singing,” 44
Leaves of Grass, 43, 93
Williams, Bert, 41
Williams, H. Rogers, 104
Williams, Laudee, 155
Williams, Lucy Ariel, 104
“Northboun’,” 104
Williams, Mary, 108
Williams, William Carlos, 44
Wilson, Frank
Meek Mose, 162
Pa Williams’ Gal, 162
Wood, Clement
Mountain, 14
Nigger, 14, 74
Poets of America, 14
Woodson, Carter G., 49, 99, 106, 113, 140
Woollcott, Alexander, 10, 15, 49
Workers Monthly, 183
The World Tomorrow, 50, 64, 147
Wright, Richard, 34, 69, 229, 236, 236, 242
xenophobia, 11
YMCA, 20
You Mus’ Be Bo’n Ag’in, 162, 199, 210
Ziegfeld, Florenz, 54
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