PRIX & DISTINCTIONS
1945: Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Trust Award.
1948: Rosenwald Foundation Fellowship.
1954: Guggenheim Fellowship.
1956: Partisan Review Fellowship. National Institute of Arts and Letters Award.
1958: Ford Foundation Fellowship.
1962: National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award.
1963: George Polk Award.
1964: The Foreign Drama Critics Award. Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree, University of British Columbia.
1976: Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree, Morehouse College.
1986: La Légion D'Honneur, la plus haute distinction française remise par le Président François Mitterand.
1976: Conférencier d'Honneur à la journée contre la Racisme à l'Unesco.
1986: A titre posthume Premier Prix de l'Amité France-Etats-Unis.
2004: Le service postal américain émet un timbre honorant l'écrivain
2011: Inducted into the Poet Corner of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine of New York
MEMBERSHIPS:
- Congress of Racial Equality.
- National Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy.
- Actor's Studio.
- National Institute of Arts and Letters.
