Old black joe paul robeson biography

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Paul Robeson

American singer, actor, political activist, and athlete (1898–1976)

This article is about the singer and activist. For his son, see Paul Robeson Jr.

Paul Robeson
Robeson in 1942
Born	Paul Leroy Robeson (1898-04-09)April 9, 1898 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	January 23, 1976(1976-01-23) (aged 77) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Resting place	Ferncliff Cemetery (Greenburgh, New York)
Education
Occupations	Singer actor activist athlete
Known for	Show Boat The Emperor Jones Othello All God's Chillun Got Wings
Spouse	Eslanda Goode ​ ​ (m. 1921; died 1965)​
Children	Paul Robeson Jr.
Parents
Relatives	Bustill family
American football player American football career
Robeson in football uniform at Rutgers, c. 1919
Position:	End / tackle
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	219 lb (99 kg)
High school:	Somerville (NJ)
College:	Rutgers
College Football Hall of Fame

Paul Leroy Robeson (ROHB-sən;^[3][4] April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and ac

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Paul Robeson, Part I: The Making of an International Icon

Paul Robeson was the world’s most famous African American in the first half of the twentieth century. Part I of this series looks at Robeson’s background and his meteoric rise to international fame as an incomparable bass-baritone singer and pioneering African American actor for stage and screen.

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At age 15 in 1860, Paul Robeson’s father, William Drew Robeson (1844–1918), was a fugitive from enslavement on a farm in Martin County, North Carolina. William trekked north to Pennsylvania, found work as a common laborer in the Union Army, and after the Civil War, undertook theology studies at the all-Black Lincoln University, near Philadelphia. In 1878 he married Maria Louisa Bustill, a teacher at Philadelphia’s Robert Vaux School and a member of a prominent family of mixed African, Delaware Indian, and English Quaker descent. By the time their son Paul Leroy Robeson was born on April 9, 1898—the seventh of nine children, five of whom survived infancy—William was pastor of the all-Black Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey. In spiritual matters, Princeton was a Jim Crow town, formed by the all-white university that shared its name. In 1846, whites in the First Presbyterian Church had forced thei