INDEX
595A
Abbott, Robert Sengstacke 1,1,2, 79
Abbott’s Monthly1, 2, 568
Abyssinian Baptist Church 2,213, 373,
387, 432
Advancing South: Stories of Progress and
Reaction, The(Mims) 2, 348
Africa 2,482. See also“Back to Africa”
Movement
African Black Brotherhood 3,63, 120
African Grove Theatre 200
African Orthodox Church 3, 179
Afro-American 337
Aftermath(Burrill) 3,69, 163, 327
Ainsfield Award for Research in Race
Relations 287
Airs from the Wood-Winds(Bird) 3
Aldridge, Ira Frederick 3–5, 200
Aldridge Players 4, 5
Alexander, Lewis 5,250, 365
Alexander, Raymond Pace 5,59, 366
Alexander Pushkin Poetry Prize 5
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 5–6,17, 168, 298, 548
Alhambra Theatre 6
Allen, Cleveland 6–7,386, 388
All God’s Chillun Got Wings(O’Neill) 7,
404, 565
Along This Way(Johnson, J. W.) 7, 290
Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. 7,250, 307
“A Man I Know” (Moryck) 352
American Mercury8,191, 298, 345
American Negro Academy 8, 125
members of the 206, 318, 420, 471, 567
American Negro Poetry(Bontemps) 226
Amsterdam News8,106, 119
editors of the 32, 63, 222
owned by Davis, Sadie Warren 115
on the wedding of Fauset, Jessie
Redmon 154
work on the 242, 297, 420, 431
Amy Spingarn Contest in Literature and
Art 248, 255, 317, 451, 491–492. See also
Crisisprizes in literature and art; Spingarn
Medal
Anderson, Garland 8–9, 292
Appearances12–13
Uncommon Sense: The Law of Life in
Action 534
Anderson, Marian 9,260, 313, 493–494
Anderson, Sherwood 9
Anderson, Mrs. Sherwood 144
Andrew, Joseph Maree 9. See alsoBonner,
Marita Odette
Andrews, Regina M. Anderson 9–10,78,
330, 459, 564
Climbing Jacob’s Ladder 83
pseudonym used by 527
and roommates 281, 361, 528
and theater groups 101, 216, 299,
373–374
and work at the New York Public
Library 215–216, 307
Antar of Araby(Hare) 11,212, 422
anthologies and compilations
Anthology of American Negro Literature
11
Anthology of Magazine Verse
(Braithwaite) 11
Anthology of Verse by American Negroes,
An(White and Jackson) 11
Blues: An Anthology 51
Book of American Negro Poetry, The
(Johnson, J. W.) 59
Book of American Negro Spirituals
(Johnson, J. R., ed.) 59
Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by
Negro Poets(Cullen, C.) 75–76
Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer 130
Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea
(Johnson, C. S.) 134–135
Homespun Heroines(Brown, H. Q.)
242–243
Negro History in Thirteen Plays(Miller
and Richardson) 374
Negro Musicians and Their Music(Hare)
377
New Negro, The: An Interpretation
(Locke) 381–383Our Women: Past, Present and Future
(Brown, H. Q.) 407
Plays and Pageants from the Life of the
Negro(Richardson) 422–423
Plays of Negro Life: A Sourcebook of
Native American Drama(Locke and
Gregory) 423
Shades and Shadows(Edmonds) 478
Six Plays for the Negro Theatre
(Edmonds) 481
Anthology of American Negro Literature11,
71
Anthology of Magazine Verse(Braithwaite)
11,61, 77, 109
Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, An
(White and Jackson) 11,239, 273,
561–562
literary works in 155, 225, 230, 278
“Antropoi” (Matheus) 12
Apollo Theater 12,213, 276, 387
Appearances(Anderson, G.) 8, 12–13
April Grasses(Cuthbert) 13–14, 110
Arlen, Harold 14
Associated Negro Press 14,28, 115
Association for the Study of Negro Life and
History 14,78, 294, 567
Atlanta, Georgia 14–15
Atlanta University 15,17, 245
Atlantic Monthly, The15,164, 336
literary works in 48, 82, 223, 227–228,
360, 454
Attaway, William 15
Blood on the Forge 49
At the Coffee House(Schuyler) 15–16
“Attic Romance” (Harmon) 16, 221
Aubrey, John 16
“Virginia Idyll” 545
Aunt Sara’s Wooden God(Gilbert) 16–17,
182
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
(Johnson, J. W.) 7, 17–18,290, 479
inspiration for the 561
Autumn Love Cycle, An(Johnson, G. D.)
18–19, 284Boldfacepage numbers indicate major treatment of a topic. Page numbers in italicindicate photographs.