ABSTRACT
Paul Breman has long held a personal interest in publishing African American poets, poets who have not readily found avenues of expression for their vision of the world in a society in large measure blissfully innocent, as Baldwin would put it, of Black reality or hostile to its inspiration. It was intriguing to learn, in view of his later interest, that Breman early on was of some service to probably the most important African American of the twentieth century, who was also, coincidentally, one of America's leading intellectuals. This present writer not long ago happened upon an obscurely published item relating briefly how Paul Breman shortly after World War II arranged a lecture in the Netherlands for the eminent Dr W. E. B. Du Bois. Characteristically, Du Bois found meaning in the incident, wryly observing that the arrangement placed the two in the proper relative elevation of lord and lady of the manor.
