“Connolly Scores O’Dwyer on Reds.” New York Times, 3 October 1941.
“Mayor Is Assured of Labor Backing. “ New York Times, 9 October 1941, 46.
“Group Friction Here Held Undemocratic: Pearl Buck Speaks at Rally of Council on African Affairs.” New York Times, 9 April 1942, 7:4.
“South Africa’s Aid in War Described.” New York Times, 26 January 1943, 6:7.
“‘Act Together Now for Unity, Protection, Victory’—Yergan.” People’s Voice, 3 July 1943.
“Council Hails USSR-Ethiopia Agreement.” People’s Voice, 10 July 1943.
“Cleveland NNC Sponsors Unity Victory Meeting” and “National Organizations Unite on New Program.” People’s Voice, 17 July 1943.
“Yergan Sees South Africa Poll Vital to War.” Daily Worker, 21 July 1943.
“Harlem Disorders Bring Quick Action by City and Army.” New York Times, 2 August 1943, 1:1, 16.
“NNC Launches Program to Democratize Arts” and Ransom, Llewellyn, “Racial Element Not Present in New York Riot: Leaders Act Quickly to Restore Law and Order.” People’s Voice, 7 August 1943.
“Alphaeus Hunton Joins African Affairs Council,” “Yergan Asks Mayors to Act against Riots,” and “South African Elections Viewed as Pro-War Victory.” People’s Voice, 14 August 1943.
“City-Wide Council of Races Formed to Probe, Wipe Out Riot Causes.” People’s Voice, 28 August 1943.
“Future of Africa Is Future of World.” People’s Voice, 25 September 1943.
“Hunter College Meeting Hears about Harlem.” People’s Voice, 2 October 1943.
“National Negro Congress Greets UAW Convention” and “NNC Announces Lobby to End Jimcro in Army.” People’s Voice, 16 October 1943.
“Carver School in Harlem Has Democratic Curriculum” and “Dr. Max Yergan Pleads for Unity,” People’s Voice, 23 October 1943.
“Post-War Africa Theme of Series.” People’s Voice, 13 November 1943.
“National Negro Congress Opens Office in D.C.” People’s Voice, 20 November 1943.
“Cultural Group Stresses Negro Art Contribution.” People’s Voice, 4 December 1943.
“Teacher-Unionist Joins Negro Congress Staff.” People’s Voice, 18 December 1943.
“Harlem Set for Action Conference.” People’s Voice, 11 March 1944, 13.
“Would Help Colonies: International Agency to Rule in Africa Is Proposed.” New York Times, 15 April 1944, 5.
Streator, George. “Negro Praised in Fascism Defeat.” New York Times, 31 May 1945, 38:1.
“Colonial Empires Assailed in Rally.” New York Times, 7 June 1946, 7:1.
“Action on Bilbo Asked by Yergan.” People’s Voice, 29 June 1946.
Letter to the Editor. New York Times, 6 July 1946, 14:7.
“Negro Answer to Bilbo Gets Nationwide Hookup.” People’s Voice, 7 September 1946.
“Bids Labor, Negroes Join to Fight Bias.” New York Times, 29 September 1946, 4:1.
“Anti-Lynching Pledges Asked.” New York Times, 19 October 1946, 34:1.
Streator, George. “Negro Youth Told Future Is in South.” New York Times, 21 October 1946, 31:1.
“Smuts Pulls a Bilbo on Africa.” People’s Voice, 26 October 1946.
Wood, Lewis. “90 Groups, Schools Named on U.S. List as Being Disloyal.” New York Times, 5 December 1947, 1, 18.
“Yergan African Council Plot Flops.” Daily Worker, 28 May 1948.
“Battles Left Wing for Group’s Office: Dr. Yergan, Leader of Council on African Affairs, Asks Aid of the Police, Courts.” New York Times, 29 May 1948.
“No Cause for Action: Hogan Takes Stand after Study of Dr. Yergan’s Complaint.” New York Times, 2 June 1948.
“Yergan Accuses Five of Assault.” New York Times, 20 June 1948, 24.
“Court Frees 3 Men Accused by Yergan.” New York Times, 29 June 1948.
“Yergan Seeks Court Aid: Asks Invalidation of Ouster from Council on African Affairs Post.” New York Times, 25 August 1948.
“Two Yergan Suits United: Council on African Affairs Case to Be Heard Sept. 20.” New York Times, 26 August 1948.
Porter, Russell. “Spy Case Jury Hears Sayre, Then Recesses Until Jan. 3.” New York Times, 23 December 1948, 1, 8.
“An American Negro’s View of Africa: Dr. Max Yergan Utters a Warning.” East African Standard (Nairobi), 7 April 1951. (Re: March 15–19 visit en route to New Delhi Congress of Cultural Freedom.)
