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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.
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Robeson has one son and is the daughter of author Paul Robeson Jr. and Marilyn Paula Greenberg, who were married in New York City in 1949 with a mob outside protesting their interracial union. She is the granddaughter of singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson Sr. and anthropologist and author Eslanda Goode Robeson.
Robeson was born in Brooklyn to lawyer, actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson and chemist, author and activist Eslanda Goode Robeson.As his family moved to Europe, he grew up in England (visiting the St Mary's Town and Country School in London) and Moscow, in the Soviet Union.
Eslanda Cardozo Goode was born in Washington, D.C., on December 15, 1895. [2] Her maternal great-grandparents were Isaac Nunez Cardozo, a Sephardic Jew whose family was expelled from Spain in the 17th century, [3] and Lydia Weston, who was of partial African descent and had been enslaved and then manumitted in 1826 by Plowden Weston in Charleston, South Carolina.
Sadie Tanner Mossell, niece, Paul Robeson (nephew) Charles Hicks Bustill (father-in-law) Nathan Francis Mossell (July 27, 1856 – October 27, 1946) was an American physician who was the first African-American graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1882.
Brown was born Lloyd Dight in St. Paul, Minnesota, son of African-American Ralph Dight, a waiter originally from Alabama, and Magdalena Paul Dight, from Stearns County, Minnesota. Brown and his three siblings were raised Roman Catholic and attended St. Peter Claver Church in