Hennig Cohen papers, 1946-1993.

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Hennig Cohen papers, 1946-1993.

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Consisting of printed program for the Southern Negro Youth Congress Cultural Festival, which included a performance by Paul Robeson, held at the Township Auditorium, Columbia, S.C., 19 Oct. 1946; and letter of transmittal, 26 June 1993, noting that Cohen attended the event which he described as "essentially an attempt to organize a leftist supported movement on behalf of the political and social welfare of southern blacks. The times were not auspicious." Cohen, who attended mainly to hear Robeson and author Howard Fast, noted that "several of the blacklisted Hollywood producers and directors" were there and "made a big thing of announcing their plans to make a movie of Howard Fast's Freedom Road, based on Robert Smalls, with Robeson as the star. As far as I know nothing came of it either."

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Smalls, Robert, 1839-1915

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Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled encl...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Southern Negro Youth Congress Cultural Festival (1946 : Columbia, S.C.)

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Township Auditorium (Columbia, S.C.)

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Fast, Howard, 1914-2003

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Popular and prolific novelist Howard Fast was born in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants, and he worked odd jobs as a youth, crediting his love of reading to a job as a page at the New York Public Library. He published his first novel at eighteen, and found early success writing adventures set in America's past. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, writing for the radio program Voice of America. A Communist from about 1944-1956, Fast appeared before the H...

Cohen, Hennig

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Historian and writer. From the description of Papers, 1960-1973. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32452445 Hennig Cohen, born in Darlington, S.C. on August 26, 1919, received a B.A. in 1941 and an M.A. in 1948 from the University of South Carolina and his Ph.D from Tulane University, 1951. Dr. Cohen taught in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania and served as executive secretary and then president of the American Melville Society. ...