Macbeth, Robert: [17] 31-35

MacDonald, John D.: [38] 490-491, 496-497
--A Tan and Sandy Silence: [38] 490-491

Madgett, Naomi Long: [14] 87-88; [30] 143-145
--Exits and Entrances: [14] 87-88
--Remembrances of Spring: [30] 143-145

Madhubuti, Haki R.: [33] 176-179; [39] 20
--GroundWork: [33] 176-179

Mailer, Norman: [12] 12, 15-16, 17-18
--Saint George and the Godfather: [12] 18

Major, Clarence: [12] 32-37; [13] 39-74; [17] 120-123; [23] 197-212; [28] 5-9, 37-140; [33] 209-229; [35] 486-487; [37] 469-471
--"Action": [13] 55
--All-Night Visitors: [12] 32-37; [13] 62, 73; [28] 58-59, 95-108, 125-126, 135-136
--"An Area in the Cerebral Hemisphere": [13] 54
--"Art": [13] 52-53
--"Beast: a new song": [13] 64
--"Conflict": [13] 62-63
--The Cotton Club: [13] 69
--"Dear Freud": [13] 52
--"Early Grave": [13] 54
--Emergency Exit: [12] 33-34; [13] 46-50; [28] 61, 67-69
--"Escape the Close Circle": [13] 54
--"Fish, Tomatoes, Mama & Book": [13] 55
--"Float Up": [13] 64-65
--"Fun and Games": [13] 54
--"Holyghost Woman": [13] 61, 62
--"I Was": [13] 61-62
--"Inscription to the 1st Baptist Church": [13] 61, 62
--Long Bread: [12] 34, 35
--My Amputations: [28] 62, 69-72, 77-87, 135
--"My Child": [13] 64
--"Newhouse": [13] 53
--NO: [12] 33-36; [28] 59-60, 125-126, 135-136
--"Number Four": [13] 53
--"Overbreak": [13] 65-66
--Painted Turtle: [28] 62, 113-119, 126-128
--paintings: [28] 49-56, 65-75
--Reflex and Bone Structure: [12] 33-37; [13] 40-45; [17] 120-123; [28] 60-61
--"Resurrection": [13] 54-55
--"The Slave Trade": [33] 209-229
--Some Observations of a Stranger at Zuni: [28] 110-114, 118-119
--Such Was the Season: [28] 62, 72-73, 89-94, 125-126, 128-130
--Symptoms & Madness: [13] 68-69
--The Syncopated Cakewalk: [13] 69, 73-74
--"Ten Pecan Pies": [13] 55-56
--"The Vase and the Rose": [13] 53-54

Majors, Monroe: [40] 795, 800-801, 804, 806-808
--First Steps and Nursery Rhymes: [40] 795

Malamud, Bernard: [14] 130-131

Malcolm X: [4] 18-21, 107-112; [7] 121-122; [16] 3-4; [24] 384, 387, 391, 392, 401-404; [39] 103-115, 149
--The Autobiography of Malcolm X: [4] 107-112; [7] 121-122; [24] 384, 387, 391, 392, 401-404; [39] 103-115
--"The Ballot or the Bullet": [4] 18-19

Malone, Mike: [17] 22-24

Malvin, Ellen: [40] 658, 819
--"Mistress and Slave": [40] 819-820

Mannoni, Octave: [10] 120-123
--Prospero and Caliban: [10] 120-123

Manzano, Juan Francisco: [18] 40
--The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave: [18] 40

Mark Twain: see Clemens, Samuel L.

Marrant, John: [34] 197-216; [38] 553-569; [39] 450
--A Journal of the Reverend John Marrant: [38] 555, 557-558, 565, 567-579
--A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black: [38] 554-555, 557-558, 560-562, 564-569; [39] 450

Marsalis, Wynton: [25] 441-443, 447-448

Marshall, Paule: [9] 67-76; [20] 371-392; [21] 43-60; [26] 109-117; [31] 249-267; [32] 305-315, 597-606; [34] 77-93, 357-359, 475-482; [35] 327-328; [39] 165
--Brown Girl, Brownstones: [9] 67-72, 75-76; [21] 45-51, 53-59; [32] 305-315, 597-606
--The Chosen Place, The Timeless People: [9] 73-74, 75-76; [21] 45-46, 48, 52-59; [26] 109-117; [31] 249-259
--"Da-Duh": [9] 75
--Praisesong for the Widow: [20] 371-392; [21] 45, 51-52, 55-59; [31] 259-265; [34] 77-93; [39] 165
--"Reena": [9] 75
--"Some Get Wasted": [9] 75
--Soul Clap Hands and Sing: [9] 72-73, 75-76
--"The Valley Between": [9] 75
--"To Da-Duh, in Memoriam": [34] 475-482

Martin, Herbert Woodward: [36] 350-351
--The Log of the Vigilante: [36] 350-351

Marvin X: see Jackmon, Marvin E.

