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This morning's accidental stumble on a fascinating history: I was searching Getty images for something else, but within the results I found an image whose descriptor in the database is "Black Youth Attending Russian School." Huldah Clark is her name. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/huldah-clark-the-14-year-old-negro-girl-from-newark-n-j-who-news-photo/515025336
Huldah Clark's father, William, is said to have approached Khrushchev when he visited New York in 1960. An article in the English-language "USSR" magazine (1964) reports that Clark, a "worker at a dye-making plant" asked Khrushchev to give his daughter a better education than
the one that she had access to as a black child in the United States. The article says that Huldah Clark enrolled in Moscow Boarding School no. 12 in 1961. This "USSR" magazine article, written by Boris Efetov" is readily available on google books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/USSR/kBQqAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=huldah+clark&pg=RA9-PA50&printsec=frontcover
The Google Books search also turned up a 1962 article from Jet magazine, in which the Clarks are greeted by journalists when Huldah arrived home to NJ for winter break. The article comes under the title, "Huldah Clark Calls Russian Schools Better."
In the "USSR" article mentioned above, Huldah Clark tells her interviewers that she aspires to continue her studies at the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow and eventually to work as a medical doctor in Africa. The journalist notes that she speaks "fluent Russian"
Anyway, all of this was just a quick glimpse into a fascinating history I had never even heard mention of. Has anyone written about Huldah Clark and her family? What happened in her life after these press articles appeared? Did she write a memoir? Is she alive?
She was arrested in Newark, apparently, in 1964 for -- according to the NYT -- having "tried to interfere when two radio patrolmen took her brothers, Samuel, 14, and Curtis, 10, into custody for exploding fireworks." https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/25/archives/jersey-girl-going-to-school-in-russia-seized-in-newark.html?searchResultPosition=2
Thanks to the internet & http://Marxists.org , we can see p. 2 of this article of the Militant for "The Furor over Huldah Clark" (1961) https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/themilitant/1961/v25n36-oct-09-1961-mil.pdf
