Paul Robeson Speaks! 1958 KPFA Radio Interview
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- Paul Robeson Speaks! 1958 KPFA Radio Interview. Paul Robeson covers a wide range of subjects, including his views on socialism and the Soviet Union, African liberation, and his personal history being born the son of a man born into slavery. Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler of Pacifica Radio are the interviewers. February 8, 1958.
Love you! I am fortunate to have one grandparent left that led me to this great man.
I’m so very happy that this audio still exists!
Comrade Paul.
RIP Brother.
I am so disappointed about how many people here on Britain and all over it seems do not know about the life and stature of this man. I get this impression from people I have met and it has been compounded by seeing how few people have logged on to information provided here on CZcams. This is despite the recent BLM world awakening today. I am white but he has always been my hero and I don't use that word lightly. Not only one of the greatest black men in the world but just the greatest man. I am a white person by the way. Sorry to have to say that because colour should not ever matter. Unfortunately it still does. His life should be on the school curriculum instead of some other historical figures. It would teach children so many things of utter importance for the advancement of humanity.
This has been a problem of mind for years, that people form other countries relate to Britain as a whole. where four Nations , Paul Robeson is celebrated in wales, today is the 5th October a mile stone in our history. many people in porthcawl and Pontypridd will be celebrating he was political activist in wales and scotland for the miners and from miners around the world. even in England if your working class. All great singers of the world come to wales to sing at the Eisteddfod. what other singer would sing another's National Anthem, be it in English, but what an honor. czcams.com/video/ziJoep1cDlY/video.html&feature=share& fbclid=IwAR2VVyQo_W3r1SD8FB51w-2EHvrc7fyV9trRweVy6_lClXkVcfqI0yGkAAA
Today 22/10/20 I listened to an hour long programme on whold bbc radio on this great man. Then I googled and read much more about this great African American thus also ended up listening to this rich radio interview.
Indeed love you from Africa special Somalia and we are all human
Welsh and Scottish coal miners remember. If only in family lore.
@@marysalisbury9270Canadian coal miner's families also
His accomplishment are astounding and 30 years before MLK. He could have kept quiet and enjoyed fame and fortune- accepted the consequences of his activism and the many problems it brought him. His importance has been erased or has faded. He was a genius, and a hero.
AN AMAZING MAN WHO STOOD UP FOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD !!!
May this legend rest in peace
We need a major movie biopic of Paul Robeson. One of America's greatest citizens.
the problem is there's no one who could pull it off. He's that one of a kind.
Wow what a voice! More back kids should know about this genius of a man. Paul Robeson was not only an entertainer activist but also an intellectual
Thank you for making this wonderful eloquence available to us. This man, alone, shows what courage, clemency and human decency can be...his story should serve as a beacon for all our young people.
One of the greatest heroes of the American people. Our Paul!
BIG UP RESPECT !!!!
And one of the smoothest voices ever lived as well !
Probably of all the people on Earth. Truly a great man.
Not just American
In Wales, he's ours. :-) He was the world's.
I'm listening to this in 2020 during the covid_19 pandemic. An inspiration of a man. I am English and I can see why the Welsh and Scottish loved him so much. The memory of this man should be honoured in America. RIP
Paul Roberson repeatedly pointed out the hypocrisy of equality in the United States of America. There were those who attempted to silence him. I am going to study this man and his works further.
@@misteralvinstone me too! I find it ESPECIALLY ironic to hear his truths about ussr in his testimony, see as America still hates them.
At the age of 80 years I have just discovered the greatest hero of all time . O how we need him now. May your God give you the honour you deserve. May you be remembered forever. Tom
I recommend Martin Duberman’s authorized biography of Paul Robeson. I had the privilege of working on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit on behalf of Duberman to gain FBI files on Paul Robeson that was part of the research for this biography. Robeson was a pictue of courage and integrity and should be studied in every American history class. He should be someone tht every person in our world knows about. He fought for civil rights when it was dangerous, he stood with labor unions around the world and for freedom movements around the world.
He was my Welsh fathers hero. It took me along time to understand why? What a man!!! What a story!!!! Thank God for CZcams, and the history it preserves for us to be able to accsess easily. The quality of this interview is amazing.
Mr Robson was a democratic socialist, humanist and used his enormous gifts for the benefit of all peoples,rest in peace
Thankyou I'm going to find this .
you can also visit the home of Paul Robertson in Philadelphia Pennsylvania or send donations for the preservation of the Paul Robeson house ...
How far did you get with the CIA documents?
He is one of the greatest examples of how the human spirit can prevail against opposition.
This man was powerful as hell, you can even hear it in his voice
Hes got such a distinctive voice, I could seriously hear this man read audio books with this voice
Oooh yes voice of a lion
Wow , what a voice, what a man , what a mind , what courage, perfection.
love his diction and eloquent use of words
I was called after Paul Robeson, This great man made such a big impression with my parents over this standing with miners and quarry man and the colonised repressed. they tried to erased him from popular history. But part of him will always be with me.
I could listen to this Interview on repeat for *hours* because i love his voice so damn much
I could listen to that voice reading a telephone directory! He was a big man in every way.
fuck....imagine growing up with a father that was held in bondage, and your surname given to you by slavers. it is such a gut punch i can't help wonder what i would have done, and frankly im scared of the answer.
Rest in Power Mr Robeson, your legacy lives on
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I wish I had a next-door neighbor like Paul Robeson.
The more I learn about him the more my interest and respect grows.
