Paul Robeson was born April 9, 1898, in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of an escaped slave. He became arguably the most prominent African American from the 1920s through the 1950s. This work is a compilation of essays presented at a one-day conference held to honour Robeson's life and legacy

Table of Contents Foreword     Preface     Introduction     THE EARLY YEARS Childhood, Sports, and College African Americans: Childhood in Slavery, Childlike in Freedom…and Paul Robeson as Child and Parent     Paul Robeson: Rutgers Phenomenon     Something to Cheer About: Paul Robeson, Athlete     Robeson the Athlete: A Remembrance     The Political Struggle A Man of His Times: Paul Robeson and the Press     Out of the Shadows: The Political Writings of Eslanda Goode Robeson     Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson: Athletes and Activists at Armageddon     Paul Robeson, Peekskill, and the Red Menace     Remembering Peekskill, USA, 1949     Paul Robeson, Freedom Newspaper, and the Korean War     Music, Film, Theater A Dream Betrayed: Paul Robeson and the British Film Industry     Paul Robeson and Classical Music     “A Symbol, Representing My People”: Marian Anderson’s Way, Not Opposed to Paul Robeson’s     “You Know Who I Am!” Paul Robeson’s Ballad for Americans and the Paradox of the Double V in American Popular Front Culture     When Paul Robeson Sang to Me     Legacies “Americans Through Their Labor”: Paul Robeson’s Vision of Cultural and Economic Democracy     Paul Robeson: Icon or Hero?     Expanding the African-American Studies Curriculum: “Paul Robeson: An American Life”     Paul     About the Contributors     Index