PAUL ROBESON NOT WANTED
AMERICAN TELEVISION PROGRAMME NEW YORK, March 13. Paul Robcsop, the negro singer, will not appear on Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt’s television programme as a result of a flood of protests to-day. The switchboard of the National Broadcasting Company was swamped with telephone calls. Many persons threatened to picket the studios. It had been announced that Robeson, on March 19, would participate in a discussion on the position of negroes in American political life. The programme was cancelled. Robeson, an outspoken Russian sympathiser, was the central figure in an outbreak of violence at a concert at Peekskill, New York, last year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 128, 15 March 1950, Page 3
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