Index
- Allied Record Manufacturing Company,
[38](#p38), [40-41](#p40), [43](#p43), [48](#p48), [53](#p53)
- American Federation of Musicians,
[20-21](#p20), [56](#p56), [99](#p99), [100](#p100)
- American Symphony Orchestra League,
[147](#p147), [172](#p172), [176-77](#p176)
- Anderson, Ivie,
[25](#p25)
- Anderson, Marian,
[82](#p82), [158](#p158), [175](#p175)
- Angel City Symphony Orchestra,
[86](#p86), [97-111](#p97), [121-25](#p121), [127](#p127), [133](#p133), [138](#p138), [160](#p160), [166-67](#p166), [175-76](#p175), [177-78](#p177)
- Angel City Symphony Society,
[156](#p156)
- Angelus Funeral Home,
[32](#p32), [57](#p57)
- Arnheim, Gus,
[15](#p15), [24](#p24)
- Association of California Symphony Orchestras,
[177](#p177)
- Barzin, Leon,
[64-66](#p64)
- Benjamin, Fanny,
[155](#p155)
- Bentley, Gladys,
[54-55](#p54)
- Berkshire Music Center,
[69-70](#p69), [178](#p178)
- Bernstein, Elmer,
[105](#p105), [175](#p175)
- Bernstein, Leonard,
[69-70](#p69)
- Bihari, Joseph,
[45](#p45), [92](#p92)
- Bland, Ed,
[139](#p139)
- Blaychetti, Lucille,
[14](#p14)
- Boorstin, Leni Isaacs,
[173-74](#p173)
- Bradley, Thomas,
[178](#p178)
- Broadway Federal Savings and Loan,
[117](#p117)
- Bronze Recording Company,
[23](#p23), [36](#p36), [37](#p37), [40](#p40), [41-56](#p41), [61-62](#p61), [90-91](#p90), [138](#p138), [159](#p159), [165-66](#p165)
- Browne, Samuel,
[9-10](#p9), [13](#p13), [75](#p75)
- Bunche, Ralph J.,
[77](#p77), [78](#p78)
- Burke, C.L. (Cecil),
[52](#p52)
- California Arts Council,
[111](#p111), [122](#p122), [133](#p133), [139](#p139)
- California Eagle (newspaper),
[162-63](#p162)
- Calker, Darryl,
[52-53](#p52), [64](#p64), [72](#p72)
- Calliet, Lucien,
[168](#p168)
- Capitol Records,
[45](#p45), [52](#p52)
- Carter, Roland,
[139](#p139)
- Central Casting Agency,
[28](#p28)
- Clark Hotel,
[25](#p25)
- Club Alabam,
[16](#p16), [20](#p20), [78](#p78)
- Cobb, Irving,
[17](#p17)
- Collette, Buddy,
[20](#p20), [105](#p105)
- Columbia Records,
[45](#p45)
- Compton Symphony,
[121](#p121)
- Coney Island Chili Parlor,
[26](#p26)
- Crosby, Bing,
[17](#p17)
- Davis and Schwegler.
See Keystone Broadcasting Company
- Davis, Richard,
[16](#p16)
- Dawson, Jim,
[46](#p46)
- Dawson, William,
[137](#p137), [156](#p156)
- Decca Records,
[45](#p45), [53-54](#p53), [91](#p91)
- de Pinto, Victor,
[103](#p103), [104](#p104)
- Dixon, Dean,
[93-94](#p93)
- Dunbar Hotel,
[16](#p16), [25](#p25), [27](#p27), [32](#p32)
- Ellington, Duke,
[20](#p20)
- Euterpeans (musical group),
[83-84](#p83)
- Excelsior Records,
[89](#p89), [91](#p91)
- Exclusive Records,
[18](#p18), [45](#p45), [52](#p52), [89](#p89), [91](#p91)
- Fisher, Reginald,
[114](#p114)
- Five Soul Stirrers (musical group),
[42](#p42), [51](#p51), [55](#p55)
- Flash Record Store,
[23-24](#p23), [35](#p35), [36-39](#p36), [87-89](#p87), [90](#p90)
- Flash Records,
[87-88](#p87)
- Fleischmann, Ernest,
[145](#p145), [146-47](#p146), [171-73](#p171)
- Four Blackbirds (musical group),
[12](#p12), [15-21](#p15), [24](#p24), [26-30](#p26), [35](#p35), [38-39](#p38), [62](#p62), [63](#p63)
- Four Tones (musical group),
[45](#p45)
- Four Trumpets (musical group),
[12](#p12)
- Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club (Culver City, California),
[19-20](#p19)
- Fresno Philharmonic,
[174-75](#p174)
- Gant, Cecil,
[43](#p43), [46-47](#p46), [50-51](#p50), [54](#p54), [55](#p55)
- Garner, George,
[175](#p175)
- Gilt Edge Records,
[43-44](#p43), [48](#p48), [50](#p50)
- Glendale Symphony Orchestra,
[124](#p124)
- Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company,
