Compiled by the editors of Freedomways. Tributes to Robeson in prose and poetry by his contemporaries. Selections from Robeson's own writings. Foreword to this edition by Ernest Kaiser. Updated bibliography.
Blacklisted, his famed voice silenced, Here I Stand offered a bold answer to his accusers. It remains today a defiant challenge to the prevailing fear and racism that continues to characterize American society.
James, C.L.R. “Paul Robeson: Black Star.” In Spheres of Existence: Selected Writings, 3:256–264. London: Allison and Busby, 1980. First appeared in Black World, 1970. Stewart, Jeffrey C., ed. Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen.
Filled with previously unpublished photographs and source materials from the private diaries and letters of Paul and Eslanda Robeson, this is the epic story of a forerunner who now stands as one of America's greatest heroes.
His message of peace, equality and justice was understood as much on the streets of Manchester, Moscow, Johannesburg and Bombay as it was in Harlem and Washington, DC. Jordan Goodman tells the story of Robeson during the tumultuous Cold War ...
... 1991): Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem during the Depression (New York: Grove Press, 1984); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring ofAmerican Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1996), Fraser Ottanelli, ...
Seeger analogizes the resistance at Peekskill to the vaccination against Thomas E. Dewey Pete Seeger, half-length portrait, singing while playing banjo, 1955. Palumbo, Fred, photographer. smallpox; in this incident, enough people saw a ...
This book is developed from PAUL ROBESON: ACTOR, SINGER, POLITICAL ACTIVIST to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.
Her book, Paul Robeson, Negro, was first published in 1930.
Paul Robeson, All-American
A biography of the black man who became both a famous singer and a controversial figure in world politics.