| LC control no. | n 80064276 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML420.R73 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 |
| Variant(s) | Robson, Polʹ, 1898-1976 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1898-04-09 |
| Death date | 1976-01-23 |
| Place of birth | Princeton (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Musicals Theater Motion pictures |
| Affiliation | Rutgers College Phi Beta Kappa Columbia University. School of Law Pan Africanist Movement (South Africa) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Profession or occupation | Singers Actors Civil rights workers Activists |
| Found in | Robeson, E. (Goode) Paul Robeson, Negro, 1930 Paul Robeson's last days in Philadelphia, c1986: p. 1 (Paul Bustill Robeson) Paul Robeson [SR] p1989: label (Paul Robeson) insert (Paul Leroy Robeson, b. 8-9-1898 [sic], d. 1-76) New Grove dict. of Amer. mus. (Robeson, Paul; b. 4-9-1898, Princeton, N.J., d. 1-23-76, Philadelphia, Pa.; bass-baritone and actor) Baker, 8th ed. (Robeson, Paul (Bustill); b. 4-9-1898, Princeton, N.J., d. 1-23-76, Philadelphia; American bass and actor) Internet Movie Database WWW site, May 7, 2013: biography (Paul Robeson; actor, singer, activist; married Eslande Cardozo Goode in 1921; attended Rutgers University beginning in 1915 and Columbia University's law school; film debut, Body and Soul in 1925; performed in Showboat and Othello in London and spent most of his time singing and performing in England throughout the 1930s; activist personally involved with the civil rights affairs of the Welsh miners; founder of Progressive Party, an independent political party; his passport withdrawn for nearly ten years due to his refusal to deny accusations of an affiliation with Communist Party; final acting performance in Othello at Stratford-on-Avon in 1959; awards include College Football Hall of Fame in 1995; Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998) African American National Biography, accessed September 10, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Robeson, Paul; Paul Leroy Robeson; stage / screen actor, civil rights activist, concert singer; born 09 April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States; scholarship, Rutgers College (later Rutgers University) (1915); elected to Phi Beta Kappa; twice named football All-America (1917 and 1918); LLB degree from Columbia University Law School (1923); performed at Carnegie Hall (1925); introduced to socialism by George Bernard Shaw (1928); lived in Europe (1930s); returned to the United States (1939); joined the Pan-Africanist Council on African Affairs; awarded Spingarn Medal (1945) from NAACP; addressed the World Peace Congress in Paris (1949); remains the only two-time All-American not in the College Football Hall of Fame; died 23 January 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) |
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