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Paul Robeson Centennial Celebration
Resources About Paul Robeson (1898-1976)
ARTICLES & BOOKLETS
Available old and new publications on Robeson
Booklets
- Paul Robeson's Living Legacy
by Barbara Armentrout and Sterling Stuckey
24 pages, includes photographs, biography, timeline of his life,
teaching and study resources
Softcover, 8.5x11", 24pp, 1999, ISBN 0-935155-26-0, $7.95
Availablity:
- Paul Robeson Rediscovered:
An Annotated Listing of His Chicago History from 1921 to 1958
- by Joe Powers, Sr. and Mark Rogovin
- produced by Columbia College Chicago and the
Paul Robeson 100th Birthday Committee
- sponsored by the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
- Available Online
- The Peace Advocacy of Paul Robeson
- by Dr. Charles H. Wright, MD
- 26 Pages,
cover includes drawing of Robeson by Detroit artist Leroy Foster
- Availablity: Limited Copies Available
Dr. Charles H. Wright
The Whittier Towers, 415 Burns Drive, Apt 1067
Detroit MI 48214; Ph: 313-822-3445
- Paul Robeson 80th Birthday Celebration - Detroit
- 46 Pages, cover artwork by Charles White, includes many photos,
overviews of his life and tributes to Robeson. Great document to own.
- Availablity: Limited Copies Available
Dr. Charles H. Wright
The Whittier Towers, 415 Burns Drive, Apt 1067
Detroit MI 48214; Ph: 313-822-3445
Articles
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The Hammer Magazine published a Paul Robeson issue in December 1998.
Contact: The Hammer, attn: Stephen Paulmier, 64 West Penn Street,
Philadelphia PA 19144; 215-849-2793, fax: 215-849-5737;
email: Steelhammr@aol.com
- Sing Out! magazine ran
a feature article on Paul Robeson, written by Irwin Silber,
in the Spring
'98 issue (V.42#4, Feb '98, $5.50)
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Salaam Comrade Robeson
by Vijay Prashad, Trinity College
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Robeson's most important role was as seeker of justice
by Eugene Kane
- from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 28, 1999
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The Peekskill Riot by Howard Fast
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News article published in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates
about April 9, 1998 by Mahir Ali
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Paul Robeson receives posthumous Grammy lifetime achievement award
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Honoring the Centennial of Paul Robeson's Birth
- Article from The Black World Today
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Profiles in Connecticut Black History
- Paul Robeson 1898-1976
- Article from the Hartford Courant Feb. 11, 1996 by Helen O'Neill
- with AP file photo - (size 11,843 bytes)
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The first concert consisting solely of Negro spirituals
performed by Paul Robeson, internationally known bass-baritone singer
and actor, at the Greenwich Village Theatre (NY City) in 1925.
Cited in Still Going On, a multimedia celebration of the
centenary of the birth of William Grant Still, the dean of African-American
composers -- a project of The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections
Library, Duke University.
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Robeson, Paul Bustill (1898-1976)
- Internationally known bass-baritone singer and actor.
He established his reputation in Emperor Jones....
- a project of The Digital Scriptorium, Special Collections
Library, Duke University -- 828 bytes, 30 Sep 95
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Music Library Association (MLA) Obituary
- with other Obituary citations and Dictionary citations
- Robeson, Paul -- died 23 Jan 1976, in Philadelphia
- Singer, actor, black activist, scholar, and athlete,...
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Robeson: A fighter against the blacklist
- by Tim Wheeler
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Robeson's working class, Communist legacy
- by Jarvis Tyner
- the People's Weekly World, April 18, 1998
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