Phi Beta Kappa 419
Fisher, Rudolph John Chauncey, as
member of 164
and Fisk University 167
and Harvard University 528
Hill, Leslie Pinckney, as member of
239
Locke, Alain, as member of 318
Logan, Rayford, as member of 321
Popel, Esther A. B., as member of 427
Redding, Jay Saunders, as member of
443
Robeson, Paul, as member of 456
Trotter, William Monroe, as member of
224
Waldo, Frank, as member of 174
Phi Beta Sigma 250
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania vii, 419–420
as a setting 512
photography, and Van Vechten, Carl
542–543
Pickens, William 420–421, 571
Bursting Bonds 69
investigation of Garvey, Marcus Mosiah
222
Vengeance of the Gods and Three Other
Stories of Real American Color Line
Life 544
Picture-Poetry Book, The(McBrown) 421
Pierce, Billy 421
“Pink Hat, The” (Day) 421
Piranean Club 35, 45, 420, 421–422
Pittsburgh Courier70, 422
columnists of 32, 448
editors of 472, 539
reporters of 431, 458
Plays and Pageants from the Life of the Negro
(Richardson) 422–423
editor of 451
one-act plays in 195, 249–250, 453,
522
plays in 462, 502
Plays for a Negro Theatre(Torrence) 193
Plays of Negro Life: A Sourcebook of Native
American Drama(Locke and Gregory)
423
co-editors of 202–203, 320
one-act plays in 24–25, 193, 497
plays in 184, 337
Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral
(Fauset, J.) 153, 423–425
Plumes: Folk Tragedy(Johnson, G. D.) 285,
374, 425–426
Poems(Fernandis) 426
Poet and Other Poems, The(Dandridge) 111,
426
Poetic Pearls(Figgs) 157, 426–427
Poetry of the American Negro, 1746–1949,
The(Hughes and Bontemps) 226
Popel, Esther A. B. 427
Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti(Hughes
and Bontemps) 257, 282, 427–428
Porgy(Heyward, DuBose) (novel) 236, 428
Porgy(Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy)
(play) 236, 429
actors in 397, 559, 565
Porgy and Bess236, 429
and Gershwin, George 181
and Heyward, Dorothy 235
“Possible Trial on Black Notes, A” (Bonner)
429–430
Poston, Robert Lincoln 430–431
“Makin’ of Mamma Harris, The” 329
and Savage, Augusta Christine Fell 467
Poston, Theodore (Ted) Roosevelt 431
and Black and White36, 346
Pot Maker, The (A Play to Be Read)(Bonner)
431–432
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. 2
Powell, Adam Clayton, Sr. 2, 198, 432
Prancing Nigger(Firbank) 432–433
Pratt Institute 433
Price, Doris D. 433
Bright Medallion, The 64
Eyes of the Old, The 147
Two Gods: A Minaret 531
Princeton University 433–434
“Prison Bound, The” (Bonner) 434
“Prologue to a Life” (West) 434
Provincetown Players 268, 323, 434–435,
456
and plays of O’Neill, Eugene 404
publishers
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 5–6
Boni & Liveright 52
Harcourt & Brace 212
Harper & Brothers 221–222
J. B. Lippincott and Company
273–274
Macaulay Publishing Company 328
Macmillan Company 328
Sherman French and Company 479
Pulitzer Prize 435
novels that won a 267, 418
and O’Neill, Eugene 403
plays that won a 199, 323
Purnell, Idella 411
Purple Flower, The(Bonner) 435
Q
Quicksand(Larsen) 6, 35, 305, 368,
436–437
R
race riots 444–445
Rachel(Grimké) 204, 327, 438–439, 450
racial segregation laws. SeeJim Crow
Radcliffe College 224, 439–440
“Rainy Season Love Song” (Hayford) 227
Randolph, A(sa) Philip vii, viii, 408–409,
440–441,441, 442
founder of Messenger, The 346
Rand School of Social Science 441–442
Ransom, Birdelle Wycoff 442Rapp, William Jourdan vii, 442, 520
Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in
Harlem(Thurman and Rapp)
214–215
Jeremiah, the Magnificent275–276
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan 442–443
“Red Cape, The” (Schalk) 443, 470
Redding, Jay Saunders 68, 443–444
To Make a Poet Black 523
Red Scare 444
and Bennett, Gwendolyn 30
Red Summer of 1919 163, 444–445
Reid, Ira De Augustine 445–446
Reinhardt, Max 446
Reiss, Winold 272, 382, 446–447, 464
Renaissance Ballroom 447
“Replica” (Carter, Eunice) 447–448
“Return of a Modern Prodigal, The”
(Wynbush) 448
Reynolds, Evelyn Crawford 448
No Alabaster Box 392
Rhodes Scholarship 224, 318, 409, 449
Rice, Albert 449
Richardson, Willis 266, 450–451
Black Horseman, The41–42
Broken Banjo, The64–65
Chip Woman’s Fortune, The 81
Compromise: A Folk Play 91
Flight of the Natives, The 168
House of Sham, The249–250
and the Krigwa Players 299
Mortgaged 351
Near Calvary 368
Negro History in Thirteen Plays 374
Plays and Pageants from the Life of the
Negro 422
“Rich Man, Poor Man” (Coleman)
451–452
Rideout, Ransom 452
Goin’ Home 187
Rider of Dreams, The(Torrence) 452–453,
526
production of 365
Riding the Goat(Sullivan) 422, 453, 502
Ridley, Florida Ruffin 453–454
“He Must Think It Out” 231–232
“Ringtail” (Fisher) 454
River George(Lee) 309, 454–455
Robertson, Willard, andBlack Velvet 48
Robeson, Eslanda Cardozo Goode vi, 455,
455–456
and Robeson, Paul 456
Robeson, Paul vii, 42, 455,456–457, 457
in All God’s Chillun Got Wings
(O’Neill) 7
in Black Boy(Tully and Dazey) 37
in Emperor Jones, The141, 142, 404
first stage performance by 452
involvement with the Communist Party
91
as one of the Ethiopian Art Players
145608 Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance