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ineffectiveness, 155
Student Christian Movement (SCM), 55, 94, 128, 130
and Black students in the U.S. as seen by Juliette Derricotte, 128–30
Student Volunteer Movement (SVM), 45, 78
Student World, 63
Swann, Dorothy Kelson Funn. See Funn, Dorothy Kelso
Sweatt, Heman Marion, principal in Sweatt vs. Painter, law school segregation case, 236
Swing, William L., U.S. vice consul on Yergan’s tour (1964), 264–65
Tabata, Isaac B., on Yergan’s break with theology, 166
Talented Tenth, 14, 40–44, 74, 220
Tatlow, Tissington, 36
Teachers Christian Association, 59
Thamae, Edgar J., 165
writes Yergan from Basutoland, 73, 117
Thema, R. V. Selope, 173
Thibedi, T. W., 102
Thompson, Louise, 196
International Workers Order (IWO), 199–200
recalls Yergan, 199–200
Thompson Patterson, Louise. See Thompson, Louise
Tiger Kloof, educational institution, 60
Tobias, Channing Heggie, 30, 78, 135, 184, 197
presides over ICAA event for South Africa, 184, 196
Todd, Garfield, Southern Rhodesian prime minister, meets with Yergan (1957), 252
Transkei Bantustan (“Homeland”), Yergan visits (1964), 263–64
Tribal affiliations, shifting significance of, 48
Trotter, William Monroe, 14
Tshombe, Moise, premier, secessionist Katanga Province, 257, 257, 261
Tsotsi, Wycliffe Mlungisi
recalls Yergan’s behind-the-scenes role against Herzog bills, 153
recalls Yergan’s style and influence, 134
Turner, Henry McNeal, 11
Tuskegee Institute, 15
Tynes, George. See African-American communist émigrés to USSR, 161
Umsebenzi (The Worker), 132
Umteteli Wa Bantu (“The Mouthpiece of the African People”), 173
Up from Slavery (Washington), 23, 61
Vambe, Lawrence, meets Yergan, 252–54
Vernon, Rev. William Tecumseh, AME bishop in South Africa,
welcomes Yergan family to South Africa, 50
writes about Yergan’s arrival, 57
Visser ’T. Hooft, W. A., WSCF official, Yergan and, 119
Wallace-Johnson, I. T. A., Yergan meets in London, 179
Washington, Booker T., 2, 8–9, 12, 15
eulogized in India, 23
speaks to Atlanta Exposition, 8–9
Washingtonian accommodationism, 5, 45
Webster, Major C. R., 30
Welensky, Sir Roy, prime minister of Federation of Rhodesias and Nyasaland, meets Yergan (1957), 252
Welles, Sumner, Under Secretary of State to Roosevelt, 188, 206
Wells, Carveth, 208
Wells, Ida B., 14
White, Walter F., NAACP leader, 218
letters about Yergan, 245
letter to the editor, New York Journal American about Yergan, 246–47
Wiley College, 129
Wilkerson, Doxie Alphonso, 223, 232
fired as editor of People’s Voice, 228
Wilkins, Roy, succeeds Walter F. White at NAACP, 256
Williams, Aubrey Willis, National Youth Administration, 204–5
Williams, G, Mennen “Soapy” Williams, assistant secretary at U.S. State Department Bureau of African Affairs, 265–66
Wilson, Frank Theodore, Lincoln University Dean of Men, 187–88, 191
Williams, Richard. See African-American communist émigrés who moved to Soviet Union
Wiseman, Susan Delores (Susie). See Wise-man, Yergan, Susie
Wiseman Yergan, Susie
addresses students at Bennett College for Women (Greenville, N.C.), 96
arrives with Max in South Africa, 50
death of, 269
marriage to Max, 41
questions change in Yergan’s attitude toward religion, 141–42
travels home due to mother’s illness, 92
Wishhard, Luther Deloraine, WSCF leader, 54
Women’s Foreign Mission Society Convention (1927), 68
Woodson, Carter G., lends support to Yergan’s resignation from South African YMCA, 164–65
