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• catalog abstract "Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of America's most controversial figures during the Cold War. Hailed by many as a forerunner of the civil rights movement, he was denounced by others and seen by the U.S. government as a threat to the nation's security at home and abroad. Now for the first time there is an illuminating, firsthand view of this remarkable. African American by a writer who is uniquely qualified to tell the story. A close friend and coworker of Robeson's for twenty-five years, Lloyd L. Brown assisted in the writing of Robeson's book Here I Stand. Now he has combined painstaking research with personal observation in his own book, The Young Paul Robeson. Reflecting on interviews with Robeson's schoolmates in elementary school, high school, Rutgers University, and Columbia Law School and drawing on original. Information from other sources, Brown provides a well-paced narrative of Robeson's life from his birth in Princeton to the budding of his artistic career in Harlem. Because Robeson always attributed his achievements to the guiding hand of his slave-born father, the Reverend William D. Robeson, Brown traced Robeson's ancestral roots to North Carolina, where he found and interviewed cousins of Robeson as well as descendants of the family that had owned Robeson's father and. His grandparents. Brown's discovery of how William Robeson escaped to freedom and gained academic excellence is one of the many aspects of the Paul Robeson legend told here for the first time.".
• catalog contributor b9706542.
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "African American by a writer who is uniquely qualified to tell the story. A close friend and coworker of Robeson's for twenty-five years, Lloyd L. Brown assisted in the writing of Robeson's book Here I Stand. Now he has combined painstaking research with personal observation in his own book, The Young Paul Robeson. Reflecting on interviews with Robeson's schoolmates in elementary school, high school, Rutgers University, and Columbia Law School and drawing on original.".
• catalog description "Famous as a football star and prizewinning student, then acclaimed as a world-class concert singer and actor on stage and screen, Paul Robeson became one of America's most controversial figures during the Cold War. Hailed by many as a forerunner of the civil rights movement, he was denounced by others and seen by the U.S. government as a threat to the nation's security at home and abroad. Now for the first time there is an illuminating, firsthand view of this remarkable.".
• catalog description "His grandparents. Brown's discovery of how William Robeson escaped to freedom and gained academic excellence is one of the many aspects of the Paul Robeson legend told here for the first time.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-176) and index.".
• catalog description "Information from other sources, Brown provides a well-paced narrative of Robeson's life from his birth in Princeton to the budding of his artistic career in Harlem. Because Robeson always attributed his achievements to the guiding hand of his slave-born father, the Reverend William D. Robeson, Brown traced Robeson's ancestral roots to North Carolina, where he found and interviewed cousins of Robeson as well as descendants of the family that had owned Robeson's father and.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. I got a home in-a that rock -- 1. An African American -- 2. William Robeson : a star to follow -- 3. Princeton : the South up North -- 4. Happy Black boy -- pt. 2. Li'l David -- 5. High school : the fledgling hero -- 6. Rutgers 1 : a long ways from home -- 7. Rutgers 2 : "Othello of battle" -- 8. Rutgers 3 : "This noble son" -- 9. Rutgers 4 : "To help the race" -- 10. Harlem, Morningside Heights, and points west -- "On my journey now."".
• catalog extent "xx, 186 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Young Paul Robeson.".
• catalog identifier "0813331773 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0813331781 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Young Paul Robeson.".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press,".
• catalog relation "Young Paul Robeson.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "782/.0092 B 20".
• catalog subject "Actors United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Biography.".
• catalog subject "E185.97.R63 B76 1996".
• catalog subject "Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 Childhood and youth.".
• catalog subject "Singers United States Biography.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. I got a home in-a that rock -- 1. An African American -- 2. William Robeson : a star to follow -- 3. Princeton : the South up North -- 4. Happy Black boy -- pt. 2. Li'l David -- 5. High school : the fledgling hero -- 6. Rutgers 1 : a long ways from home -- 7. Rutgers 2 : "Othello of battle" -- 8. Rutgers 3 : "This noble son" -- 9. Rutgers 4 : "To help the race" -- 10. Harlem, Morningside Heights, and points west -- "On my journey now."".
• catalog title "The young Paul Robeson : on my journey now / by Lloyd L. Brown.".
• catalog type "text".