Organization Chicago Defender

Authors Guild

Dramatists Guild

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers

National Institute of Arts and Letters

PEN

Omega Psi Phi

Association for the Study of African American Life and History (assistant to Carter Woodson)

The Skyloft Players (founder)

John Reed Club

League of Struggle for Negro Rights

American Peace Mobilization

Negro Associated Press

Louisville Defender

Washington bureau of the Associated Negro Press (chief)

President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity (education consultant, 1961)

President's Commission on Youth Opportunity (associate editor, 1967 to 1970)

Lyndon B. Johnson's campaign for the Democratic nomination