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indeX Abbott, Robert S., 15–27, 291, 293, 450, 456–57 Addams, Jane, 19, 117, 251 AFL (American Federation of Labor), 492–94 Africa: attitudes towards, 369; Back to Africa Movement, 21, 171, 326; heritage, 224; independence movements, 197; literature about, 154, 210, 329, 453–54; music, 45; plays about, 329, 471; press coverage, 54–55, 57; struggles of, 102, 151; visits to, 107, 109, 116, 152, 158, 367 African American culture: art of, 154; literature about, 134, 141, 145, 156, 250, 302; social commentators of, 57, 146, 251 African American families: intra-family relations , 480; migration, 186; relations, 278; struggles, 188, 325, 419 African Art, 152–53, 158 Algren, Nelson: acquaintances of, 300, 347; influence on authors, 121, 135; influence on Chicago Renaissance, 8; on Let No Man Write My Epitaph, 268; as a member of LAW, 496; on A Raisin in the Sun, 199 American Federation of Labor. See AFL American Negro Exposition, 11, 57 American South: criticisms of, 345, 348, 370; experiences in, 367, 388; literature about, 302, 350, 402; people from, 86 Anderson, Sherwood, 6, 15, 253, 495 Annie Allen (Brooks), 62, 96, 100–102, 113, 477 ANP (Associated Negro Press): coverage by, 54–55, 57–58; founding of, 53–54; goals of, 54, 56–57; members of, 164, 167, 169–70, 177, 179; press similar to, 457; relations with the Defender, 55, 144 Anvil: and the Chicago Renaissance, 2; as an important publishing outlet, 9, 490; literature of, 347, 492; merge of, with Partisan Review, 494; replacement of, 497 Armstrong, Louis, 26, 163 Art Institute of Chicago, 11, 186–87, 239, 277 Associated Negro Press. See ANP Atlanta World, 162 Attaway, William: birth of, 30; death of, 48; and Ellison, 37, 41; in “Five Negro Novelists : Revolt and Retreat,” 338; in high school, 31–32; involvement in Work Progress Administration, 386; and Left, 34, 36, 43; life of, 30–48; marriage of, 47; in Negro Digest, 235; reviews of, 36–37, 40–41; role in Chicago Renaissance, 76, 465, 498; Rosenwald Fellowship, 10; and the Rosenwald Fund, 37–38; and stage, 45–46; and television , 44, 46–48; and Wright, 33, 41 Attaway, William, works of: Blood on the Forge (see Blood on the Forge); “Carnival,” 32; “Death of a Rag Doll,” 43; Hear American Singing, 46; Let Me Breathe Thunder, 30, 35–37, 40, 46, 48; “Tale of the Blackamoor ,” 43 Augusta, GA, 386–90, 397 autobiography: of Barnett, 179; Black Boy, 360, 364–65, 371; of Brooks, 109, 116; of Davis, 180; of Johnson, 239; of Parks, 274–77, 280–81, 283 An Autobiography of Black Jazz (Travis), 426–27 Baldwin, James: literary criticism of, 70, 121; meeting with Kennedy, 194; message at the funeral of Hansberry, 211; opinions 514 • indeX of, 194, 199, 207, 373, 380, 398; relation to Walker, 308; role in Black Arts Movement, 311; role in Chicago Renaissance, 1 Barnett, Claude: and the ANP, 55, 179, 457; death of, 58; education of, 53; life of, 53– 58; as a media entrepreneur, 53, 58; “The Negro Press in Americas War Effort,” 55; opinions of, 170; politics of, 56; and the WNP, 57 beauty: appreciation of, 173, 274–76; in the environment, 122; in literature, 151, 154– 55, 301, 475–76; in photography, 276, 278, 283, 285; as political resistance, 150 Belafonte, Harry, 44, 46–47, 482 Bigger Thomas, 353–58; articles about, 341, 346; importance of, to Chicago Renaissance , 13, 431; literary criticism of, 193, 373, 468–70; origin of, 344; similarities of, to other works, 378 black actors, 22, 46–47, 417 Black Arts Movement: effect of, on Walker, 313; importance of, 1; influence of Brooks on, 13; influence of Danner on, 150; literary works of, 305, 308, 311, 316; music of, 444; opinions of, 373 Black Belt: communism in, 175; migration to, 7–8, 450; music of, 12; as a nation, 490; struggles in, 11 Black Boy/American Hunger (Wright): comparisons of, to other literature, 371–72, 378; history of, 276, 360, 363–65, 465; influence of, 341, 379; reviews of, 81, 364, 368; themes in, 342, 345–46, 358, 361–62, 364 black families: in literature, 90, 92, 124–25, 401, 419, 481; struggles of, 420 Black Federal Theatre, 325, 413 Black Jazz, 426–27 black musicians, 402, 424–25, 427, 443–44, 483 Black Power, 341, 369, 373 Black Press: and the ANP, 55–57; and Browning, 134; and the Chicago Renaissance , 448–60; columns, 20, 22, 143–45, 162–63, 167, 170, 174, 178, 235...

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