Research Catalog

Title

Paul Robeson collection, 1925-1956, 1943-1956 (bulk)

Author

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

• 6.8 lin. ft.
• 9 microfilm reels.

Summary

Correspondence, texts of speeches, articles, columns and statements written by Paul Robeson and his wife, Eslanda Goode Robeson, photographs, news clippings, and press releases documenting Robeson's artistic and political activities. Correspondence pertains to Robeson's artistic career, and includes letters written by Eslanda Robeson regarding her husband's difficulties as a result of his association with the Soviet Union. Additional correspondence, reports, news clippings, contracts, and printed matter were generated by Robeson's national tours from 1952 to 1956. Included are materials about the concert and riot which took place in Peekskill, N.Y. during one of Robeson's performances, 1949; correspondence and legal papers referring to Robeson's difficulties in his effort to have his United Stattes passport restored; and letters by William Patterson and W.E.B. Du Bois. Also included are files on various organizations associated with Robeson in the 1950s, including the Council on African Affairs, the National Negro Labor Council, and the World Peace Council.

Subjects

• Peace movements > United States
• Council on African Affairs
• African Americans > Soviet Union
• United States > Social life and customs
• Peekskill (N.Y.) > Social conditions
• African American singers
• African Americans > Civil rights
• Riots > New York (State) > Peekskill
• Working class > United States > Societies, etc
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Labor movement > United States > Societies, etc
• Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
• National Negro Labor Council (U.S.)
• Performing arts > United States
• African American actors
• Patterson, William L (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980
• Photoprints
• World Peace Council
• Civil rights workers
• Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965
• African Americans > Political activity
• United States > Social conditions > 1945-1960
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

Genre/Form

Photoprints.

Note

• Photographs separated to Photographs and Prints Division and are described separately.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Source (note)

• Patterson, William L.

Biography (note)

• Singer, dramatic actor, civil rights activist.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• "The Paul Robeson Collection," a guide to the microfilm collection compiled by David H. Werning. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1991. Call no. Sc F 94-328.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Updated

Call Number

Sc MG 170

OCLC

NYPW89-A185

Author

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.

Title

Paul Robeson collection, 1925-1956, 1943-1956 (bulk)

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Biography

Singer, dramatic actor, civil rights activist.

Indexes

"The Paul Robeson Collection," a guide to the microfilm collection compiled by David H. Werning. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1991. Call no. Sc F 94-328.

Connect to:

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Finding aid

Occupation

African American singers.

African American actors.

Civil rights workers.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 170

Sc Micro R-5956