...This chapter examines how Claude Barnett, along with many other Negro leaders, had exerted his influence to make sure that President Truman was reelected though they had undercut the anti-Jim Crow movement by scorning the most resolute, including the defeated Henry Wallace and Paul Robeson...

... American Committee to Save Refugees Council on Negro Culture Basie Count Divine Comedy Negro Playwrights Company (NPC) Shakespeare John Reed Club Langston Hughes Paul Robeson While Wright left behind no direct reference to childhood encounters with formal theater, the Mississippi-born author...

... the right of nations to self-determination. Adamic attempted to advance his beliefs by working on former vice president Henry Wallace’s 1948 bid for president on the Progressive party ticket, going on lecture tours with Paul Robeson, and battling anticommunists, especially Catholics. Adamic’s ties to Josip...

... and marginalized, progressive editors and activists revived a struggling alternative black press – with Paul Robeson’s Freedom being the most notable publication – to challenge the politcs of integration. Meanwhile, national newspapers’ circulations collapsed as they encountered new competitive...

... Activities Committee HUAC American political thought Paul Robeson Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis convened a historic meeting at the Hotel Roosevelt on December 3, 1943, between the Major League Baseball club owners and the publishers of eight leading African American newspapers. Heretofore...

...This concluding chapter argues that the decline of forces represented by Paul Robeson meant that forces symbolized by Claude Barnett, who were surely interested in Pan-Africanism but also were seeking profitable investments, meant they were conflicting with African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah who...