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	Paul Robeson
		Robeson's inclination to aid the less fortunate and the oppressed in their fight for freedom and equality was firmly rooted in his own family history.
		Robeson's political commitments became foremost in his life as he championed causes from South African famine relief to support of an anti-lynching law; in September 1946 he was among the delegation that spoke with President Harry S Truman about anti-lynching legislation.
		Paul Robeson was truly a man who saw a commitment to the oppressed, and particularly fl people, as a much more profound calling than the accolades he received for his astonishing talents.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/paul_robeson.htm (2711 words)

	Biography of Paul Robeson
		Paul Leroy Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey.
		Robeson took a job with a law firm after graduation, but left the firm and the practice of law when a white secretary refused to take dictation from him.
		Paul Robeson used his deep baritone voice to promote fl spirituals, to share the cultures with other countries, and to support the social movements of his time.
	prcc.rutgers.edu /Robeson/biography.htm (611 words)

	“Americans Through Their Labor”: Paul Robeson’s Vision of Cultural and Economic Democracy by Dr. Mark D. Naison
		Robeson always expressed great pride inhis African ancestry, and presented the cultural legacy of the African-American people with unprecedented eloquence and power, but he felt that to deal with fl issues in isolation was to weaken their force.
		Robeson's concerts were a living embodiment of his profound belief, shared by a small number of other progressive intellectuals, that beauty derived from labor and that virtues such as courage, solidarity, compassion and endurance found their highest expressions among the lives of the common people.
		Robeson's intonation, his diction, the timber of his voice, the controlled emotion he placed into each note and his extraordinary physical presence made his audiences, especially those of working class background, feel they were in the presence of something that ennobled them and gave their lives new meaning.
	www.pipeline.com /~rgibson/paulrobeson.htm (3003 words)

	The Logicalthinker's Paul Robeson Page
		By the 1930s Robeson was active in a wide range of causes, but his radicalism led to a long period of political harassment that culminated in his fllisting during the McCarthy Era.
		Robeson's father, William Drew Robeson, was a North Carolina slave who escaped to freedom at age 15, graduated from college, and entered the ministry.
		Paul and Essie Robeson's relationship would be a rocky one, but her assertiveness and gift for organization proved vital to his career.
	www.geocities.com /logicalthinker_2000/Paulrobeson.htm (2171 words)

	Biography
		Paul Robeson was a famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world.
		Paul noted that his travels had taught him that racism was not as virulent in Europe as it was in the United States.
		Paul Robeson used his deep baritone voice to promote fl spirituals, to share the cultures of other countries, and to benefit the social movements of his time.
	www.highlands.com /robeson/bio.html (967 words)

	AFROCENTRIC VOICES--Paul Robeson Biography
		Paul Leroy Robeson was born the youngest of seven children on April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey.
		Robeson was exposed to the Negro spiritual at his father's church, and he sang them with his father and brothers at home.
		Paul Robeson was hospitalized in Philadelphia upon suffering a minor stroke in December 1975.
	www.afrovoices.com /robeson.html (1105 words)

	PAUL ROBESON, a brief biography
		Paul Robeson was a famous African-American athlete, singer, actor, and advocate for the civil rights of people around the world.
		Robeson's travels taught him that racism was not as virulent in Europe as in the U.S. At home, it was difficult to find restaurants that would serve him, theaters in New York would only seat Blacks in the upper balconies, and his performances were often surrounded with threats or outright harassment.
		Paul Robeson used his deep baritone voice to promote Black spirituals, to share the cultures of other countries, and to benefit the labor and social movements of his time.
	www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu /robeson/bio.html (914 words)

	Paul Robeson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robeson later studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
		Robeson's appearance on TV is a crude attempt to silence the outstanding spokesman for the Negro people in their fight for civil and human rights" and that our "basic democratic rights are under attack under the smoke-screen of anti-Communism." Protesters picketed NBC offices and protests arrived from numerous public figures, organizations and others.
		The Paul Robeson House in West Philadelphia, where he lived with his sister at the end of his life, is a museum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Robeson (4637 words)

	Biography: Paul Robeson
		Robeson was also a staunch supporter of the Soviet Union, and a man, later in his life, widely vilified and censored for his frankness and unyielding views on issues to which public opinion ran contrary.
		Robeson, realizing his acting range was limited both by the choice of roles available to him as a fl performer and by his own acting abilities, turned to singing full time as an outlet for his creative energies and growing social convictions.
		Robeson's passport was restored in 1958 after a Supreme Court ruling on a similar case, but it was of little consequence.
	homepage.sunrise.ch /homepage/comtex/rob3.htm (1323 words)