[32](#p32), [57](#p57), [117](#p117), [164](#p164)
- Gold's Furniture Store,
[23](#p23), [25](#p25)
- Gorin, Boris,
[99](#p99), [102](#p102)
- Gray, John A.,
[14](#p14), [82](#p82)
- Gunn, Mabel Massengale,
[104](#p104)
- Hahn, Kenneth,
[101](#p101), [122](#p122)
- Hairston, Jester,
[34](#p34), [137](#p137)
- Hall Johnson Choir,
[33](#p33), [34](#p34)
- Harlem Dukes (musical group),
[20](#p20), [78-79](#p78)
- Harris, Geraldine,
[16](#p16)
- Hawkins, Walter,
[146](#p146)
- Hite, Les,
[20](#p20)
- Hollywood Bowl,
[85](#p85), [158](#p158)
- Hurt, Charles (father),
[1-3](#p1), [4-5](#p4), [27](#p27), [28-29](#p28), [31](#p31), [33](#p33), [131](#p131), [163](#p163)
- Hurt, Dora Grayson (mother),
[1](#p1), [2](#p2), [4-5](#p4), [27](#p27), [131](#p131)
- Hurte, Hazel McCloud (wife),
[161](#p161), [170](#p170), [179](#p179)
- Hurte, Leroy, Jr. (son),
[2](#p2), [160](#p160), [161](#p161)
- Hurte, Marlene (daughter),
[2](#p2)
- Hurte, Sylvia Ann (daughter),
[2](#p2), [160](#p160)
- Inglewood Philharmonic Orchestra,
[86](#p86), [122](#p122), [124](#p124), [132-40](#p132), [142-43](#p142), [149](#p149), [156-57](#p156), [160](#p160)
- Ivie's Chicken Shack,
[25](#p25)
- Jefferson High School,
[6](#p6), [8-12](#p8), [14-15](#p14), [71](#p71), [75-78](#p75), [87](#p87)
- Jeffries, Herb,
[34](#p34)
- Jockey Club,
[25-26](#p25)
- Johnson, James Weldon,
[139](#p139)
- Johnson, John Rosamond,
[139](#p139)
- Jones Boys (musical group),
[18](#p18)
- Jordan High School,
[112](#p112)
- Juilliard School,
[62-64](#p62), [66-68](#p66), [94](#p94)
- Kelly, Constance,
[177](#p177)
- Kenneth Morris (music publishing company),
[86-87](#p86)
- Keystone Broadcasting Company,
[53](#p53)
- KOAD (radio station),
[125-30](#p125)
- Koussevitzky, Serge,
[70](#p70)
- Kunin's Furniture Store,
[23](#p23)
- Lacey, Millard,
[113](#p113)
- Lafayette Junior High School,
[15](#p15)
- Lantz, Walter,
[52](#p52)
- Laster, Georgia,
[155](#p155)
- Lee, Everett,
[93](#p93)
- Lee, Peggy,
[53-54](#p53)
- Leroy Hurte Chorale,
[112](#p112)
- Leroy Hurte School of Music,
[99-100](#p99)
- Levy, John,
[23](#p23), [36](#p36), [37](#p37), [45](#p45), [90](#p90)
- Lewis, Henry,
[158](#p158)
- Liggins, Joe,
[91](#p91)
- Los Angeles City College,
[72-73](#p72), [150-53](#p150)
- Los Angeles Community Symphony Orchestra,
[105](#p105), [175](#p175)
- Los Angeles County Bureau of Public Assistance,
[131-32](#p131)
- Los Angeles County Music and Performing Arts Commission,
[101](#p101), [132](#p132)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Association,
[173](#p173)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium,
[82](#p82), [169](#p169)
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,
[124](#p124), [144-48](#p144), [158](#p158), [169-74](#p169)
- Los Angeles Sentinel (newspaper),
[47](#p47), [160](#p160), [162-63](#p162), [164](#p164)
- Lyric (magazine),
[112-17](#p112), [131](#p131), [140](#p140), [147-49](#p147), [160](#p160), [171](#p171)
- Lyric Music Store,
[111-12](#p111), [118](#p118), [160](#p160)
- Maazel, Lorin,
[108](#p108)
- MacDavid, Percy,
[113](#p113), [114](#p114), [140](#p140)
- Manual Arts High School,
[15](#p15)
- Matesky, Ralph,
[121](#p121)
- Mayan Theatre,
[11](#p11)
- McCoy, Austin,
[75-77](#p75)
- McCullough, James,
[137](#p137)
- McKinley Junior High School,
[3](#p3), [5-8](#p5), [89](#p89)
- McNeil, Albert,
[155](#p155)
- Mehta, Zubin,
[170-71](#p170)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
[18](#p18)
- Miller, Loren,
[42](#p42)
- Mills Brothers (musical group),
[16](#p16), [19](#p19)
