by Imani Perry
Woodstock, 192
Working-class blacks: and black formalism, 8, 52; seamstresses as, 9; and leftists, 52, 54, 56; whites on lifeworlds of, 64–65; and class cleavages in black life, 65, 211; and Watts, 161
Working-class whites: racism of, 34, 193; access to high school, 73
Work songs, 151, 153
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 52, 66, 68
World War I, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 114
World War II: and black political life, 109, 115–16; Martin Luther King Jr.’s references to, 111; black Americans’ support for, 111, 115, 117, 121; and patriotism in support for war effort, 114, 118, 119–20, 121; and segregation, 115, 116, 122; and Double V campaign, 115, 118, 119, 128; and fascism, 116, 121, 122, 130, 138–39; and American race relations, 117, 121–22; and postwar settlement, 122
Wright, Evelyn Brown, 98
Wright, Richard, 66, 97
Yale University, 208
Yerby, Frank, 66
Young, Andrew, 174, 206, 208
Young, Charles, 41
Young, Whitney, Jr., 80, 133, 168, 189
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), 233n21
Zambia, 208
Zimbabwe, 208
