Paul Robeson pamphlets and clippings, 1940-1974.

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Paul Robeson pamphlets and clippings, 1940-1974.

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The collection contains two pamphlets, two copies of a concert program, and seven sheets of photocopied newspaper clippings about Robeson. Includes "The Negro people and the Soviet Union" by Paul Robeson (New York: New Century Publishers, 1950); the text of this 15-page pamphlet is an address delivered by Robeson at a banquet sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship in New York on 10 November 1949. Also, Proceedings of the Conference on Africa--New Perspectives, April 14, 1944, with an address by Paul Robeson (52 p.). Two copies of Robeson's concert performance at The Pennsylvania State College, 9 December 1940, assisted by Clara Rockmore, thereminist; newspaper clippings, 1949-1974, cover Robeson's support of the Soviet Union, his son's marriage, the State Dept. cancellation of his passport, his wife's refusal to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) if she was a Communist, his ill health, and overviews of his life and career.

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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 ...