caste system among, 2.1, 3.1–3.2, 4.1
gradual independence gained by, 2.1
music of, 6.1–6.2
pride and ambition of, 2.1, 2.2
West Indies, University of, 3.1
West Virginia State College, 17.1
What’s My Line?, 8.1
“Whispering,” 5.1
Whitaker, Rogers E. M., 6.1, 11.1
White, Charlie, 10.1
White, Josh, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2
White, Loray, 10.1–10.2
White House, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Oval Office of, 12.1, 14.1, 14.2
Rose Garden of, 14.1–14.2
white supremacy, 12.1, 15.1
Wicker, Tom, 13.1, 16.1
Wicks, Virginia, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 5.4–5.5, 6.1–6.2
Wilkins, Roy, 10.1, 11.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2
Will Mastin Trio, 11.1
Wiltwyck School, 11.1
“Wimoweh,” 6.1
Winchell, Walter, 1.1, 7.1, 12.1
Windsor Mountain School, 12.1, 17.1
Winston, Henry, 17.1
Winters, Shelley, 6.1, 6.2–6.3
Wise, Robert, 11.1–11.2
Wiz, The (Smalls), 4.1
WJZ radio, 5.1
Wofford, Harris, 11.1–11.2
Wolcott, Jackie, 12.1
Wolff, Claude, 16.1–16.2
Wolmer’s Boys’ School, 3.1
women’s movement, 16.1
Woodard, Isaac, 4.1
Woodlawn Cemetery, 18.1–18.2
Woodward, Joanne, 14.1
Work, Craig, 6.1, 6.2–6.3, 6.4
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 20.1
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The (film), 11.1–11.2, 11.3
World Peace Congress, 5.1
World Trade Center, 19.1, 19.2
World War I, 4.1, 19.1
World War II, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1, 12.1, 15.1
Allies in, 3.1–3.2, 11.1
draft deferments in, 4.1
German prisoners of war in, 4.1
Nazi aggression in, 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 11.1
Pacific theater in, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1
war industry in, 4.1, 8.1
Wright, Melvine, see Belafonte, Melvine Love “Millie”
Wright, Raymond (half brother), 3.1–3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 18.1, 18.2–18.3
Wright, Shirley (half sister), 3.1–3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 18.1
Wright, William “Bill” (stepfather), 3.1, 3.2–3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 8.1, 10.1–10.2, 11.1–11.2, 18.1
Wyman, Jane, 11.1
Wynn, Steve, 18.1
Yiddish theater, 4.1
Young, Andrew, 15.1, 16.1–16.2, 16.3, 19.1
Young, Lester, 4.1–4.2, 5.1–5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 19.1
Youngblood (Killens), 5.1
Youngman, Henny, 6.1
Youngstein, Max, 11.1
Zanuck, Darryl, 7.1–7.2, 9.1–9.2, 10.1–10.2
Zarowitz, Jerry, 15.1–15.2
Ziegfield Follies, 7.1
Zionism, 4.1
PHOTO CREDITS
1. Album covers: Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment
2. Belafonte onstage: Archive Photos/Getty Images
3. Belafonte with the band: Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
4. Belafonte onstage at the Cocoanut Grove: Ralph Crane/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
5. Time cover: From Time magazine, March 2, © 1959, Time Inc. Used under license.
6. Ebony magazine: Courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Age five, with my mother and brother Dennis, 1932
First Holy Communion, 1934
With my father, who is being sworn in as an American citizen
My first love, Jackie Bowie, 1943
In the U.S. Navy, 1944
With my first wife, Marguerite, 1948
With Marguerite, Adrienne, and Shari
With my second wife, Julie, Adrienne, Shari, David, and Gina
With my son, David, eighteen months
The four children
With my grandmother on her one hundredth birthday
Paul Robeson signed this program for me in 1973.
An early stage performance of The Petrified Forest, with the Dramatic Workshop in 1944
My first recording, “Lean on Me,” and my first guitarist, Craig Work
With Joe Williams, Langston Hughes, and Duke Ellington on the television special The Strollin’ Twenties
Onstage
(photo credit 2)
Signing autographs for my fans
(photo credit 1)
The gold album of Calypso, presented to me in 1958
With the band
(photo credit 3)
The marquee at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles
The audience and the stage at the Greek Theatre
Onstage at the Cocoanut Grove
(photo credit 4)
Performing with Falumi Prince and Letta Mbulu
With my friend Marlon Brando, 1954
With Dorothy Dandridge during Carmen Jones
With Joan Fontaine in Island in the Sun
Scenes from The World, the Flesh and the Devil; Odds Against Tomorrow; and The Angel Levine
A poster for The World, the Flesh and the Devil
With Sidney Poitier shooting Buck and the Preacher
In Uptown Saturday Night
With John Travolta in White Man’s Burden
With Robert Altman
On the cover of Time magazine, 1959
(photo credit 5)
With Muhammad Ali
With Lena Horne
On the set of Sesame Street
With Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier on The New Bill Cosby Show
With Tony Curtis
With Sammy Davis, Jr., on the set of The Strollin’ Twenties
With Ed Sullivan
Guest hosting The Tonight Show with guests (right to left) Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Newman, Leon Bibb, Nipsey Russell, and Ed McMahon, 1968
And Dionne Warwick, 1968
And Paul Newman, 1968
And the Smothers Brothers and Bill Cosby, 1968
And Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
With Common on the cover of Ebony magazine
(photo credit 6)
On the cover of Jet magazine
A stamp from Grenada
A concert program from Japan
A concert program from a 1983 tour
With Eleanor Roosevelt
A letter from Eleanor Roosevelt
The program from John F. Kennedy’s inauguration
The program from John F. Kennedy’s inauguration
The program from John F. Kennedy’s inauguration
With John F. Kennedy
My first meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
And backstage at Madison Square Garden
With Jackie Robinson
At a labor rally of garment workers in New York
With President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson
With Coretta Scott King, Martin King III, and Dexter at Dr. King’s funeral
With Julie and Moshe Dayan
With Alan King at a command performance for the Queen of England
In Sudan
With UNICEF in Rwanda
In Ethiopia
With my wife, Pam, and President Nelson Mandela
With President Bill Clinton
With former governor of New York Mario Cuomo
Accepting an honorary degree from Columbia University
The first photograph that my wife, Pam, ever took of me, in 1964
With Pam on our wedding day
Our whole family on our wedding day, with officiant former New York City mayor David Dinkins (second row, right)
Another day for “Day-O”
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