Word: robeson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the prominent Negroes who have taken white spouses have come from the laissez-faire world of show business: Lena Home, Pearl Bailey, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. Some civil rights activists, such as James Farmer, formerly chief of CORE, and the late Walter White, the N.A.A.C.P.'s longtime executive secretary, went the same route. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke has an Italian wife, but the wedding was long ago and far away from public view; by the time it became noteworthy, Negro Brooke, rather than his Caucasian spouse, had led the family...
...four portraits on exhibit. She clearly has solid technical competence, but her work shows an excessively smooth slickness that I find somewhat distasteful. Her subjects are Mary McLeod Bethune (1876-1955), celebrated educator and social worker; Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), the developer of blood plasma; Paul Robeson in his role as Othello; and Thurgood Marshall, who has just been nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Robeson Lutheran Church...
Died. Eslanda Goode Robeson, 69, wife and biographer of Baritone Paul Robeson, Negro (1930), a fellow traveler who joined Robeson on his trips to Communist countries in the '30s and '40s and then into self-exile in Britain in 1958, during which Paul became ill and reportedly disillusioned with Communism, though she stiffly maintained, on their return to the U.S. for good in 1963, that "he still thinks Communism is terrific and he always will"; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...speakers often pay tribute to the "great American working class." No one is allowed to forget that May I was chosen as International Labor Day to commemorate a strike in Chicago. Similarly, every Chinese school child knows and honors the birthdays of two Americans, Paul Robeson and W.E.B DuBois...