This is a biography of one of the most significant black figures in American history.;A brilliant scholar and athlete, he became world famous as a singer and actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Othello in the 1944 Broadway production and for his best selling recording of "Ol' Man River".;Robeson achieved notoriety through his political activities - a father of the civil rights movement, he campaigned for racial equality in America and was active internationally in struggles against Fascism. His commitment to socialism made him a prime target for the McCarthyite witchhunts of the 1950s and the FBI waged a campaign of vilification against him. Robeson was to spend his old age plagued by illness virtually in exile.;Professor Duberman, who has had access to the 50,000 items in the Robeson archive, describes detail Robeson's often complex and unorthodox personal life, his stormy marriage and the inner turmoils of his enigmatic personality.

Paul Robeson

Duberman, Martin Bauml

Biographies & Memoirs

Pan Books

Passionate, enormously talented, and, at times, seemingly larger than life, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography, reissued by The New Press, offers a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality.

Arts & Literature

London: The Bodley Head

In White America

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Signet

From slave ship to ghetto riots - what it has meant, for two centuries, to be a black man.

This is a collection of documentary material and a selection of previously uncollected essays, speeches and reviews by the historian and gay activist, Martin Duberman. Part One contains rare documents from the past two centuries tracing the lives and opinions of both our gay and our homosexual ancestors. Part Two has been extensively revised and includes six new articles published as recently as 1991, covering such topics as coming out, bisexuality in the ancient world and reform in the gay rights movement.

About Time: Exploring the Gay Past

Literature & Fiction

Plume

A noted historian and leading gay activist describes his personal struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his search for a therapy that could transform him into a "normal" man

Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey

The definitive history of the Stonewall riots, the first Gay Rights March, and the LGBTQ people at the center of the movement. On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of submitting to the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he recreates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine into an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first Gay Rights March of 1970, the roots of today's Pride Marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.

Stonewall

History

Americas

A noted historian and leading gay activist describes his personal struggle to come to terms with his homosexuality and his search for a therapy that could transform him into a "normal" man

Dutton Adult

Uncompleted Past

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Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson

In White America

In White America

In White America

About Time: Exploring the Gay Past

Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey

Stonewall

Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey

Uncompleted Past