Black critics, meanwhile, accused him of betraying the race, and specifically Black women. It was a big enough issue that Ebony ran an article with the opinions of Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Roy Wilkins, head of the NAACP, among others. “We didn’t marry to prove a social point,” wrote Belafonte. “We did it for love.”
