He knew W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Carl Van Vechten, Lena Horne, W.C. Handy, Mirian Anderson, Leontyne Price, Cab Calloway, Leadbelly, Joe Louis, Carl Sandburg, Willa Cather, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. And they knew him as well.
Also Fidel Castro. He went to Cuba in the spring of 1961.
Hey! How much you want to bet he was part of that school trip! He was a teacher at Mercer Island School! That school was part of the Student Travel Club that took trips to Cuba!
Malcom X was there in 1961. Fidel met with the black community in Harlem to recruit them in 61.
I wonder if Obama is actually a ‘little younger’ vs. ‘a little older’.
I wonder if that 1961 Cuba trip Paul Robeson took is what got his passport pulled?
Robeson became known as a citizen of the world, as comfortable with the people of Moscow and Nairobi as with the people of Harlem. Wherever he traveled, Robeson championed the cause of the common person. Among his friends, he counted future African Leader Jomo Kenyatta, India's Nehru, anarchist Emma Goldman and writers James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway.