Harlem Nocturne (30 page)

Bond, Horace Mann,
58

Bond, Julian,
58

Boots, Smith,
111
,
112

Borde, Percival,
39
,
54
,
190

Bridges, Aaron,
154

Broadway,
63
,
85
,
102
,
137

Brooks, Gwendolyn,
12
,
63–64
,
114
,
127

Browder, Earl,
60

Brown, Claude,
173

Brown, Lloyd,
114

Brown, Sterling,
45
,
114

Brown v. Board of Education
,
7

Buck, Pearl S.,
128

Bunche, Ralph,
45

Burley, Virginia,
143

Burnham, Louis and Dorothy,
58

Bush, George H. W.,
190

Byas, Don,
166

Cacchione, Peter V.,
137

Café Society,
67
,
136
,
139

    
audience of,
46

    
Communist Party and,
45

    
demise of,
74

    
founding of,
43

    
Popular Front and,
8
,
45

    
Primus, Pearl and,
2
,
44–48
,
50–53
,
60
,
152
,
153

    
Williams, Mary Lou and,
2
,
45
,
139
,
140
,
152–154
,
160

Café Society Downtown,
46

Café Society Uptown,
47
,
153
,
157
,
163

Cage, John,
51

Capra, Frank,
89

Caribbean,
10
,
28
,
29
,
31
,
32
,
42
,
43
,
73

Caribbean Carnival
,
67

Carnegie Hall,
14
,
53
,
162
,
167

Carpenter, Thelma,
154

Carroll, Vinette,
66

Catlett, Elizabeth,
114

Catlett, Sidney,
52fig

Chaplin, Charlie,
46

Chesnutt, Charles,
27

Chicago Defender
,
24
,
140

Childress, Alice,
102

Civil rights movement,
4
,
7
,
61
,
117
,
130
,
197

Class,
27
,
95
,
102

“Close Ranks” (Du Bois),
20

Coca, Imogene,
45
,
152
,
168

Coker, Norman,
39

Cold War,
4
,
15
,
114
,
116
,
130
,
189

Collins, James,
119

Columbia University,
71–72
,
104

Common Ground
,
106

Communist Party

    
Café Society and,
45

    
Davis, Benjamin J., Jr. and,
135
,
138

    
Double V Campaign and,
20

    
People's Voice
newspaper and,
92–94

    
Petry, Ann and,
10–11
,
90
,
129–130

    
Popular Front and,
7–8

    
Primus, Pearl and,
10
,
60
,
62
,
74
,
75

    
racism and,
62

    
Robeson, Paul and,
23
,
37

    
SNYC and,
59

    
Williams, Mary Lou and,
9
,
10
,
20
,
139–140

Cooke, Marvel,
93
,
94
,
99
,
129–130

Cooper, Esther,
110

Cortor, Eldzier,
55

The Crisis
,
20
,
81
,
106
,
127

Cullen, Countee,
136

Culture

    
African Americans and,
3

    
American,
3

    
dance and,
72

    
in Harlem, NY,
32

    
in New York City, NY,
2

    
Popular Front and,
5
,
8

Cuney, Waring,
23

Dafora, Asadata,
29
,
39
,
53

Daily Compass
,
94

Daily Worker
,
30
,
54
,
60
,
61
,
62
,
93
,
98
,
135

Dameron, Tadd,
149
,
150fig

Dance

    
African,
24
,
25
,
29
,
31
,
42
,
43
,
44
,
72

    
ballet,
25
,
38
,
44
,
47

    
black American,
42

    
black concert,
76

    
Caribbean,
29
,
31
,
32
,
42
,
43
,
55

    
contemporary black vernacular,
25

    
cultural,
38

    
culture and,
72

    
education and,
31
,
42

    
folk,
29

    
jazz,
47
,
53

    
Lindy Hop,
35
,
37
,
46

    
modern,
24–25
,
29–31
,
38
,
39
,
44
,
47
,
70

    
politics and,
23–25
,
27
,
32
,
38
,
53

    
segregation and,
25
,
27

    
social,
29
,
35

    
social justice and,
30

    
social protest and,
29–31
,
53

    
tap,
38
,
47

    
See also
Primus, Pearl

Daniels, Billy,
136

Davis, Angela,
59

Davis, Benjamin,
120

Davis, Benjamin J., Jr.,
133–139

Davis, Ben, Jr.,
99

Davis, Miles,
12
,
160
,
164

Davis, Ossie,
102

Davis, Sallye Bell,
59

Delmer, Judith,
39

Democracy,
3
,
4
,
6
,
9
,
10
,
20
,
29
,
54
,
59
,
76
,
89
,
98
,
109

Democratic Party, Democrats,
90

Dickens, Charles,
84
,
114

Dinkins, David,
112–113

Discrimination,
6
,
7
,
19
,
69

Dodson, Owen,
51

Dorham, Kenny,
12

Double V Campaign,
5–7
,
19
,
20
,
30
,
53
,
59
,
61
,
92
,
94

Douglas, Aaron,
103

Dreiser, Theodore,
84
,
114

Drug use,
130
,
133
,
158–159
,
164
,
169

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
20
,
27
,
55
,
57
,
75
,
130
,
148

Duke University,
148

Dunbar, Paul Laurence,
64

Dunham, Katherine,
12
,
13
,
23
,
30
,
31
,
39
,
40
,
42–44
,
48
,
54
,
63
,
68
,
70
,
72
,
153
,
168
,
175

Ebony,
49
,
113

Eckstine, Billy,
12
,
159–162

Education,
7
,
8
,
31
,
42
,
91
,
98
,
114

Ellington, Duke,
147
,
148
,
152
,
162
,
173

Ellison, Ralph,
13
,
62
,
106
,
117
,
120
,
122–123
,
127
,
157
,
173

Embree, Edward,
72

Emma Ransom House,
85

Emperor Jones
,
67

Employment,
7
,
22
,
35–36
,
91

Equality,
4
,
6
,
7
,
9
,
19
,
76
,
94
,
98

Executive Order 8802,
6
,
36

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC),
20
,
21

Fascism,
6
,
7
,
19
,
20
,
22
,
30
,
32
,
61
,
62
,
135

Fast, Howard,
37

Fauset, Jessie,
11
,
95

FBI.
See
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
3
,
17
,
45
,
58
,
59–62
,
68
,
73–76
,
129
,
130

Feminist movement,
15
,
197

FEPC.
See
Fair Employment Practices Commission

Fiction.
See
Literature

Fisk University,
72

Fitzgerald, Ella,
12
,
137
,
139
,
173

Five Dancers
,
39–40
,
44

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley,
137

Flynn, Errol,
46

Fort, Syvvilla,
70

Foulkes, Julia L.,
70

Founding Fathers,
108
,
111

Franklin, Benjamin,
108
,
115

Frazier, E. Franklin,
45

Freedom,
9
,
24
,
31
,
98
,
136

Freud, Sigmund,
116

Gangs,
97
,
133
,
169
,
173–174

Garland, Phyl,
49

Garner, Erroll,
146

Garvey, Marcus,
32

Gary, Johnnie,
154

Gender,
95
,
115