*All websites active at time of publication
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Boyle, Sheila Tully, and Andrew Bunie. Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise and Achievement. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Brown, Lloyd L. The Young Paul Robeson: On My Journey Now. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Cunningham, Kevin. J. Edgar Hoover: Controversial FBI Director. Minneapolis, MN: Compass Point Books, 2006.
Decker, Todd. Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Duberman, Martin. Paul Robeson: A Biography. New York: The New Press, 1989.
Dyja, Thomas. Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America. The Library of African-American Biography series. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008.
Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
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Giblin, James Cross. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. New York: Clarion Books, 2002.
Giblin, James Cross. The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy. New York: Clarion Books, 2009.
Goodman, Jordan. Paul Robeson: A Watched Man. New York: Verso, 2013.
Gordon, Linda. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Greenfield, Eloise. Paul Robeson. Illustrated by George Ford. New York: Lee & Low Books, 2009.
Hill, Errol G., and James V. Hatch. A History of African American Theatre (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama). New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea, An Autobiography. American Century series. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
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Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. New York: Nation Books, 2016.
Lane, Stewart F. Black Broadway: African Americans on the Great White Way. Garden City Park, NY: Square One Publishers, 2015.
Lubasch, Arnold H. Robeson: An American Ballad. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
Neruda, Pablo. Let the Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems. New York: International Publishers, 1970, 1988.
Payne, Charles M. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Peters, Margot. Mrs. Pat: The Life of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. London: Bodley Head, 1984.
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Rampersad Arnold, and David Roessel, eds. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Vintage Classics series. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Ransby, Barbara. Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.
Robeson, Eslanda Goode. Paul Robeson, Negro. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930.
Robeson, Paul, with Lloyd L. Brown. Here I Stand. Boston: Beacon Press, 1988.
Robeson, Paul. Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1918–1974. Philip S. Foner, ed. New York: Brunner/Mazel, Inc., a Citadel Press Book, 1978.
Robeson, Paul Jr. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898-1939. New York: Wiley, 2001.
Robeson, Paul Jr. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: Quest for Freedom, 1939–1976. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010.
Robeson, Susan. Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story. Illustrated by Rod Brown. New York: Triangle Square, 2019.
Robeson, Susan. The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1981.
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice. New York: Holiday House, 2016.
Sarna, Jonathan D. American Judaism. A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Seton, Marie. Paul Robeson. London: Dobson Books, 1958.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedie of Othello, The Moor of Venice. New York: Applause, 2001.
Sparrow, Jeff. No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson. Melbourne, Australia: Scribe, 2017.
Stewart, Jacqueline Najuma. Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
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Watterson, Kathryn. I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2010.
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Rutgers College Catalog. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers College, 1915–1916, 1916–1917, 1917–1918, 1918–1919.
Anderson, David. “Robeson and Lamont Passports Received After Seven-Year Fight.” New York Times, June 7, 1958.
Anderson, George. “48 Hurt in Clashes at Robeson Rally; Buses Are Stoned.” New York Times, September 5, 1949.
Broggiotti, Mary. “All American in All Languages.” New York Post, 1950.
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Carter, Richard. “Robeson Home, Met by Cops, Tells Love for U.S.” Daily Compass, June 17, 1949.
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Coleman, Robert. “‘Othello’ at Shubert Is Just Terrific.” The Theatre, 1942.
Cotter, Holland. “Remembering Lynching’s Toll.” New York Times, June 3, 2018.
Davis, George. “A Healing Hand in Harlem.” New York Times, April 22, 1979.
Duberman, Martin. “A Giant Denied His Rightful Stature in Film.” New York Times, March 29, 1998.
Gordon, A. J. “U.S. Cancels Robeson’s Passport After He Refuses to Surrender It.” New York Times, August 4, 1950, p. 1.
Lubasch, Arnold H. “In Harlem With: Paul Robeson Jr.; Finding His Own Voice And Learning to Use It.” New York Times, Archives, October 21, 1993.
McClure, Brian. “Essential Brotherhood: Langston and Thurgood.” Langston Hughes, Omega Psi Phi, April 17, 2011. Stateofhbcus.files.wordspress.com/2011/04/langstonhughesdesignii.jpeg.
McNulty, Charles. “A Jazz Age Baby Is Reborn.” Los Angeles Times, Monday, April 25, 2016.
Moscow, Warren. “Robeson Backers Prepared to Fight.” New York Times, Monday, September 5, 1949.
“Paul Robeson’s Voice Rings Over Spain’s Battlefield,” New York Post. Madrid, January 28, 1939.
Poitier, Sidney. Interview, complete in MFLA 73–456, Cineaste V. 8 #3, Winter 1977/78.
Popper, Ellen. “A View from the Audience.” Playbill, April 1978.
“Proud Valley—Songs of People.” Morning Telegraph, May 19, 1941.
Robeson, Paul. “A Wonderful Thing Has Happened.” Newark News, London, July 11, 1958.
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Robeson, Paul Jr. “The Counterfeit ‘Paul Robeson.’ A Legacy Demeaned.” New York Amsterdam News, February 3–9, 2000.
Robinson, Jackie. Text of statement. New York Times, July 10, 1949; August 2, 1949.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. “Mrs. Roosevelt calls outbreak ‘horrible.’ ” New York Herald Tribune, September 1, 1949.
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Sullivan, John Jeremiah. “American Shuffle.” New York Times Magazine, March 27, 2016.
Tapley, Mel. “Every Artist Must Know Where He Stands.” New York Amsterdam News, January 31, 1976.
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Michael, Vernoca L., Director, Paul Robeson House & Museum, September 14, 2017, and February 3, 2018.
Satterfield, Shirley, Educator, and Historian of the African-American community in Princeton, New Jersey, August 16 and September 26, 2017.
Commencement Program. Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, June 10th, 1919.
Robeson, Paul and Lawrence Brown and Bruno Raikin. August 10, 1958.
