Paul Robeson: Life and Legacy
The son of a former slave, Paul Robeson (1898-1978) rose to become an All-American athlete, Phi Beta Kappa student, internationally celebrated singer and actor, and champion of racial equality. Yet despite his courage and any accomplishments, he could not overcome the combined effects of racism and McCarthyism, and was forced to live his last years in internal exile under FBI surveillance.
CD1: Welcoming Remarks
Keynote Address - Henry Foner
The Political Writings of Eslande Goode Robeson - Robert Schaffer
CD2: Paul Robeson: An Heroic Life - Lamont Yeakey
CD3: Paul Robeson & Classical Music - William Pencak
Peekskill, 1949 - Howard Fast
CD4: Good Americans: The Peekskill Riots of 1949 - Joseph Walwick
Black Whitman: Robeson, Hughes, Ellington and the
Double V Campaign in World War II - Kevin Jack Hagopian
CD5: Expanding the African-American Studies Curriculum:
Paul Robeson: An American Life - Paul Von Blum
Paul Robeson: A Man of the Times - Mary Cygan
CD6: Nerve and Brains: The Emperor Jones (1934) - Thomas Doherty
The British Films of Paul Robeson - Jerry Holt