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I index I 283 I Alexander, Will, 84, 85, 131 Algren, Nelson: advice for Walker, 213; as editor of New Anvil journal, 128, 214; Federal Writers’ Project and, 178, 179; on Native Son, 205, 271n111; naturalistic vision of, 7, 205–206; work: Never Come Morning, 205 Allen, Frederick Lewis, 51 Alpha Phi Alpha (black fraternity), 40, 245n41 Alsberg, Henry, 176, 177 Altheimer, Josh, 100 American Conservatory of Music, 95, 97 American Federation of Musicians, Local 208, 4, 66–67, 107, 108 Americanization, 28, 34–35 American Journal of Sociology, 120 American Magazine, 25 American Negro Exposition (Coliseum), 7–8, 141, 151, 159, 181 American Sociological Association (ASA), 35, 36 American Writers’ Congress, 127, 177, 214 American Youth for Democracy, 210 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 85 Amini, Johari, 233 Ammons, Albert, 102 Anderson, Margaret, 79 Anderson, Marian: Chicago connections of, 130; community lecture by, 172; White’s depiction of, 149–150, plate 6 Anderson, Nels, 35 Anderson, Regina, 50, 51, 52, 248n104 Anderson, Sherwood, 57, 75, 79, 115, 202 Angell, James Rowland, 82 ANP (Associated Negro Press), 147, 162, 210 anthropology, 109–113 “anxiety of influence,” xiv Apex Club, 64, 67, 68 Apilado, Ruth, 273n49 Apollo Records, 106 Apollo Theater, 107 Armstrong, Lil Hardin, 66 Armstrong, Louis “Satchmo”: achievements of, 2, 94; background of, 65–66; Chicago venues played by, 66–67; mob connections of, 107; works: “Cornet Chop Suey,” 66; “Gut Bucket Blues,” 66; “Heebie Jeebies,” 66; “Potato Head Blues,” 66; “Weather Bird,” 67; “West End Blues,” 67 Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 14, 60 Armstrong Association, 21 “art as weapon vs. art for art’s sake” dichotomy, 156–157 Art Crafts Guild: fund-raising for artists by, 141–142; members of, 145, 148, 159–160; South Side Community Center and, 143 Art Institute of Chicago: access to, 148; Bellows’s exhibition and lectures at, 71–72; Chicago-area artists annual exhibition of, 72; collection of, 140; “The Eight” exhibition at, 139; “Negro in Art Week” exhibition of, 70–71; Perkins’s work at, 159; referenced, 190; reputation of, 69. See also School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Artists and Models Ball (1938), 143 Artists Union, Chicago affiliate, 142, 144 Art of the American Negro (exhibition), 141 Abbott, Edith, 29, 40, 243n74 Abbott, Edna, 63 Abbott, Lyman, 23 Abbott, Robert Sengstacke: background of, 61; black ballet troupe and, 81; “Bookerism sui generis” view of, 60; Chicago Urban League role of, 40; illustration, 63; on “The Negro in Music” program, 96; politics of, 62; on race riot commission, 47–49. See also Abbott’s Monthly; Chicago Defender Abbott’s Monthly, 81, 116, 174, 208 Abraham Lincoln Centre, 29, 115, 148, 163, 165, 167 Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York), 89 Achebe, Chinua, xi Adams, Charles Francis, 19 Addams, Jane, 28, 29, 40. See also Hull House Adler, Dankmar, 27 African Americans: audience of, 91, 170–176, 191, 200–201, 232; grotesque visual stereotypes of, 148, 151; in Locke’s global perspective, 55–56; racial progress strategies of, 59–61; shifting political loyalties of, 92–93; upward mobility among, 185; as veterans, 46, 59, 84, 98, 221–222. See also dance; documentary movement; institutions; literature; migrants; music; New Negro movement; theater; visual arts African Methodist Episcopal Church, 28–29 Agee, James, 131 Alabama. See Scottsboro case (1931) Alexander, Black Bob, 99–100 Note: Boldface italic page numbers indicate illustrations. 284 I Index Baldwin, William, III, 51 Baldwin, William Henry, Jr.: background of, 19, 29; Progressive efforts of, 17–18, 21; Tuskegee role of, 20, 60 Baltimore Afro-American, 43 Bancroft, Edgar, 47–49 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 232 Barbour, Thomas, 23 Barnett, Claude, 162, 177, 210 Barthé, Richmond: at Art Institute of Chicago, 69; as art juror, 141; exhibition of, 253n107; fellowship for, 81; illustration, 70; racial art of, 72 Bates, Ruby, 91 Beatty, Talley, 109 Beaux Arts Ball (Stevens Hotel), 81, 96 bebop music, 106–108 Bechet, Sidney, 64 Beiderbecke, Bix, 67 Bell, Bernard, 185, 205, 270n90 Bellow, Saul, 178 Bellows, George, 71–72, 139 Benchley, Robert, 54 Benet, William Rose, 209 Bennett, Gwendolyn, 50, 51, 248n104 Berean Baptist Church, 94–95 Berman, Bess, 106 Best, Wallace, 147 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 95 Bethesda Baptist Church, 95 Bethune, Mary McCleod, 89 Bibb, Joseph, 69 Bigard, Barney, 64 Binga, Jesse, 60, 64, 76, 92 Birth of a Nation, The (film), 44, 49–50, 55 Black Arts Movement, 1, 232–233 Black Belt: use of term, 1, 62, 115, 122, 130, 136, 179. See also Bronzeville; South Side Black Chicago Renaissance: Bone...