Paul Robeson

Robeson, Paul - rōbˈsən, 1898–1976, American actor and bass singer, b. Princeton, N.J. The son of a runaway slave who became a minister, Robeson graduated first from Rutgers (1919), where he was an All-American football player, and then from Columbia Univ. law school (1923). He began his acting career in 1924 with the Provincetown Players. With a resonant voice and the Read More...

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The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939
by Paul Robeson Jr. 384 pgs.

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The long-awaited, untold, inside story of the rise of the legendary actor, singer, scholar, and activist. The first volume of this major biography breaks new ground. The greatest scholar-athlete-performing artist in U.S. history, Paul Robeson was one of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century. Now his son, Paul Robeson Jr., traces the dramatic arc of his rise to fame, painting a definitive picture of Paul Robeson's formative years. His father was an escaped slave; his mother, a descendent of freedmen; and his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Eslanda Cardozo Goode. With a law degree from Columbia University; a professional football career; title roles in Eugene O'Neill's plays and in Shakespeare's Othello; and a concert career in America and Europe, Robeson dominated his era. This unprecedented biography reveals the depth of Robeson's cultural scholarship, explores the contradictions he bridged in his personal and political life, and describes his emergence as a symbol of the anticolonial and antifascist struggles. Filled with previously unpublished photographs and source materials from the private diaries and letters of Paul and Eslanda Robeson, this is the epic story of a forerunner who now stands as one of America's greatest heroes.

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Acknowledgments

Preface: Paul Robeson: “i Am Myself”

I: Motherless Child (1898–1919)

1: The Preacher's Son (1898–1915)

2: In His Glory: Robeson of Rutgers (1915–1919)

II: Destiny and Decision (1919–1926)

3: Essie (1919–1921)

4: A Taste of Theater (1922)

5: The Performer Triumphs (1923–1924)

6: Seeker of Grace (1925–1926)

III: From Performer to Artist (1926–1932)

7: [Ol' Man River] (1926–1928)

8: [The Power to Create Beauty] (1928–1929)

9: To Feed His Soul (1930)

10: Troubled Spirit (1930–1931)

11: Giver of Grace (1931–1932)

IV: Tribune of a Culture (1933–1936)

12: Film and the Politics of Culture (1933–1934)

13: Test Run: London–moscow–hollywood (1934–1935)

14: White Film, Black Culture (1936)

V: To Be a Prophet (1936–1939)

15: Russia's Sun; Stalin's Shadow (1936–1937)

16: Spain's Ramparts: “the Artist Must Elect” (1938)

17: A Home in That Rock (1938–1939)

Notes

Index
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Paul Robeson, the Great Forerunner
by Freedomways. 396 pgs.

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Compiled by the editors of Freedomways. Tributes to Robeson in prose and poetry by his contemporaries. Selections from Robeson's own writings. Foreword to this edition by Ernest Kaiser. Updated bibliography.

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Part I: The Great Forerunner

Paul Robeson: Black Warrior

Paul Robeson: His Political Legacy to the Twentieth-Century Gladiator by Harry Edwards

Paul Robeson on the English Stage

The Cultural Philosophy of Paul Robeson

The Culture of the Negro

Time to Break the Silence Surrounding Paul Robeson?

Paul Robeson in Film: an Iconoclast's Quest for a Role

Paul Robeson's Mission in Music

Paul Robeson: Great Friend of the Soviet People

Our Beloved Pauli

American Negroes in the War

A Rock in a Weary Lan': Paul Robeson's Leadership and "The Movement" in the Decade Before Montgomery

Paul Robeson at Peekskill

Paul Robeson's Impact on History

Robeson's Here I Stand: the Book They Could Not Ban

The Power of Negro Action: From Here I Stand

A Distant Image: Paul Robeson and Rutgers' Students Today

Paul Robeson: the Artist as Activist and Social Thinker

The Paul Robeson Archives: Legacy of Courage by Harriet Jackson Sgarupa

Epilogue "We'Re Moving!"

Part II: Selections from Robeson's Writings and Speeches

The Battleground is Here

Playing Catch-Up

Ho Chi Minh is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China

Paul Robeson

For Paul Robeson

The Lion in Daniel's Den: (for Paul Robeson, Sr.)

To Paul Robeson

Suite of the Singing Mountain: for Paul Robeson (a Blues/Jazz Cantata)

Ode to Paul Robeson

To Paul Robeson

Until They Have Stopped: (dedicated to Paul Robeson, Sr.)

Tributes in Prose

By Edward J. Bloustein

By Brigitte Bogelsack

By Lloyd L. Brown

By Robert S. Browne

By Margaret Burroughs

By Alice Childress

By John Conyers

By George W. Crockett

By Tom Dent

By Shirley Graham Du Bois

By Dick Gregory

By J. Clinton Hoggard

By Lena Horne

By Mbiyu Koinange

By John Lewis

By George B. Murphy, Jr.

