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From: Jet
Date: 19990712
Author:Booker, Simeon

Confidential: The first Black diplomat to speak the language and be assigned to Soviet matters William B. Davis felt sad when few non-Whites showed up at the sold-out Washington reception or NYC Carnegie Hall concert to honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin, Russia's famed Black poet. Davis, now retired, says the absence of Blacks showed the vast gap between the minorities of the two countries and how little is known of the man who earned a reputation for freedom fighting long before Harriet Tubman ... Edging up in the nation's capital, South African ...

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