Narain, K. V. “Totalitarianism Menaces Freedom of Thought, Indian Cultural Congress Warns.” American Reporter (New Delhi), 4 April 1951, 11 (enclosure, Yergan to E. Roosevelt, 2 May 1951).
“Negroes Should Shun Reds as ‘Conspiracy,’ Yergan Tells Senators.” Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 14 May 1952.
“Ruse on Negroes Laid to Reds.” New York Times, 14 May 1952, 12.
Lautier, Louis. “Yeargan Forsakes Communists, Finds They Mislead Negroes.” Norfolk Journal and Guide, 24 May 1952.
“South African Leaders Blast Yergan.” Freedom 2:10 (October 1952).
Kihss, Peter. “Artie Shaw Says He Was Red ‘Dupe.’“ New York Times, 5 May 1953.
“List of Persons Named as Reds.” New York Times, 5 May 1953.
Matthews, Z. K. “An African Leader Exposes Max Yergan.” Freedom 3:6 (May 1953).
White, Walter. Letter to the Editor. New York Times, 10 August 1953.
Sisulu, Walter. “What Was Dr. Max Yergan’s Mission to South Africa?” African Lodestar (Transvaal ANC Youth League), November 1953. Carter-Karis Collection of Documents on South Africa, reel 2:DA 16/3:85/1.
“Dr. Max Yergan Is Dead at 82: Black Leader and an Educator.” Obituary. New York Times, 13 April 1975.
“Max Yergan, Educator and Civil Rights Leader, Dies.” Jet, 8 May 1975, 30.
Rusher, William A. “Max Yergan, RIP.” National Review, 9 May 1975, 496–97.
Part 5: References to Max and/or Susie Yergan Appearing in Periodicals Published in Africa
Alice Times, Seymour and Peddie Gazette (Alice, Ciskei, Eastern Cape, South Africa)
“Who Is Max Yergan? Vindication of Local Missionary.” 23 May 1929.
The Bantu World (Johannesburg)
Bryan, Helen R. “Max Yergan, Uplifter of South Africa” (in 2 parts). Part 1: 14 January 1933, 9. Part 2: 21 January 1933, 9. (Reprinted from Crisis 39:12 [December 1932].)
“Fort Hare News.” 5 September 1936.
“Social and Personal News: Who’s Who in the News This Week.” 21 September 1935, 4.
“More News from Different Centres: Fort Hare News.” 5 September 1936. (Re: July 30 departure of the Yergans from SA.)
[Smith, Homer.] “Dr Max Yergan on South Africa’s Native Policy.” 8 May 1937.
Cape Argus (Cape Town, South Africa)
“Spreading the Light.” 15 May 1929.
“Bantustan Policy Is Praised by Visiting Negro.” 26 November 1964.
“Matanzima on Negro’s Stay in Transkei.” 27 November 1964.
Daily Chronicle (Nairobi, Kenya)
19–25 March 1951
East African Standard (Nairobi, Kenya)
“An American Negro’s View of Africa: Dr. Max Yergan Utters a Warning.” 7 April 1951. Reporting Yergan visit and Nairobi Press Conference.
Ilange Lase Natal Ngongqibelo
“Items about the Negroes (Culled by X), Politics: Yergan vs. Robeson.” 18 June 1949.
Imvo Zabantsundu (African Opinion) (King William’s Town)
“Native Social Life.” 20 March 1922.
“Student’s Christian Association (Report for 1923 by the Travelling Secretary, Mr. Max Yergan, B. A.).” 25 March 1924.
“Max Yergan.” 4 April 1922 (Xhosa).
“Max Yergan.” 27 April 1926.
“Abantu” (People). 25 May 1926 (Xhosa).
[Note concerning establishment of £30 bursaries by Transkei Bunga.] 2 December 1927.
“Ama £5,000 ku Nokoleji!” 13 December 1927 (Xhosa). (Announcing Rockefeller award for construction of
Public Hall on Fort Hare campus.)
“General Notes: Another Fort Hare Gift.” (English translation.) Op. cit.
Other South African Newspapers:
“American Negro on Race Relations Mission.” Friend, 14 October 1948.
Sunday Express, 8 November 1964.
“Negro in a White Hotel.” Cape Times, 20 November 1964.
“All Right for Negro, Why Not Kaiser, Asks Paper.” Daily Dispatch (East London, South Africa), 25 November 1964. Johannesburg Star, 25 November 1964.
“Transkei Paper Asks: Why Not Matanzima? Negro ‘White’ Hotel Guest.” Rand Daily Mail, 27 November 1964.
