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Tag: black activism

Biography, Women's History

Black History Month: Eslanda Goode Robeson

WHN / October 30, 2011

Background As Carol Boyce Davies has noted, black women have been consistently written out of accounts of black international radicalism. The life and work of Eslanda Goode Robeson is a case in point. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1896, Eslanda…

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