- Mitropoulos, Dmitri,
[109](#p109)
- Morgan, Patric,
[177-78](#p177)
- Music Center of Los Angeles County,
[139](#p139), [147-48](#p147)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
[60](#p60), [178](#p178)
- National Association of Negro Musicians,
[82](#p82), [154-56](#p154)
- National Orchestral Association (New York City),
[63-66](#p63), [94](#p94), [95-96](#p95)
- National Radio and Electronics Schools,
[39](#p39), [169](#p169)
- Newton Bass Stadium (Apple Valley, California),
[142-43](#p142)
- Paige, Raymond,
[63](#p63)
- Pasadena Symphony Orchestra,
[124](#p124)
- Patillo, David,
[16](#p16)
- Patterson, Eddie Marie,
[159](#p159), [161](#p161)
- Perkins, Forrest W.,
[17](#p17), [28](#p28)
- Peters, Arthur,
[49](#p49), [55](#p55)
- Phi Theta Kappa,
[153](#p153)
- Pickering, Edward F.,
[44](#p44), [46](#p46), [90-91](#p90)
- Pleasant, Earl,
[49](#p49)
- Porter, Rudolph,
[141-42](#p141)
- Raines, Earl,
[127](#p127), [142](#p142), [178](#p178)
- René, Leon,
[18](#p18), [44-46](#p44), [52](#p52), [89](#p89), [91](#p91)
- Reynolds, Patrick,
[37](#p37), [87-88](#p87)
- Roberto Martin (music publishing company),
[86-87](#p86)
- Robinson, Earl,
[138](#p138)
- Saint John's Episcopal Church,
[178](#p178)
- Saint Paul Baptist Church choir,
[87](#p87), [88](#p88)
- Sally Martin Singers,
[49](#p49), [55](#p55), [86](#p86)
- Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra,
[124](#p124)
- Schwantner, Joseph,
[139](#p139)
- Screen Actors Guild,
[30](#p30), [35](#p35)
- Second Baptist Church,
[105](#p105)
- S.H. Kress (store),
[49](#p49)
- Simmons, Calvin,
[170](#p170)
- Sing Band,
[18-19](#p18), [24](#p24), [89](#p89)
- Sommerville Hotel.
See Dunbar Hotel
- Southeast Symphony Association,
[103-4](#p103), [156](#p156)
- Southeast Symphony Orchestra,
[102-5](#p102), [124](#p124), [175](#p175)
- Southern Gospel Singers,
[54](#p54), [55](#p55)
- Sowanda, Fela,
[166-67](#p166)
- Still, Judith Anne,
[86](#p86)
- Still, Verna Arvey,
[85](#p85), [157](#p157)
- Still, William Grant,
[85-86](#p85), [106](#p106), [136](#p136), [138](#p138), [156-57](#p156), [158](#p158)
- Stokowski, Leopold,
[69](#p69)
- Stoll, Georgie,
[17](#p17)
- Strode, Woodrow,
[77-78](#p77)
- Tamarind Avenue Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Compton, California),
[145-46](#p145), [173-74](#p173)
- Taylor, Alice,
[169-70](#p169)
- Taylor, Guy,
[174-75](#p174)
- teGroen, John,
[101](#p101)
- Three Gospel Tones (musical group),
[55](#p55)
- University of Southern California,
[168](#p168)
- University of Southern California Symphony,
[168](#p168)
- Urban League,
[60](#p60), [169](#p169)
- van Vactor, Ella,
[72](#p72)
- Verrett, Shirley,
[178-79](#p178)
- Victor de Pinto Symphony Orchestra,
[103-4](#p103)
- Victor Records,
[45](#p45)
- Vincent, Ed,
[134](#p134)
- W and W Records,
[90-91](#p90), [92](#p92)
- Warfield, William,
[139](#p139)
- Warner Bros. Pictures,
[18](#p18)
- Washington, Leon H., Jr.,
[163-64](#p163)
- Washington, Ruth Bromel,
[163](#p163)
- Watts riots,
[123](#p123)
- Watts Summer Festival of Art,
[112](#p112)
- Watts Symphony Orchestra,
[81](#p81), [112](#p112), [118](#p118), [119-22](#p119)
- Weinstein, Lee,
[134](#p134)
- Wiggins, Gerald,
[79-80](#p79)
- Wilkins, William T.,
[13-14](#p13), [72](#p72), [74](#p74), [82](#p82), [114](#p114)
- Williams, Dootsie,
[80-81](#p80)
- Williams, Walter,
[20](#p20), [78-79](#p78)
- Wilshire Ebell Theatre,
[100-102](#p100)
- Woodman Brothers Biggest Little Band in the World,
[20](#p20)
- Woodson, Frank,
[120](#p120)
- Zion Hill Baptist Church Youth Choir,
[87](#p87)