 Eslanda Goode was born in Brooklyn, New York in December 1896. She married Paul Robeson in 1921 but continued her studies and, after graduating from the University of Columbia in 1923, became the first African American analytical chemist at Columbia Medical Centre. Soon after she attended the London School of Economics and later earned a doctorate in Anthropology from Hartford Seminary. Like her husband, Eslanda Robeson was committed to fighting for social justice for black people. In 1951, she was one of three protesters who disrupted the United Nations post-war conference on genocide. In 1958, as one of the few women delegates, she attended the All-African Peoples Conference in the newly independent Ghana. She appeared in two films alongside her husband, the experimental Borderline (d. Kenneth Macpherson, 1930) and Big Fella (d. J. Elder Wills, 1937), and also published two books: the biography Paul Robeson, Negro (1930) and African Journey (1945). Ann Ogidi
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