awards and prizes
Alexander Pushkin Prize 5
Amy Spingarn Contest in Literature and
Art 248, 255, 317, 451, 491–492
Crisisprizes in literature and art
102–103
Guggenheim Fellowship 207
Harmon Foundation Awards 221
Holstein Poetry Prize 241–242
Julius Rosenwald Fellowship 295
Opportunityliterary contests 406
Pulitzer Prize 435
Rhodes Scholarships 449
Spingarn Medal 493–494
Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry
Contest 22
Yale University Gold Medal 542–543
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“Backslider, The” (Fisher) 20–21
“Back to Africa” Movement 21, 178
Bagnall, Robert W. 21,36, 222
“Unquenchable Fire, The” 537
Baker, George (Father Divine) 21 , 431
Baker, Josephine 21
Baker, Ray Stannard 21–22
Baldwin, James 107
Baldwin, William 22
Ballad of the Brown Girl, The(Cullen, C.)
22–24, 107
Balo (Toomer) 252, 525
Banana Bottom(McKay) 25–26, 342
Banjo: A Story Without a Plot(McKay)
26–27, 342
Barber, Jesse Max 27
Barnard College 27, 51
Barnes, Albert Coombs 27–28, 530
Barnett, Claude Albert 14, 28
Barthé, Richmond 28,138, 201
award won by 295
Basshe, Em Jo 29
Earth 132
Batouala(Maran) 29,331, 379
Battle, John Tucker
Bottom of the Cup 60
Beale Street: Where the Blues Began(Lee)
29,59, 309
Bearden, Romare Howard 29,88, 485
Beasley, Delilah Leontium 29
Beavers, Louise 29–30
Becton, George Wilson 30
“Belated Romance” (Harmon) 30, 221
Benchley, Robert C. 30, 70
Bennett, Gwendolyn 30–31,88, 173, 397,
433, 485
comments of 437
and the Crigwa Players 101
“Ebony Flute, The” 135
“Wedding Day” 556–557
Berlack, Thelma 31–32
Bethune, Mary McLeod 32,349–350, 473
award won by 493–494
as founder of Bethune-Cookman
College 32
as founder of the National Council of
Negro Women 364
Bethune-Cookman College 32, 473
Bibb, Joseph Dandridge 32,59, 79, 571
“Bidin’ Place” (Miller) 32–33
Big Sea, The: An Autobiography33–34, 257
Billy Pierce Studio 34–35
Bird, Bessie Calhoun 35,45, 63, 421–422
Airs from the Wood-Winds 3
“Bird in the Bush, The” (Lewis, T.) 35
Birth Control Review205, 514
Birth of a Nation 35
protest against 528
Birth of a Race(Scott) 35
Birthright(Stribling) 35, 499
Bishop Payne Divinity School 36
“Black” (Bright) 36
Black and White36,346, 516, 559
Black and White Tangled Threads(Wright, Z.)
36, 569
Black Boy(Tully and Dazey) 37
Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth
(Wright, R.) 222
Black Christ and Other Poems, The(Cullen,
C.) 37–38, 107
Black Damp(Matheus) 38
“Black Dress, The” (West) 38–39
Blacker the Berry, The(Thurman) 39,
39–41, 520
“Black Fronts” (Bonner) 41
Black Horseman, The(Richardson) 41–42
Black King, The 42
Black Magic(Duncan) 42
Black Man 179
Black Manhattan(Johnson, J.W) 42–43,
140
Black Man’s Verse(Davis, Frank Marshall)
43, 114
Black No More: Being an Account of the
Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science
in the Land(Schuyler) 44–45,328, 472
Black Opals vii
Black Opals45–46,63, 421
literary works in 35, 100, 303
Black Sadie(Campbell, T. Bowyer) 46, 72
Black Thunder(Bontemps) 46–48,56, 57
Black Velvet(Robertson) 48
“Blades of Steel” (Fisher) 48
“Blind Alley” (Hazzard) 48–49
Blood on the Forge(Attaway) 15, 49
“Blue Aloes” (Graham) 49–50
Blue Blood(Johnson, G. D.) 50–51,249,
285, 299
“Blueprint for Negro Writing” (Wright, R.)
78
Blues: An Anthology 51
Boas, Franz 27, 51,262, 357
“Bodies in the Moonlight” (Hughes) 51, 81
“Boll Weevil Starts North, The: A Story”
51–52, 572Boni, Albert 52, 316
Boni, Charles 52
Boni & Liveright Publishers 52, 52, 316
Bonner, Marita Odette 52–54, 59
award won by 102
“Black Fronts” 41
“Drab Rambles” 121–122
Exit, an Illusion 146
“Hongry Fire” 245
“Makin’s, The” 329
“Nothing New” 394
“On Being Young—a Woman—and
Colored” 402–403
“One Boy’s Story” 403
“Patch Quilt” 416
“Possible Triad on Black Notes, A”
429–430
Pot Maker, The431–432
“Prison Bound, The” 434
pseudonym used by 9
Purple Flower, The 435
and Radcliffe College 439
“Sealed Pod, A” 475–476
“Tin Can” 522
“Young Blood Hungers, The” 572
Bontemps, Arnaud (Arna) Wendell vi, vii,
54–59,55,78, 218, 282
awards won by 5, 102, 295
Black Thunder46–48
collaboration with Work, John Wesley,
III 567
degree from the University of Chicago
537
Drums at Dusk123–124
as educator 213, 571
God Sends Sunday 184
and Hughes, Langston 254, 255
and Johnson, Georgia Douglas, as inspi-
ration 289
Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti 427
relationships maintained by 28, 126,
152, 518
Sad-Faced Boy462–463
and staging of Conjure-Man Dies, The
(Fisher) 92
“Summer Tragedy, A” 503
You Can’t Pet a Possum (Bontemps and
Hughes) 572
Book of American Negro Poetry, The
(Johnson, J. W.) 59,111, 153, 229, 290,
294, 490, 576
Book of American Negro Spirituals 59
Book-of-the-Month Club 29, 59,217, 309
Boot-Black Lover(Richardson) 451
Born to Be(Gordon, T.) 59, 191
Boston, Massachusetts vii, 59–60
Boston Quill Club. SeeSaturday Evening
Quill Club
Boston Transcript, The 60
Boston University 60,190, 338
Bottomland(Williams and Taylor) 60
Bottom of the Cup(Battle and Perlman) 60596 Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance