Witness: Black History Collection
Black in the USSR
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:09:20
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Synopsis
Robert Robinson, a Jamaican born engineer, was recruited to work in the USSR from a factory in Detroit in 1930. Having had his US citizenship revoked, he spent 43 years unable to leave the Soviet Union. Dina Newman tells his story, using BBC archive. (Photo: Robert Robinson in the 1920s. Source: BBC archive)
