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Protesting racial segregation

    Black and white photo. Paul Robeson shown marching in front of the theater. Like others in the demonstration, he carries a protest sign hung from his shoulders. His sign reads FORDS DISCRIMINATES AGAINST AMERICAN CITIZENS. Robeson appears behind a woman in an oval hat carrying a sign protesting racial segregation at Fords Theater; he wears a dark suit and a fedora.

    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,

    1948
    Copyright
    Undetermined as reviewed by NYPL
    Attribution/Credit

    Paul Robeson Photo Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs & Prints Division, New York Public Library. "Alphaeus Hunton with his wife, Dorothy, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. Du Bois," accessed from New York Public Library Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07dba650-c5f2-012f-73a5-58d385a7bc34, 15 January 2022.