Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 | Ambivalent Inclusion 15 2 | Hooked on Classics 33 3 | The Editor’s Dilemma 81 4 | Constructing G.I. Joe Louis 123 5 | Variety for the Servicemen 159 6 | Projecting Unity 193 Epilogue 241 Notes 253 Bibliography 287 Index 301 ILLUSTRATIONS Hallie Flanagan, national director of the FTP 38 New York City FTP Negro Unit theater and stage workers 48 Clarence Muse, Los Angeles FTP Negro Unit director 49 Scene from Walk Together, Chillun 58 Cast of Swing Mikado 67 Four Jitterbugs from Swing Mikado 71 Eleanor Roosevelt and Colonel Harrington 76 Jitterbugs dance in the aisle at New York Swing Mikado 77 Joe Louis demonstrates boxing technique to soldiers 128 Elmer Davis, director of the OWI 130 Joe Louis and his fellow soldiers 147 Joe Louis boxes Elza Thompson 149 Enlistment poster featuring Joe Louis 154 Staff of the AFRS (c. 1942) 164 Tom Lewis, commander of the AFRS 165 Black infantrymen in training, Fort Belvoir 168 Major Mann Holiner, producer of Jubilee 176 Ernest Whitman, Lena Horne, and Eddie Green 181 Lena Horne in Stormy Weather (1943) 187 Bing Crosby and Eddie Green 190 Hattie McDaniel and Mary McLeod Bethune 210 Ethel Waters in Cabin in the Sky (1943) 213 Lena Horne and Bill Robinson in Stormy Weather (1943) 217 Multiethnic platoon in Bataan (1943) 223 Scene from Sahara (1943) featuring Rex Ingram 225 Cast of Lifeboat (1944) featuring Canada Lee 229 This page intentionally left blank ...