Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1998.

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Paul Robeson Collection, 1916-1998.

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The Paul Robeson Collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, books, articles, clippings, reviews, tributes, photographs, and sound recordings relating to Robeson's activities as a scholar, athlete, singer, actor, and political activist. Assembled over the years by the Rutgers University Archives staff and the Office of Alumni Relations, the collection contains a bibliography of the Schomburg Collection, notes and correspondence in Robeson's hand, photographs and reviews of performances, and many articles concerning Robeson's athletic and scholarly career at Rutgers College. Included is a copy of Robeson's senior thesis "The 14th Amemdment: The Sleeping Giant of the American Constitution." Other articles concern his efforts on behalf of the civil rights movement and his blacklisting in the 1940's and 1950's. Much of the correspondence is about Robeson, with only a few items from Robeson himself. A number of letters are from his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson. The newspaper clippings in Series I are taken from five scrapbooks, 1916-1976. The recordings are phonograph records from the late 1930's; included are "Sometimes I Feel a Motherless Child" and "Ol' Man River." The final series contains copies of surveillance documents created and compiled by the Department of State "relating to the Communist-oriented activities of Paul Robeson. . . ", 1946-1962.

4 cubic ft.(13 manuscript boxes)

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Rutgers University

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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965

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1896 Dec.15 Born to John Goode and Eslanda Cardozo Goode in Washington, D.C., the third of three children; brothers John and Frank. Maternal grandfather was Francis Lewis Cardozo, who served as South Carolina's Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury during Reconstruction Days. 1912 Graduated from Urbana High School, Urbana, Illinois. ...