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Eslanda Goode Robeson
American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist (c.1895–1965)
Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an American anthropologist, author, actress, and civil rights activist.
She was the wife and business manager of performer Paul Robeson.[1]
Biography
Early years and marriage
Eslanda Cardozo Goode was born in Washington, D.C., on December 15, 1895.[2] Her maternal great-grandparents were Isaac Nunez Cardozo, a Sephardic Jew whose family was expelled from Spain in the 17th century,[3] and Lydia Weston, who was of partial African descent and had been enslaved and then manumitted in 1826 by Plowden Weston in Charleston, South Carolina.
Their son, Francis Lewis Cardozo, was the first black Secretary of State of South Carolina, and he married Catherine Romena Howell, daughter of an Englishwoman and a man of color from the West Indies. Their daughter, Eslan