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Most anti-miscegenation laws are aimed at preserving the "racial integrity" of the "white race," but North Carolina provides that Cheroker Indians of Robeson County may not intermarry with Negroes. The law neglects to state whether it is the Negroes or the Cherokees who are being protected...
DuBois went back to work for the NAACP in 1944, and became the group's consultant to the United Nations. At that time Paul Robeson was Chairman of the Council on American Affairs and Dubois became associated with this group. But in 1946 the Cold War began and in 1947 the Justice Department issued a list of "subversive" organizations; it included the Council in its witch-hunt. DuBois' refusal to eschew either his views or his associations led to his swift dismissal from the NAACP...
...British press insisted darkly that he had been "smuggled" out of the country to keep him from recanting his oft-professed love for Communism. One thing was sure: Actor-Singer Paul Robeson, 65, had disappeared into East Germany for what was called "a medical examination and a stay in a rest home." Mysteriously ill for the past two years, he has been protected from the press by his permanently left-leaning wife Eslanda, who even fended off a persistent reporter who flew with them to Germany by threatening him with judo. Finally, from East Germany came a statement attributed...
They did Othello together with Negro Actor Paul Robeson. Traveling from city to city, the Ferrers decided to stay in no hotel that would refuse Robeson. They were all quite close. And as Robeson veered more and more loudly to the left and Moscow, this closeness got the Ferrers into trouble. In due course they were called to Washington to explain their political beliefs. Ferrer, who had just won an Oscar for Cyrano, denied any leftist leanings and was not blacklisted. Uta was dismissed without being heard at all. She ended up on TV and Hollywood blacklists nonetheless...
...audience all but rubs out the lion's roar from the zoo next door. Performances are uniformly first-rate, from Albert Quinton's dolphin-eyed, full-fathomed Bottom to giant Negro Actor James Earl Jones's Oberon, who as the fairy king somehow suggests Paul Robeson on point. Joel Friedman's direction finds constant humor in the play's profusion of rhymes, which, under less talented control, often turn into a parade of stilts. A Midsummer Night's Dream emphasizes what many East Coast Shakespeareans have long been saying: the best summer Shakespeare...