By Jawaharlal Nehru

By William L. Patterson

By Thelma Dale Perkins

By Paul Robeson, Jr.

By Pete Seeger

By Hope R. Stevens

By Afro-American (newspaper)

Paul Robeson Chronology

A Bibliography by and About Paul Robeson

New Supplementary Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Second Supplementary Bibliography

Index
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The Young Paul Robeson: On My Journey Now
by Lloyd L. Brown. 188 pgs.

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Lloyd L. Brown, close friend of Paul Robeson for over 25 years, has now produced an illuminating portrait of this remarkable Afro-American, drawing on much original material and providing a narrative of his life from Princetown to Harlem.

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Contents

Photographs

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part One: I Got a Home In-a That Rock

1: An African American

2: William Robeson A Star to Follow

3: Princeton: The Youth Up North

4: Happy Black Boy

Part Two: Li'l David

5: High School: The Fledgling Hero

6: Rutgers 1: A Long Ways from Home

7: Rutgers 2: Othello of Battle""

8: Rutgers 3: This Noble Son""

9: Rutgers 4: To Help the Race""

10: Harlem, Morningside Heights, and Points West

11: On My Journey Now

Afterword

Appendix A: The Proud Bustills

Appendix B: Last Interview

Notes

About the Book and Author

Index
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Freedomways Reader: Prophets in Their Own Country (Chap. 2 "The Battleground Is Here" by Paul Robeson and Chap. 25 "Selected Speeches and Writings on Peace" by Paul Robeson)
by Esther Cooper Jackson, Constance Pohl. 382 pgs.

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Photos

Foreword

Introduction

Part One: Origins of Freedomways

1: Behold the Land, No. 1, 1964

2: The Battleground Is Here, No. 1, 1971

3: Southern Youth's Proud Heritage, No. 1, 1964

4: Memoirs of A Birmingham Coal Miner, No. 1, 1964

5: "Not New Ground, But Rights Once Dearly Won," No. 1, 1962

6: Honoring Dr. Du Bois, No. 2, 1968

7: Ode to Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1976

Part Two: Reports from the Front Lines: Segregation in the South

8: The United States and The Negro, No. 1, 1961

9: A Freedom Rider Speaks His Mind, No. 2, 1961

10: What Price Prejudice? On the Economics of Discrimination, No. 3, 1962

11: The Southern Youth Movement, No. 3, 1962

12: Nonviolence: An Interpretation, No. 1, 1963

13: Lorraine Hansberry at The Summit, No. 4, 1979

14: "We'Re Moving!" No. 1, 1971

15: Birmingham Shall Be Free Some Day, No. 1, 1964

16: Tremor in the Iceberg: The Mississippi Summer Project, No. 2, 1965

17: The Freedom Schools: Concept and Organization, No. 2, 1965

18: Life in Mississippi: An Interview with Fannie Lou Hamer, No. 2, 1965

19: The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi, No. 2, 1966

Part Three: International Solidarity

20: The American Negro and The Darker World, No. 3, 1968

21: Address to the United Nations, No. 1, 1961

22: What Happened in Ghana? The Inside Story, No. 3, 1966

23: Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator, No. 3, 1972

24: Socialism Is Not Racialism, No. 2, 1970

25: Selected Speeches and Writings on Peace, No. 1, 1971

26: The Giant Stirs, No. 1, 1966

27: The Freedom Movement and the War in VIetnam, No. 4, 1965

28: A Time to Break Silence, No. 2, 1967

29: Muhammad Ali: The Measure of A Man, No. 2, 1967

30: The Gi Movement Vs. The War: A Symposium, No. 4, 1970

31: Three African Freedom Movements, No. 1, 1962

32: The African - American Manifesto on Southern Africa, No. 4, 1976

33: South Africa and the Usa, No. 4, 1976

34: Northern Ireland Through Black Eyes, No. 1, 1982

Part Four: Moving North

35: Anti-Semitism and Black Power, No. 1, 1967

36: Address to Labor: Who Built this Land? No. 1, 1971

37: Three Challenges to Organized Labor, No. 4, 1972

39: School Desegregation: Seeking New VIctories Among the Ashes, No. 1, 1977

40: The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action: Some Implications for the Future, No. 1, 1978

41: Negro Women in Freedom'S Battles, No. 4, 1967

42: Racism and Contemporary Literature on Rape, No. 1, 1976

References

43: Biology and Gender: False Theories about Women and Blacks, No. 1, 1977

44: Bangs and Whimpers: Black Youth and the Courts, No. 3, 1975

45: Pages from the Life of a Black Prisoner, No. 4, 1971

46: The Death Penalty: Continuing Threat to America's Poor, No. 1, 1971

Part Five: Pioneers of Black Studies

47: Conference of Encyclopedia Africana, No. 4, 1963

48: Negroes in the American Revolution, No. 2, 1961

49: Black/Indian Origins Of The Fight for Democracy, No. 2, 1984

50: A Review of the Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, No. 1, 1969