Mason, Charlotte Osgood: [28] 601-613

Mason, Theodore O.: [26] 539, 542-543

Massachusetts Review: [24] 448-449

Mazrui, Ali: [22] 783-784
--The Africans: [22] 783-784

Mbembe: [12] 158; [17] 150

McCall, Nathan: [30] 486-488; [34] 41-47
--Makes Me Wanna Holler: [30] 486-488; [34] 41-47

McCauley, Robbie: [33] 577-587
--Sally's Rape: [33] 577-587

McClane, Kenneth: [23] 608-614
--Take Five: [23] 608-614

McDaniel, Hattie: [40] 249

McDowell, Deborah: [33] 716-717
--Leaving Pipe Shop: [33] 716-717

McGee, Patrick: [40] 300, 306

McHenry, Elizabeth: [40] 632, 657, 706, 732, 770

McKay, Claude: [3] 9; [5] 15-23; [7] 49-51; [10] 48-52; [11] 106; [14] 6, 92, 95-98; [19] 59; [24] 404-405; [28] 447-456; [34] 413-429; [35] 327-328; [38] 107-108, 110, 113-114, 382; [39] 97; [40] 145-147, 150-158
--Banana Bottom: [10] 48-52; [40] 147
--Banjo: [5] 15-18; [40] 152-158
--"Brownskin Blues": [5] 20
--Color Scheme: [14] 95-97
--"Cudjoe Fresh from De Lecture": [5] 21-22
--Gingertown: [5] 18-20; [40] 147
--"Highball": [5] 19
--Home to Harlem: [3] 9; [34] 413-429; [38] 107-108, 110, 113-114; [40] 151-153
--"If we must die": [39] 97
--A Long Way from Home: [7] 49; [24] 404-405
--"The Lynching": [11] 106; [19] 59; [38] 382
--"Mattie and Her Sweetman": [5] 20
--"Mulatto": [14] 97
--"Near-White": [5] 19
--"The Prince of Porto Rico": [5] 20
--"When I Pounded the Pavement": [40] 147
--"The White House": [14] 97

McKay, Nellie: [40] 5-66

McKinney's Cotton Pickers: [20] 186

McKnight, Reginald: [35] 427-437; [37] 172-173
--He Sleeps: [37] 172-173

McMillan, Terry: [34] 329-346

McNeil, Claudia: [39] 287-288

McShann, Jay: [25] 645

Meltzer, David: [12] 8-9

Melville, Herman: [10] 133; [16] 4, 5; [27] 646-647; [33] 639-654
--Benito Cereno: [27] 646-647
--Moby-Dick: [16] 4, 5; [33] 639-654

Mencken, H. L.: [14] 92, 93, 97; [20] 341-344; [38] 589-593, 596

Meriwether, Louise: [9] 82-85; [11] 21; 494-497
--Daddy Was a Number Runner: [9] 82-85
--Fragments of the Ark: [30] 494-497
--"That Girl from Creektown": [11] 21

The Messenger: [28] 531-548

Mezzrow, Milton "Mezz": [20] 175

Micheaux, Oscar: [12] 125; [25] 351-360; [36] 156-158, 357-381; [38] 361-375
--The Betrayal (film): [12] 125
--The Conquest (film): [36] 365-376; [38] 367
--The Homesteader (film): [12] 125; [36] 365-376; [38] 361-375
--Ten Minutes to Live (film): [25] 353-360
--The Wind From Nowhere (film): [36] 365-376

Middleton, Sam: [19] 9-11

Milestone Media Inc.: [33] 25-42
--comic books: [33] 25-42

Miller, E. Ethelbert: [17] 182; [36] 507-508
--Fathering Words: [36] 507-508
--Seasons of Hunger/Cry of Rain: [17] 182

Miller, Glenn: [20] 189

Miller, Warren: [9] 3, 11-16
--The Cool World: [9] 11-12, 14-16
--The Siege of Harlem: [9] 12-16

