Eslanda Quotes

“She was anxious to monitor the political rumblings back home in the United States.28 A new Black leadership was emerging there and changing the social, cultural, and political landscape.”
― Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

“former Confederate leaders had begun to regain political power in the South, staging targeted and effective misinformation campaigns to unseat progressive Blacks like Francis who had managed to secure positions of influence during Reconstruction.”
― Barbara Ransby, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson