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Eslanda Robeson


She was born into trouble, the illegitimate niece of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo, the appointee of Herbert Hoover who shocked the nation by writing the majority opinions that upheld the Roosevelt New Deal's social legislation.

That family relationship meant Eslanda was half Jewish. She called herself, openly and defiantly, Eslanda Cardozo Goode. Defiantly, because her other half was black. Although you couldn't tell it. Eslanda -- Essie, as she preferred to be known -- could and did, when necessity demanded, pass for a white woman

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