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Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson (December 15, 1895 – December 13, 1965) was an American anthropologist, author, actress, and civil rights activist. She was the wife and business manager of performer Paul Robeson .
Paul Leroy Robeson (/ ˈ r oʊ b s ən / ROHB-sən; [3] [4] April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.
Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson (November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904) was a Quaker schoolteacher; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.
Here I Stand is a 1958 book written by Paul Robeson with the collaboration of Lloyd L. Brown. While Robeson wrote many articles and speeches, Here I stand is his only book. It has been described as part manifesto, part autobiography. [1] It was published by Othello Associates and dedicated to his wife Eslanda Goode Robeson. [2]
PHOTO: James Earl Jones as Paul Robeson, with his bust, at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, in 1978. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) ... His second wife, Cecilia Hart, died in ...
Following his father's death, Robeson Jr. worked extensively to establish the Paul Robeson Archive and the Paul Robeson Foundation. The archive, 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. [ 9 ]
After the rally, Robeson and his wife Essie had entertained Feffer and Mikhoels. According to an account by Paul Robeson Jr told to Robeson biographer Martin Duberman, [15] in the 1980s, Robeson was disturbed as to why he could not find his many Jewish friends when he returned to the U.S.S.R. in June 1949. After several inquiries, Feffer was ...
The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley and wife Ines de Ramon have called it quits after three years of marriage, Us Weekly can confirm. Celebrity Splits of 2022: Stars Who Broke Up This Year.