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Index The letter i following a page number denotes an illustration. African diaspora, 3, 4, 11, 14, 15; and the council, 50, 74, 88, 98, 109, 178; and Freedom , 176; and SNYC, 20, 64, 117, 180 African National Congress (ANC), 56, 131, 134, 151, 152, 169 Afro-American. See Baltimore Afro-American American Committee on Africa (ACOA), 156 American Crusade Against Lynching, 111 American Peace Mobilization, 42, 43, 44 American Student Union (ASU), 23, 24 American Youth Congress (AYC), 24, 36, 39, 43 Anderson, Marian, 130, 131 Anticommunism, 10, 16; and the Cold War, 31, 109, 125, 145, 157, 161; and SNYC, 168, 170 Anti-Poll Tax Week, 41, 42, 77 Apartheid, 48, 63, 139, 148, 151, 152, 156, 169 Aptheker, Herbert, 14, 119, 151, 162 Atlantic Charter, 1, 16; and the council, 56, 85, 86, 89, 91, 99–100, 103, 104, 109, 153; and WWII, 15, 66–70, 189–91 Baltimore Afro-American, 161, 162, 167 Bandung Conference, 16, 154, 155, 169, 175 Bass, Charlotta, 87, 161 “Behold the Land,” 3–4, 117, 119, 178, 180–89, 193n3, 210n59 Benedict College, 1, 182 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 26; council supporter , 94, 98, 131, 203n7, 204n41; SNYC supporter, 70, 76, 80 Bilbo, Theodore, 110, 111, 120 Birmingham, Ala., 18, 28, 108, 144, 178; as headquarters of SNYC, 40, 42, 77, 81, 112, 113, 179; SNYC 1948 conference in, 122–26, 136, 168; SNYC meetings in, 37, 39, 76 Birmingham World, 123, 137 Black Belt thesis, 59. See also Self-determination Black freedom movement. See Black freedom struggle Black freedom struggle, 8, 9, 20, 30 “Black-labor-left” coalitions, 2, 10, 30, 55, 64, 178 Black Reconstruction in America, 3, 194n11 Browder, Earl, 136, 138 Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 80 Brown v. Board of Education, 8, 10, 127, 155, 174, 175 Bunche, Ralph, 22, 51, 55, 98, 197n26 Burnham, Dorothy, 80, 122, 164, 171 Burnham, Louis, 1, 24, 72, 73, 75, 80, 85, 119i, 123, 166; and Cavalcade, 38, 44; and Freedom, 74, 128, 172, 175; and Freedomways , 177; and Progressive Party, 122, 162; and SNYC 1946 conference, 112, 113, 114; and SNYC 1948 conference, 123, 124, 125 Byrnes, James, 3, 50, 99, 115, 116, 117, 185 234 · Index Caravan Puppeteers, 19, 36, 80 Catchings, Rose Mae, 78, 80 Cavalcade, 18, 19, 35, 42, 79, 126; founding of, 38–40; global outlook in, 43, 44, 45; women in, 80, 81–83, 85 Churchill, Winston, 67, 86, 89, 90, 105, 118, 135, 189, 190 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 178, 179 Civil Rights Congress (CRC), 28, 111, 121, 134, 136, 143; Cold War and, 150, 172 Clark, Septima, 179 Cold War, 6, 7, 10, 55, 66, 146, 155; and the council, 100, 139, 149, 153, 156, 157–58; and Freedom, 17, 160, 167, 168, 169, 176, 177; repression of left, 11, 16, 23, 109, 136, 147, 161; and SNYC, 29, 31, 79, 116, 122, 125, 146 Columbia, S.C., 1, 46, 74, 112–18, 181–82 Communist International (Comintern), 12, 54, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 136 Communist Party (CPUSA), 15, 107; and African Americans, 13, 23, 27, 28, 34, 58, 59, 79, 173; and Cold War, 118, 121, 126, 136, 137, 140, 143, 146, 147, 170, 174; and the council, 55, 56, 60, 63, 64, 138, 139, 153, 156; and Freedom, 163, 165; and Popular Front, 5, 12, 54, 55; and SNYC, 20, 26, 28, 29, 47, 52, 53; and the South, 6; and WWII, 44, 45 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 27, 33, 34, 46, 75, 83, 131, 170, 180; merge with American Federation of Labor (AFL), 171 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 30, 156 Connor, Eugene“Bull,” 123, 126 Cooper, Esther. See Jackson, Esther Cooper Council on African Affairs, 2, 12, 16, 113; 1944 conference, 90–94; campaigns of, 62, 69, 70, 94, 149; and Cold War, 109, 129–46, 147, 153–58; coverage of Bandung , 154–55; and CPUSA, 14, 56–61, 63, 121, 141; decline of, 146–58; legacies of, 156–58; origins of, 5–9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 47, 48–51, 52–55; and PAC, 100–102; and Peekskill, 142–44; and South Africa, 63–64, 129–33, 151–52; split within, 136–39; and UN, 95–98, 99, 100, 133, 139, 140; during WWII, 85–105. See also New Africa; Spotlight on Africa Crisis, 24, 25, 140, 141 Daily Worker, 43, 131, 133i, 161, 163i Dale, Thelma, 81, 162, 164, 175 Dark Princess, 3, 194n12 Davis, Angela, 125, 127 Davis, Ben, 131, 162, 173 Davis, John...

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