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His wife Eslanda "Essie," who had published a book on Robeson, Paul Robeson, Negro (1930), sued for divorce in 1932. Her actions were encouraged by the fact that Robeson had fallen in love and planned to marry Yolande Jackson, a white Englishwoman.
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Paul Robeson was indeed more than an artist, activist and freedom fighter. The dimensions of his talent made him our Renaissance man. He was the first American artist, Black or White, to realize that the role of the artist extends far beyond the stage and the concert hall. ... In January 1938 he visited Spain with his wife,
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www.africawithin.com/clarke/clarke_on_robeson.htm
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Paul Robeson, the son of William Drew Robeson, a former slave, was born in Princeton, New Jersey on 9th April, 1898. Paul's mother, Maria Louisa Bustin, came from a family that had been involved in the campaign for African-American Civil Rights. ... In 1935 Robeson and his wife Eslanda Goode, visited the Soviet Union.
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www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArobeson.htm
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArobeson.htm
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The mission of the Paul Robeson Foundation, a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, is to preserve and extend Paul Robeson’s rich legacy of humanism, civil rights activism, and excellence in scholarship ,athleticism and artistic expression. ... Paul Robeson 1898-1976 ... Diaries and writings of Robeson's wife,
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www.paulrobesonfoundation.org/
www.paulrobesonfoundation.org/
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Robeson's health had begun to fade in the early sixties before his return the United States. His health went on a slow decline. On December 13, 1965 Eslanda (Essie) Robeson, Paul's wife of 44 years, succumbed after an intermittent illness.
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www.duboislc.org/ShadesOfBlack/PaulRobeson.html
www.duboislc.org/ShadesOfBlack/PaulRobeson.html
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Footsteps: Actor and musician Paul Robeson's wife Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson's maternal grandfather, Francis Lewis Cardozo, was the first black treasurer of South Carolina during Reconstruction and her father was the first African American to graduate from Northwestern University in Illinois. ... Robeson, Marilyn...
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About Paul Robeson ... In 1923, Robeson earned a law degree from the Columbia Law School. There, he met his wife Eslanda Cordoza Goode, the first black woman to head a pathology laboratory. Robeson took a job with a law firm after graduation, but left the firm and the practice of law when a white secretary refused to...
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prcc.rutgers.edu/Robeson/biography.htm
prcc.rutgers.edu/Robeson/biography.htm
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Born in Princeton on April 9, 1898, the son of an ex-slave, Paul Robeson became a world-renown scholar, actor, athlete and singer. At the pinnacle of his artistic career in the 1940s, Robeson turned his attention to human rights, becoming an eloquent, ... OSSIE DAVIS: Well, Paul visited Ruby and me--Ruby Dee is my wife-
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www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/1998/robeson_4-9.html
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/1998/robeson_4-9.html
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Paul Robeson was one of the foremost African-Americans of the twentieth century. He was a world renowned singer and actor and a leading civil rights activist. ... Paul Robeson Cymru Committee. Let Paul Robeson Sing! : a celebration of the life of Paul Robeson and his relationship with Wales. (Bevan Foundation, 2001).
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www.agor.org.uk/cwm/themes/Life/international_relations/paul_robeson.asp
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