Part Six: Culture and the Cause of Black Freedom

51: The Negro Woman in American Literature, No. 1, 1966

52: Paul Robeson, No. 1, 1971

53: Prologue, No. 1, 1972

54: Rites of Passage, No. 3, 1970

55: The Lion in Daniel's Den, No. 1, 1971

56: For Beautiful Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader, No. 2, 1971

57: Rock Eagle, No.4, 1971

58: Facing the Way, No. 4, 1975

59: The Abduction of Saints, No. 4, 1975

60: My Early Days in Harlem, No. 3, 1963

61: Langston Hughes: He Spoke Of Rivers, No. 2, 1968

62: An Old Woman Remembers, No. 3, 1963

63: A Letter from Brooklyn, No. 3, 1964

64: Poems of Agostinho Neto, No. 1, 1976

65: Eventide, Kumasi, No. 2, 1970

66: We Are of the Same Sidewalks, No. 3, 1980

67: Lorraine Hansberry: On Time! No. 4, 1979

68: The Once and Future VIsion of Lorraine Hansberry, No. 4, 1979

69: At the Emmy Time! No. 1, 1980

70: The Welcome Table: A Short Story, No. 3, 1970

71: The First Day (A Fable After Brown): A Short Story, No. 4, 1974

72: A Review of God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene, No. 2, 1978

73: Jazz No. 2, 1962

74: Black Women Singers-Artists, No. 1, 1966

75: Will Jazz Survive? Thoughts on the State of the Great American Art, No. 4, 1983

76: Martin Luther King: A Personal Tribute, No. 1, 1972

Afterword
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Paul Robeson and the Black Press: The 1950 Passport Controversy, in The Journal of African American History
by Barbara J. Beeching. 16 pgs.

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Paul Robeson and the black press: the 1950 passport controversy
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Performing Black-Jewish Symbiosis: The "Hassidic Chant" of Paul Robeson, in American Jewish History
by Jonathan Karp. 29 pgs.

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Performing Black-Jewish Symbiosis: the "Hassidic Chant" of Paul Robeson
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Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors (Information on Paul Robeson in Chap. 7 "Broadway and Beyond")
by Errol Hill. 216 pgs.

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Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword By John Houseman

Introduction: A Personal Memoir

1: Shakespeare and the Black Actor

2: Involuntary Exiles

3: No Place like Home

4: From Artist to Activist

5: Challenge of a New Century

6: Novelty Shakespeare

7: Broadway and Beyond

8: How Relevant is Race?

9: Toward the Future

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Photo Credits
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Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 ("Paul Leroy Robeson" begins on p. 159)
by Hakim Adi, Marika Sherwood. 211 pgs.

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Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and DusÃ© Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism.

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Preface

Dusé Mohamed Ali

Further Reading

Ahmed Ben Bella

Edward Wilmot Blyden

Main Publications

Amilcar Lopes Cabral

Aimé Césaire

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

Constance Cummings-John

Further Reading

Martin Robinson Delany

Further Reading

Cheikh Anta Diop

Main Publications

Frederick Douglass

W.E.B. Du Bois

Further Reading

Olaudah Equiano

Main Publications

Nathaniel Akinremi Fadipe

Frantz Fanon

Amy Ashwood Garvey

Marcus Garvey

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford

Main Publications

James Africanus Beale Horton

W. Alphaeus Hunton

C.L.R. James

Main Publications Not Cited in the Text (London Editions)

Claudia Jones

Martin Luther King Jr

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Patrice Émery Lumumba

Main Publications

Ras T. Makonnen

Malcolm X

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Further Reading

Harold Moody

Jamal Abd Al-Nasir [Nasser]

Further Reading

Francis Nwia Kofi Kwame Nkrumah

Julius Kambarage Nyerere

George Padmore

Paul Leroy Robeson

Walter Rodney

Further Reading

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Further Reading

Ladipo Felix Solanke

Sékou Ahmed Touré

I.T.A. Wallace-Johnson

Further Reading

Eric Williams

Henry Sylvester Williams

Index
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Dictionary of the Black Theatre: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Selected Harlem Theatre
by Allen Woll. 362 pgs.

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Documentation for approximately three hundred shows is provided in this unique reference book. The title of each show is followed by its theatre, opening date, number of performances, complete list of creative personnel, cast credits, and, where appropriate, a list of the show's songs. Biographical entries are also included.

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PREFACE

NOTES

INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

Part 1: THE SHOWS

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Part II: PERSONALITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

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Appendix I: A CHRONOLOGY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

Appendix II: A DISCOGRAPHY OF THE BLACK THEATRE

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

NAME INDEX

PLAY AND FILM INDEX

SONG INDEX

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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