poems in 342, 490
publisher of 52
short stories in 496
New Negro Arts Movement 383, 386
New Negro Art Theatre 383
New Republic, The174, 329, 383–384, 402
Newsome, Mary Effie Lee 18, 384–385
award won by 102
Gladiola Gardens: Poems of Outdoors and
Indoors for Second Grade Readers 184
New Song, A(Hughes) 385–386
newspapers
Amsterdam News 8
Challenge 77
Chicago Defender 79
Chicago Whip 79
Dunbar News 130
Harlem Liberator 216
Inter-State Tattler 271
Negro Champion 373
Negro World379–380
New York Age 388
New York Times, The 388
New York World388–389
Pittsburgh Courier 422
New York(Morand) 386, 387
New York Age6, 350, 386, 552
founders of 171, 418
New York Amsterdam News. See Amsterdam
News
New York City vi, 386–387
as a setting 512
New York Public Library (NYPL) 387,
387–388
as library school 117
staff of the 304, 307
as a venue 299
New York Stage Society 211
New York Times, The 388
New York University 388
New York World388–389
Niagara movement 27, 389, 507
Nicholas, Reverend Elmer 411
Nickel and a Prayer, A(Hunter) 259,
389–390
Nigger: A Novel(Wood) 390, 566
Niggerati 390
Niggerati Manor 160, 269, 390
Nigger Heaven(Van Vechten) 342,
390–392, 418
protests about 542
No Alabaster Box(Reynolds) 392, 448
“Nocturne at Bethesda, A” (Bontemps) 56
No Hiding Place(Brown, S.) 392
“Nomah—a Story” (Matheus) 392–393
Noose, The(Mygatt) 327
“Noose, The” (Wynbush) 393, 569
“Northboun’” (Holloway) 241
North Carolina College for Negroes at
Durham 393–394
Northwestern University 394
“Nothing New” (Bonner) 394
Not Without Laughter(Hughes) 6, 255,
394–396
Nugent, Richard Bruce 396–398
and Barthé, Richmond 28
and Cuney, Waring 109
and Fire!!160, 263
and Harlem: A Forum of Negro Life 214
“Smoke, Lilies and Jade” 484
Nuggets of Gold(Figgs) 157, 398
Nurse, Malcolm Ivan Meredith. See
Padmore, George
NYPL. SeeNew York Public Library
O
Oberlin Conservatory of Music 399
O Canaan!(Turpin) 399–400
Odum, Howard Washington 287, 400
Negro and His Songs, The: 371
O. Henry Memorial Award 161, 190
O’Keeffe, Georgia Totto 400–401
and Stieglitz, Alfred 497
and Toomer, Nathan Eugene 524
“Old School of Negro ‘Critics’ Hard on Paul
Laurence Dunbar” (Henry) 233
Ole Miss(Campbell, T.) 73
Ollie Miss(Henderson) 232, 401
Omega Psi Phi 250
“On a Birthday” (Bennett) 31
“On Being a Domestic” (Walrond)
401–402, 550
“On Being Black” (Walrond) 402, 550
“On Being Young—a Woman—and
Colored” (Bonner) 402–403
award won by 492
“One Boy’s Story” (Bonner) 403
O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone 403–404
All God’s Chillun Got Wings 7
Emperor Jones, The
film 142
opera 142
play 141–142
publishers of works by 316
One Way to Heaven(Cullen, C.) 107,
404–405
On the Fields of France(Cotter, Jr.) 99, 405
Oppenheim, James 405–406,477, 493
Opportunityvi, viii, 234, 406–407
awards offered by 5, 241–242, 406–407
as continuation of the Urban League
Bulletin 538
“Ebony Flute, The” column in 135
editors of 76, 105, 279, 445
essays in 5
and Holstein, Casper 241
narratives in 99, 401–402
and the National Urban League 367
plays in 433, 531
poems in 205, 397
stories in 12, 38, 51, 72, 83, 103, 110,
122, 237, 277, 328, 329, 333,
392–393, 413, 421, 448, 475–476,
515, 522, 545, 563support by Van Vechten, Carl, of
542–543
vignettes in 41, 447, 544
work at 550
Opportunityliterary contest 56, 241
first-place winners of 109, 170, 175,
177, 336, 425–426, 501, 503, 505,
565
honorable mentions in 53, 288, 515,
572
and Hughes, Langston 255
and Hurston, Zora Neale 87–88, 263
judges of the first 30, 115, 149, 176,
201, 261, 470, 535, 539, 564, 566
second-place winners of 258, 352,
359–360, 453, 489, 496, 532, 559
third-place winners of 489, 497, 502,
545–546
Our Women: Past, Present and Future(Brown,
H. Q.) 67, 406–407
Outlet323, 407, 519
Ovington, Mary White 271, 362, 407–408
Owen, Chandler viii, 222, 408–409,440,
442, 472
founder of Messenger, The 346
Oxford University 409
P
Pace, Harry, and investigation of Garvey,
Marcus Mosiah 222
Pace Phonograph Company 410, 498
Padmore, George 216, 410–411
painter
Tanner, Henry Ossawa 508
Palms411– 412, 449
Pan-African Congresses 234, 322, 411, 412
pan-Africanism 126, 346, 412
Pankhurst, (Estelle) Sylvia 341, 567
opinions on Long Way from Home, A
(McKay) 412–413
Pan Pictures of Pioneers at Wilberforce
(Brown, H. Q.) 417
“Parasites, The” (Campbell, H.) 413
“Part of the Pack: Another View of Night
Life in Harlem” (Campbell, H.) 413
passing 166, 413–414
novels about 17, 512
stories about 238, 330, 331, 333
Passing(Larsen) 6, 36, 306, 414–416
“Patch Quilt” (Bonner) 416
Patterson, Louise Thompson. See
Thompson, Louise
Pa Williams’ Gal(Wilson) 416–417, 565
Pearson’s Magazine 222
Perlman, William J. 417
Bottom of the Cup 60
Peterkin, Julia Mood 417–418
awards won by 435
Green Thursday 200
Peterson, Dorothy 373
Peterson, Jerome Bowers 418
Petry, Ann Lane 418–419Index 607