Millican, Arthenia Bates: [27] 25-29
--"My Last Affair": [27] 26-27

Million Man March: [39] 231-232, 234

Milner, Ron: [8] 218; [25] 79-80
--Don't Get God Started: [25] 79-80
--The Monster: [8] 218

Milton, John: [40] 210, 213-215
--Paradise Lost: [40] 207, 213-214

Mingus, Charles: [20] 175, 199; [25] 645

Minkins, Shadrack: [33] 525-526

Mirsky, Mark: [18] 164

"Miss Kitty and Chester" (tale): [3] 85-86

Mitchell, Dwike: [20] 186

Mitchell, Joseph: [33] 662-664
--Son-Boy: [33] 662-664

Mitchell, Loften: [17] 70
--Bubbling Brown Sugar: [17] 70

Mitchell, Margaret: [40] 249
--Gone with the Wind: [40] 249

Monk, Thelonious: [25] 573-574, 576, 645; [29] 259-268; [31] 55-59
--"Blue Monk": [29] 259-268

Montgomery, Eurreal "Little Brother": [20] 175

Montgomery, Wes: [25] 646

Moody, Anne: [24] 390-391; [27] 12-13
--Coming of Age in Mississippi: [24] 390-391; [27] 12-13

Moore, Lenard D.: [19] 133-134; [28] 681-682; [30] 145-147
--Forever Home: [30] 145-147
--The Open Eye: [19] 133-134

Mordecai, Benjamin: [39] 296-298

Morgan, Norma: [19] 34-35

Morganfield, McKinley: [20] 186, 199

Morton, Ferdinand "Jelly Roll": [20] 175-176, 186, 199; [25] 646

Mosley, Walter: [31] 281-294; [35] 103-116; [38] 240-253, 489-491, 493-497
--Black Betty: [31] 281-294
--Devil in a Blue Dress: [31] 281-294; [35] 103-116
--A Red Death: [31] 281-294; [38] 489-491, 493-497
--RL's Dream: [38] 240-253
--White Butterfly: [31] 281-294

Motley, Archibald, Jr.: [31] 224-225

Motley, Willard: [3] 18-21; [6] 31-38; [8] 248-251; [9] 3-10; [10] 95-99; [11] 56-61; [14] 82-85
--Adventure: [6] 35-38
--"The Beautiful Boy": [9] 5
--"Bedroom Scene": [9] 8
--"The Beer Drinkers": [9] 10
--"The Boy Grows Up": [9] 5
--"Boy Meets Boy": [9] 6
--"The Concert": [9] 8
--"Father Burnett's Victory": [9] 9
--"First Shower": [9] 5
--"How the Road Was Built": [9] 5-6
--Knock on Any Door: [3] 21; [8] 248-251; [9] 3-6
--"Lawyer Man, Doctor Man": [9] 6
--Let No Man Write My Epitaph: [3] 20-21; [11] 56-61
--Let Noon Be Fair: [10] 95-99
--"McLean": [9] 6-7
--"Needles": [9] 9
--"Nino de la Noche": [9] 7
--"One of the Family": [9] 6
--"Street Walker": [9] 9-10
--"V-Female": [9] 8-9
--"Weasel Takes a Woman": [9] 7-8

Motts, Robert T.: [16] 136-138

Muddy Waters: see Morganfield, McKinley

Mullen, Harryette: [34] 701-707; [36] 697-699
--Sleeping with the Dictionary: [36] 697-699

Murdoch, James E.: [18] 117-118

Murphy, Turk: [20] 176

Murray, Albert: [25] 453-456, 458-461; [27] 287-295; [33] 168-170; [34] 547-548
--The Blue Devils of Nada: [33] 168-170
--The Omni-Americans: [27] 287-288
--South to a Very Old Place: [27] 288-290
--The Spyglass Tree: [27] 294-295
--Stomping the Blues: [25] 453-456, 458-461
--Train Whistle Guitar: [27] 290-294

Murray, Pauli: [24] 315-333; [38] 32
--Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family: [24] 315-322, 328-330; [38] 32
--Song in a Weary Throat: [24] 315-317, 322-328, 330-333

Myers, Hannah: [40] 820
--"To Lilia in Heaven": [40] 820

Myers, Walter Dean: [32] 125-138
--Somewhere in the Darkness: [32] 130-138

Myrdal, Gunnar: [40] 534, 536-537
--An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy: [40] 534, 536-537, 539