Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner

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Freedomways
International Publishers Co, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 396 pages
Compiled by the editors of Freedomways. Tributes to Robeson in prose and poetry by his contemporaries. Selections from Robeson's own writings. Foreword to this edition by Ernest Kaiser. Updated bibliography.

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Contents

His Political Legacy to the Twentieth
17
Paul Robeson on the English Stage
26
The Cultural Philosophy of Paul Robeson
50
The Culture of the Negro
65
An Iconoclasts Quest for a Role
72
Paul Robesons Mission in Music
87
Great Friend of the Soviet People
94
Our Beloved Pauli
100
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261
By Lloyd L Brown
263
By Robert S Browne
267
By Margaret Burroughs
269
By Alice Childress
272
By John Conyers
274
By George W Crockett
275
By Tom Dent
280

American Negroes in the
107
Paul Robeson at Peekskill
130
Paul Robesons Impact on History
142
The Book They Could Not
150
The Power of Negro Action
160
Paul Robeson and Rutgers Students
178
The Artist as Activist and Social Thinker
189
Legacy of Courage
202
Were Moving
211
The Battleground Is Here
223
Ho Chi Minh Is Toussaint LOuverture of IndoChina
229
Paul Robeson
235
The Lion in Daniels Den by Nikki Giovanni
238
To Paul Robeson by Nazim Hikmet
239
For Paul Robeson A BluesJazz Cantata by Antar Sudan Katara Mberi
240
Ode to Paul Robeson by Pablo Neruda
244
To Paul Robeson by Edward Royce
251
Until They Have Stopped by Sarah E Wright
252
TRIBUTES IN PROSE
255
By Edward J Bloustein
257
By Brigitte Bogelsack
259
By Shirley Graham Du Bois
284
By Dick Gregory
285
By J Clinton Hoggard
286
By Lena Horne
290
By Mbiyu Koinange
291
By John Lewis
292
By George B Murphy
296
By Jawaharlal Nehru
300
By William L Patterson
301
By Thelma Dale Perkins
304
By Paul Robeson
308
By Pete Seeger
311
By Hope R Stevens
313
By AfroAmerican Newspaper
317
Chronology by Erwin A Salk
319
Notes
323
Bibliography by Ernest Kaiser
329
Notes about the Contributors
381
Second Supplemental Bibliography
385
Index Photographs follow page 212
391
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