Paul and Eslanda Robeson collection, 1907-1988.

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Paul and Eslanda Robeson collection, 1907-1988.

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Writings by and about the African American actor, scholar, and political activist Paul Robeson, awards and tributes, correspondence, photographs, typescripts and galley proofs for Paul Robeson: the Great Forerunner, published by Freedomways in 1977, Russian letters to Robeson from schoolchildren in the Soviet Union (with English translations), documents relating to the Robeson archives in Berlin and exhibitions about Robeson held at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, posters, recordings, and films; together with material related to Eslanda Goode Robeson (1896-1965), chemist, anthropologist, and writer.

6 linear ft.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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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 ...

Ad Hoc Committee to Memorialize Paul Robeson (Washington, D.C.)

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Cardozo, William W.

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Akademie der Künste (Berlin, Germany)

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Nicholas, Elizabeth Cardozo

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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. ...