Paul Robeson
Subtitle: a watched man
By: Jordan Goodman
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781781681312
Subjects: Actors; Bass-baritones; Political activists; Biography; African Americans
Description: Documents the African-American singer's achievements as both a performer and a political activist who vocally supported civil rights throughout the world, risking his career to raise awareness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-375) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. In the presence of greatness; title: Introduction. Being Paul Robeson, becoming radical; title: Europe 1949. Postwar Britain ; Peace talks in the Salle Pleyel ; Garbled words ; Legal lynching, Jersey style; title: New York and Washington, D.C. 1949. Strike two ; Like a duck ; I am a radical ; Peekskill; title: Jim Crow's world. Strike three ; But not out ; Lynching, Southern style; title: Passport control. The longest undefended border ; A political meddler ; A cruel, criminal libel ; You are the un-Americans; title: Let Robeson go. Kent v. Dulles ; Telling America's story ; Free at last? ; The final tour; title: Epilogue. Freedomways.