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J. Herskovits Papers; Ira Aldridge Collection
    PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Records of New Brunswick Presbytery
    PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Sylvia Beach Collection; Otto Kahn Papers
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES: assorted Paul Robeson-related material
    SCHLESINGER LIBRARY, RADCLIFFE: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers; Margaret Cardozo Holmes interview
    SMITH COLLEGE, SOPHIA SMITH COLLECTION, WOMEN’S HISTORY ARCHIVE : Ella Reeve Bloor (“Mother Bloor”) Papers
    SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS : Herbert Marshall Papers
    STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, WISCONSIN : Eugene and Peggy Dennis Papers Syracuse university: Earl Browder Papers
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS : R. Golding Bright Papers; Oral History interviews with Edwin Lester and Ed Biberman; Ralph Bunche Papers; George Johnson Film Collection
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST: W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, BANCROFT LIBRARY : Noel Sullivan Papers
    UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, LABADIE COLLECTION: Maurice Brown/Ellen Van Volkenburg Papers
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, RANSOM HUMANITIES CENTER: Maxwell Anderson Papers; Frank Harris Papers; Alfred and Blanche Knopf Papers
    YALE UNIVERSITY: James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters; Laurence Langner Papers; Eugene O’Neill Correspondence; Gertrude Stein Correspondence; Theater Guild Papers; Carl Van Vechten Papers
    Additionally, a number of people have given me access to privately held manuscript material:
    Peggy Ashcroft (ms. memoir)
    Cedric Belfrage (Belfrage-Peggy Middleton correspondence)
    Maimie Neale Bledsoe (ms. memoir and speeches)
    Leonard Boudin (files on Robeson passport case)
    A’Lelia P. Bundles (ms. letter)
    Revels Cayton (ms. letter, biographicar materials)
    Tim Couzzens (Robeson materials in William Ballinger and Winifred Holtby Papers)
    Gertrude Cunningham (Nathan F. Mossell papers)
    Lloyd L. Davies (ms. letters, reminiscences)
    Freda Diamond (ms. letters)
    Paulina Forsythe (ms. letters to Robeson during the dozen years, 1965–76, when he lived with her and her mother, Marian Forsythe, in Philadelphia)
    Milton Friedman (court briefs)
    Walter Goldwater (ms. letters)
    Nina Goodman [Mrs. Ben Davis, Jr.] (ms. letters)
    Rupert Hart-Davis (ms. letters)
    Marie Jones (ms. letters)
    Corliss Lamont (ms. letter)
    H. A. Murray (ms. letters)
    Kay [Mrs. Aubrey] Pankey (ms. letters)
    Juliet [Mrs. Malcolm] Pitt (ms. letters)
    Paul Robeson, Jr. (hospital records; book manuscripts (“With Malice Toward One,” “Gideon’s Journey”); Washington, D.C., FBI files)
    Clara Rockmore (Rockmore-Robeson correspondence)
    Helen Rosen (Rosen-Robeson correspondence)
    Junius Scales (ms. memoir)
    Marie Seton (ms. letters, book ms.)
    Louis Shaeffer (interview notes)
    Anita Sterner (tapes and transcripts of three dozen interviews for 1978 BBC program on Robeson)
    Leonora [Pat] Gregory [Stitt] (ms. memoir and draft of book started with Robeson)
    Studs Terkel (tape of others reminiscing about Robeson)
    Nancy Wills (ms. memoir)
    A number of people I corresponded with added further to the stock of primary materials through their anecdotes and personal recollections of Robeson (as well as by providing leads to others with firsthand accounts). In this regard, I owe special thanks to Kathryn Cavan Avery, Paul Avrich, Edward Biberman, Charles L. Blockson, George Breitman, Harry Bridges, Bob Cohen, Malcolm Cowley, Millia Davenport, Michael H. Ebner, Veit Erlmann, Kim Fellner, Bernard Forer, Joseph Gould, James Frederick Green, Judith Green, John Devereux Kernan, Ralph Kessler, David Randall Luce, Luretta Bagby Martin, Ruth C. McCreary, Jim Murray, Paul G. Partington, Robert Richter, Naomi Rogers, Irene Runge, Stanley Schear, Athene Seyler, Harry Slochower, George Spector, C. A. Tripp, Jules Tygiel, Mrs. William A. P. White, Nancy Wills, and Jane Wright.
    Finally, additional documentation about Robeson was secured