Paul Robeson, Jr.
| Paul Robeson Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 2, 1927 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 26, 2014 (aged 86) Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, historian |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University (1949) |
| Spouse | Marilyn Paula Greenberg (m. 1949) |
| Children | 2 |
Paul Robeson Jr. (November 2, 1927 – April 26, 2014) was an American author, archivist and historian.
Robeson was born in Brooklyn to entertainer and activist Paul Robeson and Eslanda Goode Robeson. As his family moved to Europe he grew up in England (visiting the St Mary's Town and Country School in London) and Moscow, in the Soviet Union. In Moscow he attended an elite school. The Robesons returned to the United States in 1938 to live first in Harlem, New York, and after 1941 in Enfield, Connecticut. Robeson graduated from Enfield High School and attended Cornell University where he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1949.
Robeson worked on the legacy of his father, published two books about him, and created an archive of his father's films, photographs, recordings, letters, and publications. As an advocate for social and racial justice he shared the political views with his father indicating that "like him, I am a black radical". He was married to Marilyn Greenberg in 1949; the couple had two children, David (died 1998) and Susan, and one grandchild.
Robeson died of lymphoma in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 2014.
Robeson maintained on many occasions that his father "never joined the Communist Party or any party for that matter -- he was an independent artist and would never submit to any kind of organizational discipline."
On his own politics he stated: "I was much more an organized political person", he said, adding that from about 1948 to 1962, he was a member of the Communist Party. "It was an instrument, a radical instrument that could help advance the interests of African-Americans. It helped build the early civil-rights movement and independent trade union movement in the 1930s, '40s and '50s." He said he left the party in 1962 after "it became bureaucratic and corrupt".
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