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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.
The Bustill family is a prominent American family of largely African, ... Eslanda Goode. Paul Robeson Jr. (1927–2014) m. Marilyn Paula Greenberg David (died 1998)
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The Robison family murders (also known as the Good Hart murders) are an unsolved mass murder which occurred in the secluded resort area of Good Hart, Michigan, on June 25, 1968. [3] The victims were a vacationing upper-middle-class family from Lathrup Village who were shot and killed inside their Lake Michigan holiday cottage, with two ...
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]
Robeson began dating Eslanda "Essie" Goode [60] and after her coaxing, [61] he made his theatrical debut as Simon in Ridgely Torrence's Simon of Cyrene. [62] After a year of courtship, they were married in August 1921. [63] Robeson was recruited by Fritz Pollard to play for the NFL's Akron Pros while he continued his law studies. [64]
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. In Moscow, he attended an elite school.
Lucy Goode Brooks (1818–1900), American slave who was instrumental in the founding of the Friends' Asylum for Colored Orphans; Eslanda Goode Robeson (c. 1895 – 1965), American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist; Henry Goode Blasdel (1825–1900), American politician