Alamy Stock Photo, dpa picture alliance: 1; SPUTNIK/Alamy Stock Photo: 2; Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library/Alamy Stock Photo: 3; ZUMA Press., Inc.: 4.
Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations: 5.
Carl Van Vechten, and © Van Vechten Trust: 6, 7, 8.
Courtesy Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Collection, Yale University: 9.
Doris Ulmann, photographer. Courtesy of Peter Fetterman: 10.
FBI—Paul Robeson, Sr., Part 1 of 31, Government Publication—Bibliography/Chicago Style Guide/Citefast: 11.
Getty Images: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
Historical Society of Princeton: 28, 29.
Lebrecht Music & Arts Photo Library: 30.
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: LC-USZ62-123429, 31; LC-USZ62-91536, 32; LC-USZ62-127379, 33; LC-H22-D-8745, 34; LC-USZ62-39852, 35; LC-USZ62-119697, 36; LOC Control # 2011645172, NYWTS-SUB-GEOG-Riots-NY, 37; LOC Control #95512127, Call NYWTS-BIOG-McCarthy J, 38; Photo ID: 083.00.00, 39.
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, HowardUniversity, Washington, D.C. Permissions from Robeson Family Trust: 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62.
Museum of the City of New York. Gift of Mr. Bernhard K. Schaefer, 1957. X2012.102.69 (Cotton Club card): 63.
New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Division: 64, 65 (courtesy of the J.W. Debenham Family).
New York Public Library Digital Collections, Music Division: 66.
Photo by White Studio (copyright symbol) Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: 67, 68, 69, 70.
Robert Capa/Magnum Photos: 71.
Rutgers University Libraries, Julius Lazarus Archives and Collection: 72, 73.
Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives: 74, 75, 76, 77, 78.
Satterfield, Shirley: 79.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints, New York Public Library: 80, 81, 82, 83 (Bob Davidoff photographer, courtesy of Sara Davidoff).
The Tully Potter Collection: 84.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: 85.
Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Martin, J. Oppenheimer, Llb 1956: 86.