PAUL ROBESON TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST RACIAL HATREDS
New York, Jan. 27. Paul Robeson has announced that he intends to abandon the theatre and tiie concert stage during the next two years “to talk up and down the nation against race hatred and prejudice." Robeson said: Some of us will have to speak up. It seems I must raise my voice, but not by singing pretty songs. In Washington to-day,.three leading dramatists, Thornton Wilder, Donald Ogden and Steward S. N. Behrnan, added their names to 33 others who had announced they would not permit their plays to be produced in Washington's only theatre, the National, until negroes are permitted to attend.
Robert Sherwood, who was one of the leaders fighting racial discrimination, said the National Theatre should try non - discrimination for some months, and if the management’s contention should be true and business declines, he for one would willingly withdraw his objections, but if business was not affected, playwrights would expect the colour bar to be dropped.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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