{"id":580,"date":"2002-08-21T16:43:02","date_gmt":"2002-08-21T23:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/08\/21\/580.html"},"modified":"2002-08-21T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2002-08-21T23:43:02","slug":"paul-robeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/08\/21\/paul-robeson\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Robeson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The name \"Paul Robeson\" recently came up for the second time this week, so I figured I should find out a little more about him.  Haven't had time to do more than skim various articles, but I'm fascinated; he had an astonishing life.  Robeson's father was a former slave; Robeson himself (born 1898) went to Rutgers, where he was a football star and graduated at the top of his class; he turned down a pro athletic career to attend law school at Columbia; after he got his law degree, he became an actor and singer, drawing tremendous acclaim for roles on stage (<cite>Othello<\/cite> in London and on Broadway) and screen <cite>(Show Boat)<\/cite> as well as for concerts in which he performed black spirituals.  And then, in his mid-30s, he became an ardent leftist and political activist; in 1950, his passport was taken away because he refused to swear that he wasn't a member of the Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>I won't go on, but if you want more, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rutgers.edu\/robeson\/main.html\">Robeson timeline at Rutgers<\/a>, or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.lib.nj.us\/robeson\/\">Robeson site at the Princeton public library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The name &#8220;Paul Robeson&#8221; recently came up for the second time this week, so I figured I should find out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}