Session #91 · 1969–71

Speech #910259109

Mr. Speaker. I rise today to register a protest in the name of all black Americans over the denial of a nonimmigrant visa to Mrs. Shirley Graham DuBois by the State Department. The daughter of a Methodist minister. Mrs. DuBois was born in Indiana and attended schools in Spokane. Wash.. and at the Sorbonne. where she studied music. In the 1930s after returning to the States. Mrs. DuBois taught music at the Morgan College. earned degrees at Oberlin. and worked with theater groups in Chicago and at Yale. From 1941 to 1943. she served as a USO director. Writing in the early 1930s.
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