Paul Robeson, Jr.
| Paul Robeson, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 2, 1927 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, historian |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (1949) |
| Spouse(s) | Marilyn Paula Greenberg (m. 1949) |
Paul Robeson, Jr. (born November 2, 1927) is an American author, archivist and historian.
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[edit] Biography
Robeson was born in New York City to entertainer and activist Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson. As his family moved to Europe he grew up in England and Moscow, in the Soviet Union. In Moscow he attended an elite school. The Robesons returned to the US in 1938 to live first in Harlem, New York, and after 1941 in Enfield, Connecticut. Robeson, Jr. graduated from Enfield High School and attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1949.
[edit] Paul Robeson, Sr. legacy
Robeson has maintained on many occasions that his father "never joined the Communist Party or any party for that matter -- he was an independent artist and would never submit to any kind of organizational discipline."
On his own politics he has stated: "I was much more an organized political person", he said, adding that from about 1948 to 1962, he was a member of the Communist Party. "It was an instrument, a radical instrument that could help advance the interests of African-Americans. It helped build the early civil-rights movement and independent trade union movement in the 1930s, '40s and '50s." But he said he left the party in 1962 after "it became bureaucratic and corrupt".[1]
Robeson's father, Paul Sr., was one of his closest friends and protectors traveling with and living with him at intermittent points of his life. Following his father's death Robeson Jr, has worked extensively to establish The Paul Robeson Archive and the Paul Robeson Foundation. The archive, currently housed at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center is the largest repository in the Western hemisphere of Robeson documents and articles totaling well over 50,000 items.[2] He is of Igbo descent through his father.[3]
[edit] Bibliography
- Robeson, Jr., Paul (1993). Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism. USA: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813523222.
- Robeson, Jr., Paul (2001). The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: The Early Years, 1898-1939. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0471242659.
- Robeson, Jr., Paul (2006). Black Way of Seeing: From "Liberty" to Freedom. New York: Seven Stories Press. ISBN 1583227253.
- Robeson Jr., Paul (2000-03-02). "The Counterfeit `Paul Robeson.'". The New York Amsterdam News 91 (9): 24–25.
[edit] References
- ^ Arnold H. Lubasch (21 October 1993). "In Harlem With: Paul Robeson Jr.; Finding His Own Voice And Learning to Use It". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D61E30F932A15753C1A965958260. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
- ^ Duberman, Martin (1989). Paul Robeson. New York: Knopf. pp. 557. ISBN 0394527801.
- ^ Robeson II, Paul (2001) (PDF). The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939. Wiley. p. 3. ISBN 0-471-24265-9. http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/59/04712426/0471242659.pdf. Retrieved 2008-12-27. "A dark-skinned man descended from the Ibo tribe of Nigeria, Reverend Robeson was of medium height with broad shoulders, and had an air of surpassing dignity."
[edit] External links
- Paul Robeson, Jr. at the Internet Movie Database
- Paul Robeson, Jr. at the Internet Broadway Database
- Works by or about Paul Robeson, Jr. in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- 1927 births
- Living people
- Paul Robeson family
- African American academics
- African American studies scholars
- African American writers
- American expatriates in Russia
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- American academics
- American communists
- American historians
- American literary critics
- American people of Igbo descent
- Cornell University alumni
- People from New York City
- American expatriates in the Soviet Union