“The Joke of the Year.” (East London) Daily Dispatch, 27 November 1964. Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg), 27 November 1964.
Editorial, Umthunywa (Umtata, Transkei, Cape), 27 November 1964.
Part 6: Written References to Radio Broadcasts Aired in Which Max Yergan Was an Interviewee, Speaker, or Subject
Yergan talks on “The Darker Races and the War” and FEPC, WINS, 7 April 1942, 12:45–1:00 p.m. Joe Bostic, “Dial Time.” People’s Voice, 11 April 1942, 29.
Frieda Neugebauer, Publications Editor, Council on African Affairs, discusses “Africa’s Strategic Role in the War,” Lisa Sergio Program, WQXR, 1 May 1942, 10:00 a.m. Joe Bostic, “Dial Time.” People’s Voice, 2 May 1942, 29.
Frieda Neugebauer guest, “Those Who Have Made Good,” with Clifford Burdette, WNYC, 24 May 1942, 4 P.M. Joe Bostic, “Dial Time.” People’s Voice, 23 May 1942, 29.
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Yergan, Ferdinand Smith, and Hope Stevens speak to quell Harlem residents, WABC, 1 August 1943. “Harlem Disorders Bring Quick Action by City and Army.” New York Times, 2 August 1943, 1, 16.
“Authority on Africa Our Special Speaker.” Special Speaker, 6 February 1944, 8:45 p.m. EDT, 9.45 p.m. ADT, Trans-Canada Network, CBC Program Schedule (issued by Press and Information Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), Eastern Regional, Davenport Road, Toronto, Canada, Week of 6 February 1944, 1.
Yergan speaks on “The Atlantic Charter and Colonial People in Africa.” CBC, Toronto, Trans-Canada Network. Congress Vue 1:10 (March 1944): 6.
Yergan participates as one of a group of Negro leaders in Roundtable Discussion heard over Mutual Network in rebuttal to Mississippi’s Senator Thomas G. Bilbo. “Negro Answer to Bilbo Gets Nationwide Hookup.” People’s Voice, 7 September 1946, 5.
USIA Broadcast for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 27 March 1951 (ref. State Dept. Dispatch).
Part 7: Yergan-Related Testimony Offered at Legislative Hearings
Carter, Edward Clark. Hearings, Institute of Pacific Relations. 27 March 1952.
Field, Frederick V. Testimony. U.S. Senate. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings on the Institute of Pacific Relations. 28 March 1952.
Funn, Dorothy Kelso. Testimony. U.S. House of Representatives. Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities. Investigation of Communist Activities in the Philadelphia Area—Part 2. 17 November 1953.
Steele, Walter S. Testimony. House Un-American Affairs Committee. 21 July 1947.
Tobias, Channing Heggie. U.S. Congress. Senate. Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations. U.S. Senate, 82nd Congress, First Session on Nomination of Channing Tobias to Be Alternate Representative of the United States at Sixth General Assembly of the United Nations. 18 October 1951.
Yergan, Max. Testimony. U.S. Senate. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings on the Institute of Pacific Relations. 13 May 1952.
Part 8: Other Unpublished Materials Bearing on Max Yergan’s Life
DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS
Berman, Edward Henry. “Education in Africa and America: A History of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1911–45.” Columbia University, Ed.D. 1970.
Coan, Josephus R. “The Expansion of Missions of the A.M.E. Church in South Africa, 1896–1908.” Hartford Seminary Foundation, Ph.D. 1961.
Campbell, James. “Our Father, Our Children: The African Methodist Church in the United States and South Africa.” Stanford University, Ph.D. 1990.
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. “Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D. 1992.
Harr, Wilbur C. “The Negro as an American Protestant Missionary in Africa.” University of Chicago Divinity School, Ph.D. 1945.
Heyman, Richard David. “The Role of Carnegie Corporation in African Education, 1925–1960.” Teachers College, Columbia University, Ed.D. 1969.
Hughes, Cicero Alvin. “Toward a Black United Front: The National Negro Congress Movement.” Ohio University, Ph.D. 1982.
Hunter, Gary Jerome. “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work: Black Urban Boycott Movements during the Depression, 1929–1941.” University of Michigan, Ph.D. 1977.
Jenkins, Clara Barnes. “An Historical View of Shaw University, 1865–1963.” University of Pittsburgh, Ed.D. 1965.
Johns, Sheridan Waite, III. “Marxism-Leninism in a Multi-Racial Environment: The Origins and Early History of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1914–1932.” Harvard University, Ph.D. 1965.
Keto, Clement Tsehloane. “American Involvement in South Africa, 1870–1915: The Role of Americans in the Creation of Modern South Africa.” Georgetown University, Ph.D. 1972.
