R. James
Ruth Jett
Howard Eugene (âStretchâ) Johnson
Barney Josephson
Alfred Katzenstein
Ursula Katzenstein
Larry Kerson
Ari Kiev
Bernard Koten
Joseph Lederer
Harold Leventhal
Elma Lewis
Jay Leyda
Marian Liggins
Diana Loesser
Sanford Meisner
Herbert Marshall
Josephine Martin
Carl Marzani
Jan Mason
Ivor Montagu
Chuck Moseley
H. A. Murray
William Mutch
Richard Nachtigall
Kay (Mrs. Aubrey) Pankey
Sam Parks
Graham Payn
Theodora Peck
Thelma Dale Perkins
Morris Perlmutter
Rose Perry
William Pickens III
Sidney Poitier
Martin Popper
Louis Rawls
Edward Rettenberg
Milton Rettenberg
Jim Richards
Alan Rinzler
Marilyn Robeson
Paul Robeson, Jr.
Earl Robinson
Robert Robinson
Flora Robson
Clara Rockmore
Ted Rolfs
Helen Rosen
Norman Roth
Rose Rubin
Annette Rubinstein
S. A. Russell
Bayard Rustin
Homer Sadler
Antonio Salemmé
G. Foster Sanford, Jr.
Junius Scales
Sylvia Schwartz
Pete Seeger
Jean Seroity
Marie Seton
Sadie Davenport Shelton
Robert Sherman
Frederick Shields
Julius Silverman
Ruby Silverstone
Abbott Simon
Anita Sterner
Michael Straight
Alexander Taylor
Studs Terkel
Edith Tiger
Chatman Wailes
Ruth Walker
Fredi Washington (Bell)
Elizabeth Welch
Aaron Wells
Rebecca West
Monroe Wheeler
Mrs. Harry White
Henry Wilcoxon
Doxey Wilkerson
Aminda Badeau (Mrs. Roy) Wilkins
Addie Wyatt
Asa Zatz
In addition, I have had access to Paul Robeson, Jr.âs interviews with: Peter Blackman, Bruno Raikin, and Marie Seton; and to Anita Sternerâs interviews (done for a 1978 BBC program on Robeson) with: Tommy Adlam, George Baker, Frank Barnes, Alfie Bass, Alan Booth, Dave Bowman, Lord Brockway, J. Douglas Brown, May Chinn, George C. Crockett, Jr., OssieDavis, Ruby Dee, Leonard de Paur, Dai Francis, John Gerstadt, Leo Hurwitz, Emlyn Jenkins, Roderick Jones, Armina Marshall, James Monk, Mrs. Northcote, Will Paynter, âPrinceton Old People,â Philip Stein, Phillip Thomas, Rachel Thomas, André Van Gyseghem, Otto Wallen, Charles Wright, Ellsworth Wright, Coleman Young.
Manuscript Sources
(other than the Robeson Family Archives)
AKADEMIE DER KÃNSTE DER DDR, PAUL ROBESON ARCHIV : assorted manuscript letters, first-person reminiscences of Robeson, extensive newspaper and photo collection.
AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: Fredi Washington Papers; Countee Cullen Papers
CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Claude A. Barnett Papers
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Robert Minor Papers; Oral History Research Office (some two dozen pertinent interviews including especially those done with: Charles Ascher, Eric Barnouw, A. Philip Randolph, William Jay Schieffelin, Carl Van Vechten, Roy Wilkins, and Henry Agard Wallace); Paul Robeson Law School Records
COUNTWAY MEDICAL LIBRARY, HARVARD: Louis Wright Papers
DUSABLE MUSEUM, CHICAGO: Metz Lorchard Papers; Margaret Burroughs Papers
FDR LIBRARY, HYDE PARK: Eleanor Roosevelt Papers
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL HISTORY, AMSTERDAM : Emma Goldman Papers
KURT WEILL FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC: Weill/Eslanda Robeson Correspondence
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: Nannie H. Burroughs Papers; NAACP Papers; Mary Church Terrell Papers; Margaret Webster Papers
MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER, HOWARD UNIVERSITY : Bustill-Bowen-Asbury Collection; E. Franklin Frazier Papers; George Murphy Papers; William L. Patterson Papers; Jessica Smith Papers; Jacob C. White Collection
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, MANUSCRIPT DIVISION: Paul Kester Papers; Vito Marcantonio Papers; Joel E. Spingarn Papers; Carl Van Vechten Papers
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, SCHOMBURG COLLECTION: Lawrence Brown Papers; Civil Rights Congress Papers; Melville J. Herskovits Papers; Alberta Hunter Papers; National Negro Congress Papers; Papers of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters; Pettis Perry Papers; William Pickens Papers; Paul Robeson Collection; Arthur Schomburg Papers
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, WAGNER ARCHIVES : Actorsâ Equity Association Records
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: Melville