Harlem Nocturne (32 page)

McDowell, Deborah,
192–193

McGarity, Lou,
52fig

McKay, Claude,
182

McKayle, Donald,
65–66
,
191

McRae, Carmen,
119

Mead, Margaret,
71

Merriwether, Louis,
131

Migrants, migration,
5
,
7
,
17
,
28
,
32
,
55
,
100
,
119

Miles College,
59

Military,
6
,
12
,
88–89
,
91
,
111–113

Monk, Thelonious,
13
,
33
,
150
,
159
,
160

Moore, Audley,
136

Morrison, Toni,
117
,
192

Morton, Jelly Roll,
144

Mostel, Zero,
45
,
74

Moten, Benny,
147

Motley, Willard,
114

Movement,
16–17
,
24–25
,
29
,
42
,
55
,
67
,
68
,
69
,
101

Murray, Albert,
113

Music

    
bebop,
11
,
13
,
123
,
150
,
159–162
,
179
,
180
,
181

    
black,
143
,
164
,
180

    
boogie-woogie,
180

    
classical,
165

    
forties and,
5

    
in Harlem, NY,
11–12

    
jazz,
13
,
143
,
157
,
164
,
166
,
179
,
181

    
movement in,
16

    
in New York City, NY,
11–12

    
rhythm and blues,
11

    
swing,
11
,
15
,
159
,
179
,
180

    
See also
Williams, Mary Lou

“Music and Progress” (Williams),
179–180

NAACP.
See
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

The Narrows
(Petry),
88
,
105
,
192

Nash, Joe,
48

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
96
,
113
,
168

National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses,
98

National Association of Graduate Nurses,
98

National Black Nurses Association,
98–99

National Council of Negro Women,
113

National Maritime Workers Union,
35–36
,
47

National Medical Association,
98

National Negro Congress (1936),
8

National Urban League,
96
,
113
,
120

National Youth Administration (NYA),
36–37

Native Son
(Wright),
84–85
,
113
,
116

Naylor, Gloria,
192

Nazism,
6
,
30

Neel, Alice,
188fig
,
189

Negro Bar Association,
98

Negro Digest
,
106
,
113

Negro Freedom Rally (1943),
17
,
19
,
21–24
,
28
,
30
,
50
,
52–53
,
55
,
60
,
62

Negro Liberator
,
135

Negro People's Front,
8

Negro Quarterly
,
106

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,”
53
,
66

Negro Story
,
106

“Negro Women Have a Vote—How Shall They Use It?,”
99

Negro Women Incorporated (NWI),
87
,
99–101
,
109

“Negro Youth's Heritage in Dance” (Jackson),
59

New Dance Group,
37–40
,
68
,
72

New Negro movement,
21–22
,
119

New Republic
,
149

New York City, NY

    
artists in,
1–2
,
11–12

    
culture in,
2

    
obstacles to freedom in,
12–13

    
Petry, Ann and,
12–13
,
85–87
,
185

    
politics in,
2

Primus, Pearl and,
29
,
185

    
racism in,
12–13

Williams, Mary Lou and,
12–13
,
17
,
168–169
,
185

New York Daily News
,
91
,
93

New York Post
,
120

New York Public Library,
85
,
101
,
162

New York Times
,
13
,
23
,
39
,
125
,
126
,
137
,
166
,
191
,
193

New York University,
36
,
71

Nichols, Herbie,
161

Notes of a Native Sun
(Baldwin),
120

Novak, Kim,
104
,
129

“The Novel as Social Criticism” (Petry),
115–118
,
128

Nunn, Bill,
176–177

NYA.
See
National Youth Administration

Oberlin College,
58

O'Brien, Peter,
182

O'Neal, Frederick,
101–102

“On Saturday the Siren Sounds at Noon” (Petry),
81

On Strivers Row
(Hill),
102
,
103

Opportunity
,
106
,
113

Orent, Milton,
150fig
,
156
,
162
,
166

Organized labor,
5
,
6
,
8

Parker, Charles,
166

Parks, Gordon,
174

People's Voice
newspaper,
10
,
84
,
86
,
90–96
,
98
,
130
,
137

Perske, Betty,
46

Petry, Ann,
80fig
,
81
,
149

    
aesthetic concerns of,
3
,
7
,
95
,
114
,
115–118

    
ANT and.
see
American Negro Theater (ANT)

    
appearance of,
84

    
audience of,
84–85

    
background of,
2
,
81–84

    
birth of,
2

    
Communist Party and,
10–11
,
90
,
129–130

    
Davis, Benjamin J., Jr. and,
138

    
democracy and,
3
,
10

    
Double V Campaign and,
5

    
education of,
14–15
,
82–84
,
103
,
104–105

    
everyday people, portrayal of by,
2

    
Harlem, NY and,
2
,
9
,
79
,
81
,
89
,
90–91
,
98
,
110
,
170
,
189

    
Harlem Riots (1943) and,
90
,
118–127

    
Harlem Riots and,
17

    
“In Darkness and Confusion” of,
118

    
as intellectual,
3
,
14–15
,
82–83

    
as journalist,
81
,
84
,
90–96
,
97–98

    
legacy of,
15
,
192–193
,
196–197

    
“Like a Winding Sheet” of,
114

    
The Narrows
of,
105
,
192

    
New York City, NY and,
2
,
12–13
,
85–87
,
185

    
“The Novel as Social Criticism” of,
115–118
,
128

    
NWI and,
99–101

    
People's Voice
and,
10
,
84
,
90–96
,
98

    
personality of,
2

    
political activism of,
3
,
7
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
14
,
81
,
83
,
89–90
,
94–96
,
97–101

    
Popular Front and,
8

    
Reformist Left and,
8

    
relationships of,
86

    
reputation of,
15
,
79

    
screenwriting of,
104
,
129

    
segregation and,
98–99

    
short stories of,
81
,
106
,
114
,
192

    
significance of,
3
,
11
,
15

    
social problems and,
84–85
,
97–98

    
social realism and,
114
,
117

    
“Solo on the Drums” of,
102

    
The Street
of,
81
,
88
,
96–97
,
107
–
114
,
128–129
,
192
,
193

    
See also
Literature

Petry, Elisabeth,
82
,
83
,
87
,
88
,
192

Petry, George David,
85–86
,
88
,
104
,
107
,
111
,
112
,
127
,
128–129

Philadanco,
68

Phylon
,
113

Pittsburgh Courier
,
20
,
140
,
176–177

Plessy, Homer,
27

Plessy v. Ferguson
,
6

PM
newspaper,
8
,
106

Politics

    
art and,
2–3
,
12
,
14

    
Cold War,
4
,
15

    
dance and,
23–25
,
27
,
32
,
38
,
53

    
Double V Campaign and,
6–7

    
forties and,
5

    
militant,
4