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38 unusual facts about Paul Robeson


2328 Robeson

2328 Robeson (1972 HW) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 19, 1972 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj it was named after Paul Robeson

Andrew J. Thomas

Notable Harlem residents who moved to the complex included W. E. B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson and Bill Robinson.

Ballad for Americans and Other American Ballads

Allmusic states "Odetta's rendition has a vitality and immediacy that puts it squarely in the thick of 1960, in the middle of the civil rights movement's heyday, at a time when Paul Robeson, because of age and infirmity, and years of fighting the government's efforts to silence him, was in eclipse as an artist."

Ben Guillory

Raised in San Francisco, California, Guillory co-founded the Robey Theatre Company in honor of the late actor, activist, and operatic singer Paul Robeson, with actor Danny Glover in Los Angeles in 1994, and currently serves as its artistic director.

Big Fella

Paul Robeson stars in the leading role, as a street-wise but honest dockworker who struggles with deep issues of integrity and human values.

Bitch Bad

He dedicates the video to Paul Robeson and the “many black actors who endured the humiliating process of blackface in America".

Buddy Collette

He also helped organize a concert and rally protesting government repression of the African American singer, actor, and political activist Paul Robeson.

Burnita Shelton Matthews

Matthews heard several newsworthy cases, including the passport denial of actor Paul Robeson and the 1956 bribery trial of Jimmy Hoffa.

Cwmbach

The choir has shared a concert platform with some world famous artists, including Paul Robeson, Sir Geraint Evans, Stuart Burrows, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Constance Shacklock, Patricia Kern and the internationally renowned guitarist John Williams.

Edinburgh University Socialist Society

In 1949 the society host a performance by singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson.

Emanuel Rackman

In a 1977 profile in The New York Times, Rabbi Rackman cited his opposition to the death penalty for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and his support for Paul Robeson as factors behind the decision.

Floyd McKissick

One of his early protests was in his hometown, Asheville, NC, because the city refused to permit actor Paul Robeson to speak in the city auditorium in the 1930s.

Freedom Road Socialist Organization

The FRSO later absorbed other groups too, including the Amílcar Cabral-Paul Robeson Collective in 1988 and the Socialist Organizing Network in 1994.

Hervey White

In 1916 White began sponsoring concerts, primarily classical music; the Maverick concert hall has been home to performances by Paul Robeson and John Cage.

Itzik Feffer

The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943, in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.

James Marley

In April 1929, the African-American concert singer Paul Robeson was refused entry to a London hotel.

Janet Ramsey Johnson

She appeared in supporting roles in several films over the next few years, including Michael Balcon’s vehicle for Paul Robeson, The Proud Valley.

Joe Hill Award

Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger often performed this song and are associated with it.

John P. Hammond

Hammond's middle name, Paul, is in honor of a friend of his father, the actor Paul Robeson.

Judith Durham

By 2009, Durham's rendition of "A Perfect Day" by Carrie Jacobs-Bond achieved more hits on YouTube than even the version by Paul Robeson but was withdrawn from availability because of questions involving access to intellectual property.

Kenneth Macpherson

The silent film with English inter-titles, dissected race and gender relations and was centred on a love triangle, featuring Paul Robeson and HD.

Killer of Sheep

Though the film won the Critics' Award at the Berlin Film Festival and was acclaimed at the Toronto International Film Festival, it never saw popular release due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as Dinah Washington, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire.

Laurance L. Cross

On May 23, 1952, for example, he spoke out on behalf of Paul Robeson’s right to appear on Bay Area stages, a position which put him at odds with San Francisco Mayor Elmer Robinson.

Martin Duberman

He has written more than twenty books, including ones about James Russell Lowell (a National Book Award finalist), Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (Bancroft Prize winner), Paul Robeson, Stonewall, a biography of Howard Zinn and the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey.

Native Land

Famous African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson participated as an off-screen narrator and vocalist.

Nellie Stone Johnson

While at the University she took classes from E.W. Ziebarth and met Paul Robeson and Swan Assarson.

Paul Robeson: Speak of Me As I Am

There are also interviews with Robeson's two main biographers, Lloyd Brown and Martin Duberman.

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist is a 1979 American short documentary film directed by Saul J. Turell.

Plant Field

Paul Robeson sang at another integrated Wallace rally at Plant Field later that October.

Spruce Hill, Philadelphia

The School District of Philadelphia operates Penn Alexander School and the Paul Robeson High School for Human Services, and the Spruce Hill Christian elementary and middle school is located on Baltimore Avenue.

Stefano Cagol

In 2010 he exhibited at the Paul Robeson Gallery of Rutgers University in Newark in “Bittersweet”, at the Other Gallery in Shanghai in “Suspension of Disbilief”, at Palazzo della Triennale in Milan, at SUPEC – Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center.

Sterling D. Plumpp

Paul Robeson (a children's book; Adjoa J. Burrowes, illustrator), 1998

Studio recording

Paul Robeson, who appeared in several productions of Show Boat (though not the original Broadway production), made many recordings of the song Ol' Man River from the show.

Tábor

This spirit is celebrated in Smetana's "Song of Freedom", made famous in the English-speaking world by Paul Robeson's recording in Czech and English.

The Black Jacobins

In 1934, James wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint Louverture: The story of the only successful slave revolt in history that was performed in 1936 at London's Westminster Theatre with Paul Robeson in the title role.

The Tallest Tree in Our Forest

The Tallest Tree in our Forest is a 1977 documentary film directed and written by Gil Noble, about singer, actor and activist, Paul Robeson.

Walter A. Gordon

In 1918 he became one of the first two African-American All-Americans (the first was Paul Robeson).

Wesley Wilson

This ability to adapt also saw them appear in the 1933 film, The Emperor Jones, alongside Paul Robeson.


16th Street Baptist Church

W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Robeson and Ralph Bunche all spoke at the church during the first part of the 20th century.

Antonio Salemme

In 1924 he attended a performance of The Emperor Jones starring Paul Robeson and subsequently asked the actor to model for him.

Claudia Jones

Supported by her friends Trevor Carter, Nadia Cattouse, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Beryl McBurnie, Pearl Prescod and her lifelong mentor Paul Robeson, Jones campaigned against racism in housing, education and employment.

L.S. Alexander Gumby

The scrapbooks contain autographed photos, stories and letters from such notable performers as Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Ethel Waters, and letters and autographs from Black historical figures such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Father Divine, W.E.B. Dubois, and Marcus Garvey.

Maria Louisa Bustill

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.

Wayne F. Miller

The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson.