Political Activism
- "Americans
Through Their Labor:" Paul Robeson's Vision of Cultural
and Economic Democracy (Mark D. Naison)
- Freedom
Song
Article by Howard Fast in New Statesman,
May 7, 2001.
- "I
Am at Home," Says Robeson at Reception in Soviet
Union
An interview with Vern Smith, first published in
the Daily Worker, January 15, 1935 and reprinted
as a centenary tribute in Revolutionary Democracy,
September, 1998.
- Interview
with Paul Robeson, Jr.
Incomplete transcript of an interview done in conjunction
with the CNN series Cold War, from the National
Security Archive at George Washington University.
- Landis,
Robeson, & Robinson
"How a 'gentleman's agreement' and the fear of communism
delayed the integration of baseball," from SportsJones.
- Paul
and Eslanda Robeson (FBI documents)
Released under the Freedom of Information Act, 2,680
pages of documents detail the investigations begun
in the 1940s and continued into the 1960s. (PDF
format; requires Acrobat Reader.)
- Paul
Robeson (African National Congress)
Includes a
brief biography, Alex La Guma's paper Paul
Robeson and Africa and tributes to Robeson.
- Paul
Robeson: Anti-Racist Fighter for Socialism
Reprinted from the April 16, 1998 issue of Workers
World.
- Paul
Robeson as Singer, Actor, Activist (Hans Knight,
The New York Times)
- Paul
Robeson in Albany - May 9th, 1947
- The
Paul Robeson--Jackie Robinson Saga and a Political
Collision (Ronald A. Smith)
Published in Journal of Sport History, vol.
6, no. 2 (Summer, 1979). PDF format requires Acrobat
reader.
- Paul
Robeson--Singer, Athlete, Actor, Civil Rights Leader
The NAACP celebration at their presentation of the
Spingarn Medal to Robeson in 1945. From African
American Odyssey, an exhibit at the Library of Congress.
- Paul
Robeson, the Artist as Activist and Social Thinker
(The John Henrik Clarke Virtual Museum)
- Paul
Robeson, the Cold War, and the Question of African-American
Loyalties
Article by John Vernon in Negro History Bulletin,
April-September, 1999.
- Paul Robeson: 'The Tallest Tree in our Forest'
Article by Marilyn Bechtel, People's Weekly World, April 8, 2006.
- Remarks
by Harry Belafonte about Paul Robeson to the Veterans
of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Robeson's
Most Important Role Was as Seeker of Justice
An article by Eugene Kane, published in the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel on February 28, 1999.
- Testimony
of Eslanda Goode Robeson, McCarthy Hearings
Mrs. Robeson's testimony of July 7, 1953, begins
on page 318 of this PDF document (p. 1223,
vol. 2 in the 5-volume
publication). Requires Acrobat Reader.
- Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize (Paul Robeson)
- Why
I Am a Socialist
Extracts from an interview of Robeson on Pacifica
Radio, San Francisco, March 15, 1958.
- "You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves": Paul Robeson Appears Before HUAC (History Matters)
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