Woolf, Leonard Sidney, 87
International Committee on African Affairs (ICAA), 183
World Student Christian Federation (WSCF), 45, 55, 78, 91, 130–31
Juliette Derricotte and, 130–31
Meeting of the General Committee, Mysore (1928), 75, 86–89
Student World (organization’s publication), 63
Wright, Richard, and Yergan, 205, 240, 249
Wrong, Margaret, 177
Xuma, Alfred Bitini, MD, 183–84, 195–97, 240
on African-Americans in South Africa, 149
All African Convention, 172–74
assisted by YMCA’s George Arthur, 73
friendship with Yergan, 73–5, 146–50, 176
Hertzog Bills and, 148–9
marriage to Amanda Mason, 146
speaks on South Africa for ICAA (1937), 184
at CAA rally (1946), 226
Yapp, Sir Arthur Keysall, British YMCA Secretary, 33, 34, 36
Yeargan, Frederick (grandfather of Max), 2, 5, 7, 11, 12
Yeargan, Lizzie (mother of Max), 5, 7
Yergan, Frederick (son of Max), 50, 51
appendicitis symptoms, 92
interviewed in The Lincolnian, 191
Yergan, Max
African “personality,” prescribes acceptance of, 88–89
J. E. K. Aggrey and, 42–44
Mary McLeod Bethune and, 207–8, 213–14, 225–26
on capitalism, 140–41, 169–70
cites “communist appeal,” 133
death of, 269
Defiance Campaign (South Africa, 1952), 243
double life of, 131–34
Federal surveillance of, 205–6
on Fort Hare Bantu-European Conference (1930), 95–96
Harlem riot (August 1943), 211–12
Langston Hughes and, 209
identification with Africa and Africans, 74–76
D. D. T. Jabavu and, 41, 59, 73, 75, 79–80, 86, 100, 172–73, 183–84, 196–97
on the Jan Smuts Oxford radio addresses (1929), 97–99
land issue in South Africa, 88
linkage of African American and South
African Black oppression, 198
military surveillance of, 209
offers analysis of strengths and weaknesses of missionary practice, 69–72
Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and, 202, 209, 214, 249
praises Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, 217
social service worker institute scheme, 95–6, 121–3
radicalization, 81–5
resignation from YMCA, 1936, 154–7
Eleanor Roosevelt and, 213
Roosevelt administration and, 204–7, 209–10, 215
on socialism, 5, 140–42
South Africa election of 1929, 92–94
stresses need for Africans to organize along industrial lines, 171
visits Federation of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland (1957), 252–55
visits South Africa and Transkei for South Africa Foundation (1964), 262–65
Richard Wright and, 205, 249
writes Ralph Bunche regarding Soviet trip, 159
Dr. A. B. Xuma and, 73–74, 146–50, 172–77, 183–84, 196–97, 240
Yergan, Susie Wiseman. See Wiseman Yergan, Susie
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 1–4, 13, 15, 16, 18–24, 33–34, 39, 45, 96, 130, 167, 169, 241, 271
Atlanta conference (1914), 15
Black, 1–4, 13, 15, 20, 32–33, 40, 130, 271
Chesapeake Summer School, 17
Colored Work Department, 14, 17, 20, 32–33, 130, 271
in India, 1, 2, 18–24, 25, 31, 75, 86–89
ineffectiveness of in South Africa, 155
International Convention (Cleveland, 1916), 16
in South Africa, 53–77, 78–166, 174–75, 271
War Work Council, 32
War Work in the Far East, 16 See also African Redemption
Young Women’s Christian Association, 96, 130
Juliette Derricotte and, 130
Zaphiro, Lij Tasfaye, special envoy of Ethiopian legation, London, 168
Zhdanov, A. A., establishes Communist Information Bureau in Poland, 228
About the Author
David Henry Anthony III is Associate Professor of History and Provost of Oakes College at the University of California at Santa Cruz.