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Gillespie, Dizzy,
111
,
119
,
149
,
150
,
150fig
,
160
,
166
,
168
,
173
,
193

Gold, Ben,
136

Goodman, Benny,
147
,
166
,
181–182

Gordon, Dexter,
12

Gottlieb, William P.,
149

Graham, Martha,
29
,
38
,
69

Great Depression,
5
,
7
,
36
,
114
,
128

Greatest Generation,
4

Great Migration,
28
,
55
,
119
,
128

Greenwich Village, NY,
43

Hackett, Bobby,
52fig

Haig, Al,
166

Hairston, Jacqueline,
68

Hall, Edmund,
165

Hammerstein, Oscar, II,
22

Hammond, John,
45
,
174

Hansberry, Lorraine,
131

“Hard Time Blues,”
23
,
50
,
55
,
63
,
65
,
66
,
67
,
77

Harlem, NY,
9

    
art in,
32

    
artists in,
1
,
11–12

    
Black Americans in,
28

    
black urbanites in,
79

    
Caribbean immigrants in,
33

    
changes in,
189–190

    
culture in,
32

    
drug use and,
130
,
133
,
158–159
,
169

    
in forties,
11

    
gang violence in,
133
,
169
,
173
–
174

    
Harlem Renaissance and,
11–12

    
housing in,
81

    
“latchkey” children in,
97

    
nightlife of,
86
,
127
,
133
,
169–170

    
Petry, Ann and,
81
,
89
,
90–91
,
98
,
110
,
170
,
189

    
Petry, Ann in,
2
,
9
,
79

    
politics in,
32

    
Primus, Pearl and,
95

    
Primus, Pearl in,
2

    
racism and,
79

    
segregation and,
79

    
The Street
(Petry) and,
170

    
urban renewal and,
130–131

Williams, Mary Lou and,
9
,
168–175
,
189

Harlem Arts Center,
96

Harlem Community Art Center,
104

Harlem Housewives League,
99

Harlem Nocturne
(Neel),
188fig
,
189

Harlem Quarterly
,
106

Harlem Renaissance,
11–12
,
21
,
95

Harlem Riots (1943),
17
,
90
,
118–127

Harlem Riverside Defense Council,
98
,
110

Harlem Youth Center,
60

Harrington, Ollie,
95

Hadassah,
68

Hawkins, Coleman,
135
,
136

Helman, Lillian,
74

Herndon, Angelo,
135

Herskovitz, Melville,
70

Hill, Abraham,
101–102

Hindemith, Paul,
162–163

Hines, Earl “Fatha,”
12

Hitler, Adolf,
19
,
94
,
116

Holder, Geoffrey,
39

Holiday, Billie,
45
,
46
,
47
,
48
,
118
,
135
,
136
,
138
,
146
,
157
,
158
,
163

Holiday
magazine,
131

Hollywood,
43
,
89
,
104
,
129

Holm, Hanya,
69

Homzy, Andrew,
164–165

Hoover, J. Edgar,
45
,
61
,
74
,
92
,
130
,
176

Horne, Lena,
12
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
54
,
74
,
112
,
118
,
136
,
154
,
173

Houghton Mifflin,
81
,
107
,
113

House of Representatives, U. S.,
21

House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC),
74
,
75
,
103
,
129

Housing,
7
,
22
,
81
,
91
,
94
,
109
,
130

Housing Act of 1949,
130
,
189

Houton Mifflin Literary Fellowship,
81

Howard, Jack,
144

HUAC.
See
House Un-American Activities Committee

Hughes, Langston,
24
,
37
,
45
,
51
,
53
,
55
,
87
,
114
,
120–121
,
126
,
136
,
149
,
173

Humphrey, Doris,
38

Hunter College,
34
,
35
,
36
,
47
,
50

Hurston, Zora Neale,
11
,
55
,
70
,
72
,
117
,
192

In Darkness and Confusion
(Petry),
103

“In Darkness and Confusion” (Petry),
118
,
122–127

in New York City, NY,
31

International Theatre,
67

Invisible Man
(Ellison),
62
,
120
,
122–123

Ivy, James,
127

Jackson, Ada B.,
99

Jackson, Esther Cooper,
58–59

Jackson, James,
58
,
59

Jackson, “Lassido,”
31–32

Jackson, Red,
174

Jamaica,
40

Jamal, Ahmad,
146

James, Anna Louise,
82
,
83

Jim Crow,
6
,
17
,
19
,
20
,
23
,
27–28
,
29
,
30
,
55
,
88
,
89
,
98
,
112
,
120
,
175
,
177

“Jim Crow Train,”
23
,
27–28
,
65
,
77

John Cage Trust,
51

Johnson, James P.,
144

Johnson, Lutie,
88
,
96–97

Johnson, William H.,
103

Johnston, Toosie,
76–77

Jones, Bill T.,
76

Jones, Hank,
149
,
150fig

Jones, Max,
161–162

Josephson, Barney,
44
,
45
,
46
,
49
,
50
,
52
,
73–76
,
139
,
152
,
153
,
157
,
160
,
168
,
174
,
176
,
194

Journey of Immersion,
55

Judeo-Christianity,
11

Julius Rosenwald Foundation,
16
,
72

Kent, Rockwell,
62–63

Kern, Jerome,
22

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
177

Kirk, Andy,
147

Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch,
39

Kykunkor
,
29

LaGuardia, Fiorello,
95–96
,
100
,
120

Lane, Anna Houston.
See
Petry, Ann

Lane, Bertha James,
82

Lane, Peter Clark,
82

Larsen, Nella,
11
,
95

Laundry Workers Joint Board,
97

Lawrence, Jacob,
37
,
104

League for Political Education,
166

Lee, Canada,
74

Left,
8–9
,
10
,
46
,
93–94
,
115

Leftists,
30
,
99
,
136

Lenin, V. I.,
8

Levien, Julia,
39

Levy, Herbert Mont,
75

Lewis, Norman,
103

Lewis, Sinclair,
114–115

Liberals,
8
,
30
,
99

Liberty,
9

Life
magazine,
53
,
174

“Like a Winding Sheet” (Petry),
114

Lincoln, Abbey,
50
,
131

Lincoln, Abraham,
90

Literature,
77

    
education and,
114

    
Left and,
115

    
movement in,
16

    
society, reform of and,
114

    
sociological novel and,
115–118

    
See also
Petry, Ann

Little, Malcolm.
See
Malcolm X

Lloyd, Margaret,
42

Louis, Joe,
113
,
176

Lunceford, Jimmie,
136

Lynching,
63
,
64
,
91
,
145

Mabry, Iris,
39

Mainstream press,
13
,
106
,
113

Makeba, Miriam,
50

Malcolm X,
35
,
111
,
112
,
170

Manchild in the Promised Land
(Brown),
173

Manhattan, NY,
33
,
63

Mannings, Muriel,
48

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963),
4

March on Washington movement (1941),
6–7

Martin, David Stone,
144
,
155–156

Martin, John,
13
,
24–25
,
39
,
46
,
52
,
53

Martinique,
40

Marx, Karl,
10

Marxism,
10–11
,
116

Mary Lou Williams: Circle Recordings
,
183

Mary Lou Williams's Piano Workshop
(radio program),
13–14
,
157

Mayfield, Roland,
146

Mays, Benjamin,
177

McBurnie, Beryl,
38–39

McCarthy, Joseph,
74
,
93
,
130

McCarthyism,
16
,
37
,
61
,
74
,
130
,
189

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