Kifer, Allen. “The Negro under the New Deal, 1933–1941.” University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. 1961.
Lawrence, Charles R. “Negro Organizations in Crisis: Depression, New Deal, World War Two.” Columbia University, Ph.D. 1953.
Marable, William Manning. “African Nationalist: The Life of John Langalibalele Dube.” University of Maryland, Ph.D. 1976.
Morsell, John Albert. “The Political Behavior of Negroes in New York City.” Columbia University, Ph.D. 1950.
Naison, Mark D. “The Communist Party in Harlem: 1928–1936.” Columbia University, Ph.D. 1975.
Orr, Rodney Hugh. “African American Missionaries to East Africa, 1900 – 1926: A Study of the Ethnic Reconnection of the Gospel.” University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. 1998.
Page, Carol M. “Black America in White South Africa: Church and State Reaction to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cape Colony and the Transvaal, 1896–1910.” University of Edinburgh, Ph.D. 1978.
Perlman, Daniel J. “Stirring the White Conscience: The Life of George Edmund Haynes.” New York University, Ph.D. 1972.
Solomon, Mark D. “Red and Black: Negroes and Communism, 1929–1932.” Harvard University, Ph.D. 1972.
Streater, John Baxter. “The National Negro Congress, 1936–1947.” University of Cincinnati, Ph.D. 1981.
Tillman, Nathaniel Patrick, Jr. “Walter Francis White: A Study in Interest Group Leadership.” University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. 1961.
THESES AND SEMINAR PAPERS
Anthony, David H., III. “Max Yergan: A Pan African Enigma.” M.A. Thesis (History), University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1975.
Faison, Marvin L. “Max Yergan: The South Africa Years, 1921–1936.” Columbia University.
Harper, Marieta. “Case Study of the Relationship of Max Yergan and Paul Robeson in the Historical Development of the Council on African Affairs.” Seminar Paper (History), Howard University, 1974.
Herndon, Jane Walter. “Henry McNeal Turner: Exponent of American Negritude.” M.A. Thesis (History), Georgia State College, 1967.
Weiss, Melville. “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work.” M.A. Thesis (History), Columbia University, 1941.
MANUSCRIPTS
Kerr, Alexander. “Visit of Max Yergan, M.A., to India (n.d., ca. 1928).” Copy courtesy of Ms. Ruth Hartson, formerly of International Division, Young Men’s Christian Association, New York City, 1975.
INTERVIEWS
Aptheker, Herbert. San Jose, Calif., 16 September 1988.
Bam, Villiers G. Maseru. Telephone interview, Lesotho.
Beichman, Arnold. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 13 December 1993.
Daniels-Halisi, Clyde. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1976–1977.
Duberman, Martin Bauml. Telephone interview, 27 January 1985.
Edgar, Robert Russell. Audiotape extract of interview with Govan A. M. Mbeki, South Africa, August 1990.
———. Transcript from an interview with Edwin Mofutsanyana, Lesotho, n.d.
———. Notes from interview with Mrs. Edgar Thamae, Lesotho, 22 May 1985.
———. Notes from interview with W. M. Tsotsi, Lesotho, 11 March 1985.
Fobo, Fanana “Roch.” Roma, Lesotho, 8 February 1988.
Hill, Robert A. Madison, Wisconsin, 1980.
Honono, N. “Chucha.” University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 5 March 1977.
Jordan, Phyllis (Ntantala). Telephone interview, 20 May 1974.
Khabele, Joan. Maseru and Roma, Lesotho, l987–1988.
Mafeje, Archie. University of Dar es Salaam, 5 March 1977; and Hotel Victoria, Maseru, Lesotho, 24 December 1987.
Mahomo, Nana. Madison, Wisconsin, May 1976.
———. London, England, June 1976.
Mbeki, Govan Archibald M. Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 2000.
Mesnick, Ed. Telephone interview, 19 April 1994.
Mohapeloa, J. M., Maseru, Lesotho, 16 May 1988.
M’Timkulu, Donald Guy Sydney. Telephone interview, 29 March 1994.
Patterson, Louise Thompson. Oakland, Calif., 11 November 1988.
Robeson, Paul, Jr. Telephone interviews.
Schappes, Morris Urman. Telephone interview, 5 May 1994.
Sisulu, Walter M. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2000.
Tabata, I. B. University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 5 March 1977.
Tsotsi, Wycliffe Mlungisi. Maseru, Lesotho. 19 October 1987; 9, 17, and 24 November 1987; and 21 January 1988, 3.30–5.15 p. (last interview taped).
Part 9: Other Published Materials Bearing on Max Yergan’s Life
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