| Paul Robeson  AKA Paul Leroy Bustill Robeson
Born: 9-Apr-1898
Birthplace: Princeton, NJ
Died: 23-Jan-1976
Location of death: Philadelphia, PA
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Singer, Actor, Activist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: 20th Century renaissance man Father: Rev. William Drew Robeson (escaped slave, d. 1918)
Mother: Maria Louisa Bustill
Wife: Eslanda Cardozo Goode (pathology technician, m. 1921)
Son: Paul Robeson, Jr. (b. 1927)
High School: Somerville High School, New Jersey (1915)
University: BA, Rutgers University (1919)
Law School: LLB, Columbia Law School (1923)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
College Football Hall of Fame
Spingarn Medal 1945
Stalin Peace Prize 1953
Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey 1995
Suicide Attempt Moscow (27-Mar-1961)
Shock Treatment
Assassination Attempt
Took the Fifth (12-Jun-1956)
Cherokee Ancestry Maternal
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Tales of Manhattan (5-Aug-1942)
King Solomon's Mines (Jun-1937)
Show Boat (14-May-1936)
Sanders of the River (8-Apr-1935)
The Emperor Jones (19-Sep-1933)
Body and Soul (9-Nov-1925)
Is the subject of books:
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey 1898-1939, 2001, BY: Paul Robeson, Jr.
Author of books:
Here I Stand (1958, memoir)
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