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Paul Robeson joining members of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP in a picket line in front of Ford's Theater, Baltimore

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Paul Robeson (second from left) joining members of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in a picket line in front of Ford's Theater, Baltimore, to protest the theater's policy of racial segregation, in 1947. Depicted are (left to right) Mrs. Ada Jenkins, Robeson, Earl Robinson, Dr. J.E.T. Camper, Paul Kaufman, Rhoda Pearson and Dan Atwood.
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Photographs Portraits Gelatin Silver Prints
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1947
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Political Activists
  2. African American Singers
  3. African Americans
  4. Baltimore
  5. Discrimination
  6. Discrimination In Public Accommodations
  7. Maryland
  8. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  9. Pickets
  10. Robeson, Paul, 1898 1976
  11. Segregation

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