Word: robeson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PAUL ROBESON'S historical significance consists not only in who he was and what he stood for, but in what was done to him by the American government. Robeson, in his life and work, gave meaning to the term "people's artist." He devoted his enormous artistic talents to the struggle against racism, against the McCarthyite reaction, and against imperialism. His success in his chosen careers of professional sports, film and stage acting, and singing, did not cause him to forget that his success was unique--that the overwhelming majority of American blacks, and indeed the overwhelming majority of American...
Died. Paul Robeson, 77, superbly talented and ultimately tragic singer, actor and civil rights leader who won a world fame known to few blacks of his generation and spent his last years sick, half-forgotten and, in Coretta Scott King's words, "buried alive"; following a stroke; in Philadelphia. Robeson was the son of a Methodist minister who had been a runaway slave, and a nearly blind mother who died in a fire when he was six. After excelling at his local New Jersey high school, young Robeson won a scholarship to Rutgers University, where he was elected...
...House Un-American Activities Committee in the late '40s and early '50s. The witnesses are exclusively from the Hollywood and Broadway communities and include, among others, such figures as Larry Parks, Jose Ferrer, Abe Burrows, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Slander, Arthur Miller and Paul Robeson. (Bentley seems no less inclined than HUAC to sprinkle Stardust in order to germinate publicity...
...Internal Security Committee was the direct descendant of the old House Un-American Activities Committee which was the leading force of red-baiting and repression during the intense Cold War period in the late 1940s and early '50s. It included among its victims the "Hollywood Ten," Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson, and numerous others of greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found...
...bravado that Duke Wayne loves. At 67 he is a powerful but tamed presence. Since losing a lung to cancer, Wayne has been forced to cut corners to save strength. In recent westerns he has used an apple crate to mount his horse while his veteran double, Chuck Robeson, worked overtime on camera riding...