I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
Jane Addams, Activist (1860) |
Bruno Bauer, Theologian (1809) |
Henry Seidel Canby, Critic (1878) |
John Dalton, Scientist (1766) |
Robyn Davidson, Writer (1950) |
Carly Fiorina, Businesswoman (1954) |
Naveen Jain, Businessman (1959) |
William R. Keating, Politician (1952) |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Diplomat (1888) |
Marquis De Lafayette, Revolutionary (1757) |
Philip James Bailey, Poet (1902) |
Hanns Eisler, Composer (1962) |
Edmund Gibson, Judge (1748) |
Herbert Kaufman, Writer (1947) |
Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist (2007) |