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Robeson, Eslanda December 15, 1895December 13, 1965 The anthropologist and activist Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson was born on December 15, 1895, in Washington, D.C. Her father, John Goode, was a clerk in the War Department. Her mother, Eslanda Cardozo, was the daughter of Francis Lewis Cardozo, a prominent pastor and Reconstruction-era politician.
1 de jun. de 2014 · Barbara Ransby has rescued Eslanda from the shadow of her famous husband and placed her in proper perspective as a black, radical female activist, a scholar, and a critic. Ransby describes Eslanda's early years and the experience that encouraged her political transformation, as well as her later years (1948–1965), when dissent was increasingly stifled and anticommunist hysteria was at an all ...
Eslanda Robeson Situated in the midst of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement in the United States, the Second World War, and anticolonial resistance in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, Eslanda Goode Robeson (1895-1965) worked as a journalist, anthropologist and political organizer to connect the political struggles for independence and freedom for oppressed people of color globally.
25 de feb. de 2014 · The first biography of the bold, principled, and fiercely independent woman who defied convention to make her own mark on the world Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin, Stalin's ...
21 de may. de 2024 · Eslanda Goode Robeson has lived under the shadow of her superstar singer, actor, and political pioneer husband, Paul Robeson for decades. However, Eslanda, known as Essie, was a dedicated activist intellectual, prolific writer, powerful orator, and world traveller.
Eslanda Robeson’s post-1945 international thought focused on women’s engagement in international politics, Third World and African American freedom struggles. Through a variety of avenues – journalism, friendships, and international travels – and in her capacity as an “insider-outsider,” Robeson was able to put into practice many of the things that she advocated.
PAUL LEROY ROBESON. Paul Leroy Robeson was a Renaissance man who spent most of his life fighting injustice, for which he was roundly persecuted. He was an actor, orator, athlete, lawyer, singer, author, scholar, activist and linguist. Most of all, the “tallest man in the forest” – he stood 6-foot-3 – was an authentic American Hero. Paul ...
