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. . . oO not wa f * a wee May 9, 1947 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED , PAUL ROBESON = HEREIN IS UNOLASSTESED.- peat Reckground | ne , | hot mo for 1946 and soar" has the roitowing sec data “ @ B . @ 5 & f He is a concert singer and an actor. He was born at Princeton, Hew Jersey, om April 9, 1898, the son of William Drew Robeson and Anna Youlasa (Bustill), He recelved his A.B. degree at Rutgera Collegé in 1919, and LL.B. from Columbia University in 1923, an honorary L.H,D. at Henilton College in 1940, an honorary ELLA, at Rutgers University in 1952, an hon- orary L.H.D. at Noorehouse College, 1945, and an honorary doctor's degree in Humane lotters at Howard University in 1945, He marriod Eslanda Cardoza - Goode on August 17, 1921. We has one son, Paul Robeson, Jr. From 1923 a until the present time he has appeared in numerous ‘stage plays. He isa . menber of the Phi Beta Kappa, the Alpha Phi Alpha and Sipma Tau Delta frae “'- ternities, Robeson was a four-letter man while at Rutgers Univoraity and .“~ as ’ was pioked by Walter Camp on his All-American football team as an end, His C5 nt hom is in Enfield, Connecticut. He gives his New York eddress as, in care of Robert Rookmore, 10 East 40th Street, New York, ‘New York. : The Current Blographyfor 1941, on ‘Page TT, has the » following to aa aE way concerning Robosont pare i . “The racial problem is one that Robeson hes studied thoroughiys ; ; Tt was racial discri:ination as much as his own acting ability that caused : . him to give up his career as a lawyer, He sent his son to school in the a USSR because he thought the boy could grow up normally theresssseancee cH® frequently speaks out on political issues in which he feels his race is oo deeply involved, In the sunmer of 1940, he was opposing conscription, — - speaking for peace, later urging all Negroeg in industry to join the United : Automoblle Workers of America in their Ford organising drive, even later speaking and singing at Jbonef hts to aid Britain, ( China and the Soviet Union. He was called e radioal,® . i Aotivitics dn “Gonnestion with Various Communist Front Or enieations mo A Tie Novenber 4, 1937, issue of the tbatly Torker," alleced official rein PUbLoation of the Communist Party, carried an artiole {in which Robeson was — La. = quosed ap saying, “When I step on to # stage in the future, I go on as ao ii —pepresontative of the working class, J work with a consciousness of that . ‘Ree —-drmy mind,* 100-12304-7= page 12 “4 ot ir. = kr. er. ir. ir. el oT kr . br. Bean “er i ir ir ir Xr qa : — The "Daily Worker" of May 16, 1959, on pace 1, pointed out that as . : tendo Robeson in an interview had stated that there was no discrimination in “sh Bin “"govtet circleg and that his son, who attended school in Russia, recta a 4 be Gandy pelle there. 100-12504-7, page 1 prac $2, ef - aa > u ne ct a San ee er ae t drm > ' FEMeunie