Imitation of Life 267
as judge of Opportunityliterary contest
70, 263
Hurston, Zora Neale vi, viii, ix, 218,
261–265,262, 273
awards won by 207, 295
and Baker, Ray Stannard 21
and Barnard College 27
and Boas, Franz 51
and collaboration on Mule Bone 516
Color Struck: A Play in Four Scenes
87–88
controversy about Mule Bone(Hughes
and Hurston) 274
as correspondent 272, 442, 558
“Drenched in Light” 122–123
Dust Tracks on a Road130–131
and Eatonville, Florida 132–134
“Eatonville Anthology, The” 133
as editor 494
as faculty member 393
and Fire!!160, 520
“Fire and the Cloud, The” 161
Florida Negro, The 169
“Gilded Six Bits, The” 183
and Graven Images(Sullivan) 195
Great Day, The196–197
on Haiti 209
“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” 252
and Hurst, Fannie 261, 267
influences on 80
“John Redding Goes to Sea” 277–278
and Johnson, Georgia Douglas 285
Jonah’s Gourd Vine292–293
and Mason, Charlotte Louise Osgood
334
Moses, Man of the Mountain352–353
Mule Bone 355
Mules and Men 357
“Muttsy” 359–360
opinions of 166, 291, 533
opinions on Locke, Alain 320
and pan-Africanism 412
performances of works by 297
relationship maintained with Hughes,
Langston 255
relationships with 126–127, 281
“Spunk” 496
“Sweat” 504–505
terms coined by 378, 390
Their Eyes Were Watching God509–512
at Tuskegee Institute 151
I
I Am the American Negro(Davis, F.) 114,
115, 266
Idle Head(Richardson) 266–267
“If We Must Die” (McKay) 163, 339
“If Wishes Were Horses” (Gordon, E.) 190,
267
Imitation of Life(film) 30
Imitation of Life(Hurst) 261, 267
In Abraham’s Bosom(Green) 199,
267–269,323, 565
Infants of the Spring(Thurman) 269–270,
328, 520
“Inimitable Five, The” (vocal group) 191
International Workers Order (IWO) 385,
517
Interne, The(Thurman) 175, 270–271,
328, 520
Inter-State Tattler70, 106, 119, 271
editors of 294
reporters for 421
In the Beginning: A Concert of Negro Secular
Music. See Great Day, The(Hurston)
Invisible Man(Ellison) 139
“Is It Not Enough” (Rowland) 315
Isaacs, Edith Juliet (Rich) 271
J
Jackman, Harold 269, 272–273, 285
and controversy over “Sanctuary”
(Larsen) 465
opinions of 424–425
Jackson, James A. 273
Jackson, Walter Clinton 11, 273
Jaffa, Kathleen de 142
James Weldon Johnson Memorial
Committee 302
J. B. Lippincott and Company 264,
273–274
Jeffrey, Maurine L. 274
Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham 254, 274–275,
296, 537
and Jelliffe, Russell 275
Jelliffe, Russell 254, 275,296, 537
and Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham 274
Jephthah’s Daughter 380
Jeremiah, the Magnificent(Thurman and
Rapp) 275–276,442, 520
Jessye, Eva Alberta 276–277, 429
Jim Crow vii, 277, 499
Job Hunters(Edward) 136
“John Redding Goes to Sea” (Hurston) 263,
277–278
Johnson, Charles Bertram viii, 278
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon 10, 279,
279–282
award won by 221
and Benchley, Robert C. 30
and Bynner, Witter 70
and the Civic Club dinner for Fauset,
Jessie Redmon 82, 330, 513
and Cullen, Countee Porter 105
Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea
134–135
as editor 407, 538
and the First World War 163
and Fisk University 167
and Matheus, John Frederick 337
work with 294, 361
Johnson, Dorothy Vena 282
Johnson, Fenton 282–283
Johnson, Georgia Douglas vii, 52, 101,
283–286,397, 553
anthologies of works by 374
and Atlanta University 15
Autumn Love Cycle, An18–19
award won by 102
Blue Blood50–51
Bronze: A Book of Verse65–66
on the Challenge 78
and Clifford, Carrie Williams 83
Heart of a Woman and Other Poems, The
229–230
and Horne, Frank S. 249
members of her literary salon 338, 427,
449, 450
Plumes: Folk Tragedy424–425
pseudonym used by 527
relationships maintained with 247, 502
Sunday Morning in the South, A
503–504
works in literary journals 11
Johnson, Guy Benton 286–287
Negro and His Songs, The: 371
Johnson, Helene vi, 60, 287–289
and Hurston, Zora Neale 262–263
and West, Dorothy 558
Johnson, J. Rosamond 191
Johnson, James Weldon 289,289–291
Along This Way 7
and the archives of Yale University 571
Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
17–18
Black Manhattan42–43
Book of American Negro Poetry, The 59
Book of American Negro Spirituals 59
correspondence with authors 293, 511
God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons
in Verse 186
and the Ira Aldridge Memorial Chair 4
and the NAACP 363
Negro Americans: What Now!?
370–371
opinions of 391, 487
opinons on 61–62
on other authors 345
relationships maintained with 342, 369
Saint Peter Relates an Incident: Selected
Poems463–464
works in literary journals 11
Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt 291–292, 351
Johnson, S. Miller 292
“Golden Penknife, The” 188
Johnson, Sargent 221
Jolson, Al 292
Jonah’s Gourd Vine(Hurston) 16, 183, 264,
273, 292–293
Jones, Eugene Kinckle 293–294, 367
Jones, George B. 271, 294
Jones, Henry Joshua 294
By Sanction of Law 70
Heart of the World and Other Poems 230
Index 603