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...embarrassed management of the hotel had been chiefly guilty of spineless judgment. The hotel had never before drawn a color line. In the past such notable Negroes as Singer Marian Anderson and Actor Paul Robeson have lodged and dined in public there...
AFRICAN JOURNEY - Eslanda Goode Robeson - John...
...dear," said the anthropology professors at London University to Eslanda Robeson, leftist wife of Singer Paul Robeson. She had insisted that she possessed inborn understanding of the primitive mind. "You can't possibly know the primitive mind," they said. "You see, you are European." "What d'you mean I'm European?" snapped Eslanda; "I'm Negro . , . I'm African . . . I'm what you call primitive." "You're not primitive, my dear," said the dons, "you're educated and cultured, like us." Indignant, Eslanda decided to visit Africa...
...discuss "the all-important subject of Native affairs," recognized her British callers as " 'Deep South' white folks . . . only more so." In Cape Town it was a relief to hear the white telephone operator say: "We hope you both have a pleasant visit, and we hope Mr. Robeson comes out soon." She took them to be "the voice of the little people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations," were ''far more politically aware than my fellow Negroes in America." Eslanda "blushed with shame" when she recalled...
...Western Reserve's graduate faculty began thinking of a program in contemporary U.S. culture several years ago, finally got it going last spring. Students may suggest any topic they like, do their own investigating. Leslie Collins spent two weeks each (mostly on the road) with Dancer Dunham, Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson...