[AWH – So a Felix Idubor statue called “The Beggar” may be in the archives of W. E. B. Du Bois – pictured. He lived for another five years after getting this letter. Yale has his archives, but I couldn’t get the online version to work.]
Source: Africa Commons
Quote: “I hope that my little token of remembrance (an African carving from Felix Idubor of Nigeria) arrives in good time. The artist wrote me that it had been sent to you, some time ago. He calls it “The Beggar”; it is a type one often sees in the street, in West Africa.”
Background
Mary-Louise Hooper was a wealthy American heiress and activist in the Civil Rights Movement and anti-apartheid movement.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
