Vintage PAUL ROBESON 80th Birthday Celebration Book Detroit 1978 Charles White For Sale

Up for sale is the official program book for the PAUL ROBESON 80th Birthday Celebrationheld in Detroit in 1978. The celebration was arranged by The Afro-American Museum of Detroit* and The Paul Robeson Archives. Robeson visited Detroit many times and had many close friends in the city. The book includes decade-by-decade visuals, from the 1920s through to the 1960s. Printed in Sepia on cream paper. 45+ pages.

Cover: Reproduction of painting by Charles White - 1973**

Features

• An excerpt from Here I Stand, Paul Robeson’s autobiography, including the preface by Lloyd L. Brown
• Excerpts from “Paul Robeson” by Marie Seton
• Biographical information
• Photos from “Othello”, 1930 and 1944
• The article, “Paul Robeson in Spain” by Milton Wolff
• Excerpts from an editorial in the MUSICAL COURIER
• Lyrics from Ol’ Man River from “Show Boat” by Oscar Hammerstein (Dedicated to Robeson)
• Peekskill: In 1945 Paul Robeson and Lawrence Brown toured Europe for the United Service Organizations Inc. (USO)
• Program for the Detroit celebration and birthday week activities held in April 1978
• Excerpt from a Statement by Paul Robeson in 1964
• Poem “Ode To Paul Robeson” by Pablo Neruda, Translated by Jill Booty
• An excerpt from Paul Robeson’s recorded message to the Lawrence Brown Memorial Concert in February 1973
• Excerpt from “My Brother, Paul” by Reverend B.C. Robinson
• Quotations about Paul Robeson from C.L.R. James, Alexander Woollcott, Pandit Nehru, and W.E.B. DuBois
• List of honors received by Paul Robeson
• Birthday Greetings to Paul Robeson from Indira Gandhi, Lynden O. Pindling, Julius K. Nyerere, Michael Manley, Harvey Murphy, W. Sterling Cary, Imamu Amiri Baraka, Frederick O’Neal, Shirley Graham Dubois, Judge Raymond Pace Alexander, Eugene Carson Blake, Hobson R. Reynolds, the South Wales Miners, Arthur Ashe, Linus Pauling, Judge George W. Crockett, Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin E. Mays, J. Rupert Picott, Harry Francis, Cheddi Jagan, African National Congress, Jorge Amado, Soviet Peace Committee, Front For The Zimbabwe, Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic
• List of Sponsors

*Now known as The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, or “The Wright

**From the Eddie Chambers website: The drawing of Robeson was originally used on the cover of Salute to Paul Robeson: A Cultural Celebration of His 75th Birthday. The book was published on the occasion of Robeson\'s 75th birthday, in 1973.

FINAL SALE

No returns or refunds, please.