Paul Robeson AKA Paul Leroy Bustill Robeson Born: 9-Apr-1898 Birthplace: Princeton, NJ Died: 23-Jan-1976 Location of death: Philadelphia, PA Cause of death: Stroke Remains: Buried, Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Singer, Actor, Activist Nationality: United States Executive summary: 20th Century renaissance man Father: Rev. William Drew Robeson (escaped slave, d. 1918) Mother: Maria Louisa Bustill Wife: Eslanda Cardozo Goode (pathology technician, m. 1921) Son: Paul Robeson, Jr. (b. 1927)
High School: Somerville High School, New Jersey (1915) University: BA, Rutgers University (1919) Law School: LLB, Columbia Law School (1923)
Hollywood Anti-Fascist League Phi Beta Kappa Society Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame 1974 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1998) College Football Hall of Fame Spingarn Medal 1945 Lenin Peace Prize 1953 Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey 1995 Suicide Attempt Moscow (27-Mar-1961) Shock Treatment Assassination Attempt HUAC Hearings (12-Jun-1956) Took the Fifth (12-Jun-1956) Cherokee Ancestry Maternal
SPORTS FRANCHISE HISTORY Akron Pros Offensive Tackle/Tight End (1921) Milwaukee Badgers Tight End (1922)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Tales of Manhattan (5-Aug-1942) Native Land (11-May-1942) [VOICE] The Proud Valley (6-Apr-1940) · David Big Fella (16-Jun-1937) King Solomon's Mines (Jun-1937) · Umbopa Song of Freedom (17-Aug-1936) · John Zinga Show Boat (14-May-1936) · Joe Sanders of the River (8-Apr-1935) Emperor Jones (19-Sep-1933) · Brutus Jones Body and Soul (9-Nov-1925)
Is the subject of books:
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey 1898-1939, 2001, BY: Paul Robeson, Jr.
Author of books:
Here I Stand (1958, memoir)
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