Paul Robeson

...certain documents to the public after a person has died. Terkel's paper trail started in 1945. It references Terkel speaking at a Paul Robeson rally at Chicago's Civic Opera House and quotes a source who questioned Terkel's "loyalty to the...

In this article: FBI, Studs Terkel, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, City University of New York, and Michael Milken

...to take inspiration from the New York-based communist newspaper "Daily Worker" and that he once said blacklisted actor and singer Paul Robeson "is a product of all the people fighting for freedom, for justice for all." A 1950 file states...

In this article: Studs Terkel, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Democracy, McCarthy era, Chicago, and Freedom of Information Act

...actor and activist he portrays. Aluko, 47, says he was singing in Liverpool when "a lady came up to me and said I reminded her of Paul Robeson . . . I didn't know anything about him." He read up on the pioneering black American actor and...

In this article: Columbia Law, Othello, Ol' Man River, and Rutgers

Elaine Morgan: The first time in their lives many in the valley had seen a black man Nov 6 2009 by Elaine Morgan, Western Mail WHEN Paul Robeson visited the British Isles, one of the biggest audiences that ever assembled to hear him sing...

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...that any lover of great singing should investigate. They allow one to enjoy his art as a singer without the heavy overlay of politics that (IMO) somewhat marred his Vanguard recordings. I think you should also have mentioned he was a...

In this article: Peter Applebome, Desdemona, EMI, McCarthyism, E mail, The Baltimore Sun, Othello, and Leni Riefenstahl

...Trap; was Tweedledee in Eva Le Gallienne's famous adaptation of Alice in Wonderland; was Roderigo in the 1943 Othello that starred Paul Robeson, Jose Ferrer and Uta Hagen; and appeared alongside Helen Hayes in the Elia Kazan-directed hit...

In this article: Rancho Palos Verdes, Othello, University of Cincinnati, Tweedledee, Junior Miss, Abe Burrows, Alice in Wonderland, and Stephen Sondheim

...Joe and sang "Ol' Man River" in the 1951 film version of ''Show Boat, received tenth billing as if he were merely a bit player, while Paul Robeson, an established star who played the same role in the 1936 film version of the musical, received...

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...Commanday, created a home environment in which music was a part of normal daily activity. Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger and The Weavers were visitors to the Bauman home and the appearance of Louis Armstrong's All Stars in a concert series produced...

In this article: Chuck Israels, Stan Getz, Mordecai Bauman, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Western Washington University, Coltrane Time, My Point of View, Bill Evans, and Hanns Eisler

...within my power on behalf of independence of colonial people in Africa, " African-American athlete, bass, actor, and activist Paul Robeson attempted to tell Richard Nixon, Sen. Joe McCarthy and their House Un-American Activities Committee.

In this article: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, EMI, Stephen Hill, Wigmore Hall, Trevor Pinnock, G. F. Handel, and Robert Schumann

...bandleader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974). The film was written and directed by Dudley Murphy, who later directed the 1933 film The Emperor Jones starring Paul Robeson. In Black and Tan, Duke Ellington plays himself, but as an...

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