Observer, Nov 5, 1972. p.13

‘Black was Beautiful’, John Crosby

Crosby writing about Black baseball star Jackie Robinson:

‘He was in fact part of an increasingly prosperous black middle-class in America that Europeans, brought up on the mythology of JB, hardly know exists. Jackie Robinson was by no means a typical American, but he was far more typical than JB, who lives in Europe and hob nobs largely with white Europeans. NP: Like many black militants, Baldwin lives in a fantasy world far removed from the real black world of jobs and housing…’