	The My Hero Project - Paul Robeson
		Paul was brought up to value education as much as his parents did.
		Paul Robeson attended Rutgers University (he was the third fl student in that school's history) in New Jersey, where he was an All-American football player and excelled in other sports as well.
		Robeson eventually recovered his passport and was able to tour and perform again for awhile.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=p_robeson (1064 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- Paul Robeson Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Paul Robeson was a gifted student and athlete while attending Rutgers University in New Jersey.
		Robeson performed on Broadway, and is noted for his leading roles in Othello and Eugene O'Neill's play, Emperor Jones, and his stunning rendition of the song "Ole Man River" in the musical Showboat.
		Robeson began receiving death threats from the Ku Klux Klan while campaigning for the Progressive Party candidate in the 1948 presidential election.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/civilrights/ny1.htm (531 words)

	Hangout - Paul Robeson: Entertainer and Activist
		Paul Robeson was born on April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey.
		When Robeson was young, his father lost his job as pastor and had to support the family by driving carriages.
		Robeson wanted to use his education and talents to represent his race.
	www.state.nj.us /hangout_nj/200202_robeson_p1.html (190 words)

	Paul Robeson
		Paul Robeson, the son of William Drew Robeson, a former slave, was born in Princeton, New Jersey on 9th April, 1898.
		Stotesbury sympathized with Robeson but told him that his prospects for a career in law were limited, as the company's wealthy white clients would be unlikely ever to agree to let him try a case before a judge, as they would fear it would hurt their case.
		Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Robeson in Othello in 1930.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArobeson.htm (3031 words)

	Paul Robeston: A Brief Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In addition to his athletic talents, Robeson was named a Phi Beta Kappa scholar, belonged to the Cap and Skull Honor Society, and graduated valedictorian of his class in 1919.
		Robeson worked as a law clerk in New York, but once again faced discrimination and soon left the practice because a white secretary refused to take dictation from him.
		Robeson believed in the universality of music and that by performing Negro spirituals and other cultures' folk songs, he could promote intercultural understanding.
	www.scc.rutgers.edu /njh/PaulRobeson/PRBio.htm (666 words)

	The My Hero Project - Paul Robeson
		Paul was brought up to value education as much as his parents did.
		Paul Robeson attended Rutgers University (he was the third fl student in that school's history) in New Jersey, where he was an All-American football player and excelled in other sports as well.
		Robeson eventually recovered his passport and was able to tour and perform again for awhile.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=p_robeson (1374 words)

	African Americans - Paul Robeson - (b. April 9, 1898, Princeton, N. J.; d. January 23, 1976, Philadelphia, Pa.). ...
		By the 1930s Robeson was active in a wide range of causes, but his radicalism led to a long period of political harassment that culminated in his fllisting during the McCarthy Era.
		Robeson's father, William Drew Robeson, was a North Carolina slave who escaped to freedom at age 15, graduated from college, and entered the ministry.
		Paul and Essie Robeson's relationship would be a rocky one, but her assertiveness and gift for organization proved vital to his career.
	www.africanamericans.com /PaulRobeson.htm (2149 words)

	Images - The Paul Robeson Centennial Collection
		Paul Robeson was born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey to a minister father who was also an escaped slave.
		Robeson's father installed in him from an early age a sense of pride in the fl race and a strong sense of conviction for his beliefs.
		Robeson was extremely careful of the roles he chose because he wanted to create screen images that would give strength and uplift the members of his race.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue05/reviews/robeson.htm (923 words)

	Classically Black: Paul Robeson
		It is a testament to Robeson's legacy that the current revival of Showboat uses his revised lyrics, says WILL-FM's Roger Cooper, whose Classically Black: Robeson highlights the career and life of Robeson.
		Robeson's father, an escaped slave who became a minister, taught his children that they had great dignity and value, and were inferior to no one, regardless of color or station, says Cooper.
		In college at Rutgers University, Robeson played football, was catcher for the varsity baseball team, center for the basketball team and threw the discus for the track team.
	www.will.uiuc.edu /fm/programs/classicallyblack/cbrobeson.htm (337 words)

	Online NewsHour: Remembering Paul Robeson-- April 9, 1998
		Born in Princeton on April 9, 1898, the son of an ex-slave, Paul Robeson became a world-renown scholar, actor, athlete and singer.
		MARTIN DUBERMAN, Robeson Biographer: To me, his legacy is his insistence, especially after he became politicized, that there simply need not be as much suffering in the world as there currently is. The few need not have so much and the many need not have so little.
		Paul's capacity to excite admiration in large groups of people, fl and otherwise, here, in Africa, and over the world, made him constitute a real threat to the powers that be.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/1998/robeson_4-9.html (1274 words)

	American Masters . Paul Robeson \| PBS
		At the height of his popularity, Robeson was a national symbol and a cultural leader in the war against fascism abroad and racism at home.
		When Robeson returned to the United States in 1963, he was misdiagnosed several times and treated for a variety of physical and psychological problems.
		If we are to remember Paul Robeson for anything, it should be for the courage and the dignity with which he struggled for his own personal voice and for the rights of all people.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/robeson_p.html (811 words)

	The Many Faces of Paul Robeson
		This philosophy drove Robeson to Spain during the civil war, to Africa to promote self-determination, to India to aid in the independence movement, to London to fight for labor rights, and to the Soviet Union to promote anti-fascism.
		Yet Robeson stuck to his principles and refused to swear an affidavit that he was not a Communist.
		The activities here are designed to introduce students to Paul Robeson and his many accomplishments and to address the issue of individual freedom versus national security.
	www.archives.gov /education/lessons/robeson (925 words)

	Quotes from Paul Robeson on the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In a 1950 debate on Paul Robeson’s statement that Negros would not fight against the Soviet Union, Mr.
		"....Paul Robeson is wrong in giving consent by silence to a political way of life whose strategy is amoral and subject to reversal whenever it suits the whims or fears of a tiny group of men in the Kremlin....
		Paul Robeson may believe it is justifiable to practice consistency and integrity only on alternate Thursdays.
	www.leftwatch.com /paul_robeson/quotes.html (1650 words)

	Paul Robeson Conference at Lafayette - April 7-9, 2005
		The appearance of Paul Robeson in a series devoted to the great opera singers of the century may cause a raised eyebrow or two.
		On May 18, 1952, Paul Robeson, in defiance of the United States government, stood on a makeshift stage at the Peace Arch Park in Canada, one foot away from the American border, and sang to 40,000 Canadians and Americans, proving that his voice could not be silenced.
		Robeson!’ He smiled — he was a huge man with the most wonderful smile in the world — and said, ‘I’ll sing you a work song’ He barely used his voice, using less effort than a whisper.
	www.lafayette.edu /webdata/robeson/audio.html (478 words)

	USPS - Event Report: Performer, Athlete, Activist Paul Robeson Honored on Postage Stamp
		The Paul Robeson stamp is the 27th stamp in the Black Heritage series issued by the U.S. Postal Service.
		Robeson was born in Princeton, on April 9, 1898.
		Robeson died on Jan. 23, 1976, at the age of 77.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/calendar/fdevents/reports/04_robeson.htm (575 words)

	We Shall Overcome -- Paul Robeson Home
		Paul Robeson was a gifted student and athlete while attending Rutgers University in New Jersey.
		Robeson performed on Broadway, and is noted for his leading roles in Othello and Eugene O'Neill's play, Emperor Jones, and his stunning rendition of the song "Ole Man River" in the musical Showboat.
		Robeson began receiving death threats from the Ku Klux Klan while campaigning for the Progressive Party candidate in the 1948 presidential election.
	www.nps.gov /history/nr/travel/civilrights/ny1.htm (531 words)

	"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves": Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC
		ROBESON: Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.
		ROBESON: Whatever has happened to Stalin, gentlemen, is a question for the Soviet Union, and I would not argue with a representative of the people who, in building America, wasted sixty to a hundred million lives of my people, fl people drawn from Africa on the plantations.
		ROBESON: I say that he is as patriotic an American as there can be, and you gentlemen belong with the Alien and Sedition Acts, and you are the nonpatriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6440 (3511 words)

	Happy Birthday, Paul Robeson!
		Robeson was marked as he walked America's jagged, rocky color line, the line that W.E.B DuBois called the "problem of the 20th century." After winning a scholarship to Rutgers University, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and went on to Columbia Law School.
		Paul Robeson's culture was very much geared to and strongly identified with the working class.
		The "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen" catalogue from Rutgers is one of the most recent to take stock of him in total and assess his contemporary significance.
	www.seeingblack.com /x040901/robeson.shtml (3409 words)

	"Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen"
		With few exceptions, Robeson was unable to escape the stereotypes imposed upon him as an African American actor by the theater and film industries.
		During the 1930s while Robeson was living and traveling abroad, he came to realize that his responsibilities extended to all peoples subjected to social and political injustice, not only to African Americans.
		Robeson eventually regained his passport, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the State Department could not deny citizens the right to travel because of their political beliefs or affiliations.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/robeson/robes2.htm (505 words)

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