#TOONLYHAVEATIMEMACHINE
Keep his autobiography next to your pillow or Bible or Quran. He then is a good guest in your home to learn lot of courage, wisdom and strength to bring about a change in society , which is for the better.
AMAZING MAN, PAUL ROBERSON! Thank you to Pacifica Radio for keeping people like Paul Roberson ALIVE!!!
Cristy Maizterra he's Paul ROBESON, not Roberson. He wasn't a robber just as you are not Cristy Maizterrorist.
The line he changed from old man river “I keeps laughing, instead Olof crying, I must keep fighting until I’m dying” has kept me alive. I have to fight for humanity, it’s selfish to give up because the world look bleak
What a truly courageous and AMAZING black man ! My father loved him!
As though he is still alive: The clarity of his speech, his focus, his commitment, his articulation - This is a wonderful interview and I am always grateful to know more about Paul Robeson. He speaks of his son, his daughter-in-law, his wife, his education, his travels, his singing engagements and how the government was constantly/ repeatedly attempting to impede, impair and curtail...but he was not, he never made remarks in a defeatist tone. Just as I had imagined that he would be in his older age. I heard many of his comments from recordings when he was younger nad he was written about quite a lot back when. Thank you for the upload.
Brilliant man.
Paul Robeson, a great theatrical voice and a singer an actor. A very articulated man. He was a great activist. 1898 - 1976 RIP.
A true Renaissance man, in every sense of the word. Just maybe the best the human race has ever witnessed.
Robeson is truly one of the great speakers of the 20th century.
MY...WHAT A GREAT U.S. PRESIDENT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN.
I like his voice.
Wow, so timely. Even today this would be a current events conversation. Amazing!
My inspiration
He sang beautifully!!! No other voice as powerful as his!!!!!!!!
How the Black Live Matter movement could do with someone of Robeson's calibre right now. Remarkable character. In his interviews we can all see that very little has changed since his day.
An inspiring great man. His struggle for justice continues.
That voice though...
Paul Robeson has a very commanding voice
One of my heroes...the great paul robeson ....
my grandad met him 🎀
Wow
Amy, you touched me, thank you. I'm his niece, by his wife, my aunt Eslanda. Her brother, and my father, Frank Goode followed them, in Dec.1934, inspired by their praising Russia. My father had lived in the UK for over a decade, and he loved to travel. Little did he know - his travels, and his freedom stopped right then. He accepted the invitation to work for Rus. sports, for the time the Robesons toured the world, and longer, while the family ( including my grandmother, also Eslanda) settled in the UK, where PR played Othello, for 8 years. Father was trapped, treated somewhat as a celebrity, but stripped of his US passport by KGB. My father was a very deep, widely educated man, inspired and humbled by his kin. He was committed to not endanger Paul's situation by his "collaboration"with the SU. He chose to live distantly from Moscow, not to participate in anti Amer. propaganda. He declined to join the CPSU, but had to accept the Soviet citizenship. He watched carefully, that our mutual residing in Moscow during summer 1958, as his travels to Moscow every time the Robesons visited the SU - were unnoticed by press. I remember us leaving the Metropol hotel after them, in the same direction, to his concert in Luzhniki, sitting not as guests, but as regular audience. At night, in a hotel, PR with me on his lap, sang to me "sleep, my baby, my curly headed baby...". After my father's death in 1967, I, then a student, was "advised" to not continue corresponding with my cousin Paul Jr. There wasn't a chance to disobey - the letters wouldn't pass the "iron curtain" anyway. Only in 1988, at the US Embassy the Embassador announced that the time had changed, and I, as a daughter of the good Am.citizen, and a niece of a true Amer. hero P.Robeson - could claim my Amer. citizenship, even though dual citizenship was not allowed by the Soviet Constitution. He showed me the agreement between the US and Soviet gov. of M.Gorbachev to allow "children of Americans, who lived and died in the SU to carry dual citizenship".
The rest is history. I've been living in the US since. Now I had to be quiet, in the 90s. I went "to visit", and never returned. They kept my position for me for 4 years ( I worked at one of the most ideological, first international Peoples'Friendship University). Any confession and sharing in media could hurt my family and close friends in Russia. I was open only with my students and faculty at Lincoln Univ., where I taught for 9 years. One of my courses was "Afr. Amer. international experience,".
I'm retired now, and have been hiding from the crazy Corona situation in the US - in the far corner of Turkey. No, I didn't know better in March, going for 2 wk vacation. With mandatory self-isolation, return ticket cancelled, airports in lock down - I ended up just sitting here and waiting. And time just crolls. The pandemic isn't about to go down. I can't believe I've become a resident of T., had to apply after 3 months.
I hope to have entertained you. With PR only son's death it's only his childless granddaughter Susan. The great line will end. I was happy to see, that my brilliant aunt, to whom PR was much obliged for love, wise, sober management adding to development of him into what he became - was finally recognised in full sense of the word. And she, through her beloved brother Frank ( brother John died childless), has me, her niece and namesake (at some periods - a spitting image of her), and my son, her grand nephew, and his 3 children, her great-grandnephews and g.grandniece. Not blood related to great PR, they'll carry the family legend farther.
This man told the real truth to a corrupt and racist congress committee that accused him of been communist.My respect for him and his family.
Thank you for having his magnificent conversations available to us. Hearing his comments and his presence of mind to the disgusting and shameful HUAC is inspiring. Thank you.
Robeson was a proud Communist. You can find his testimony which was magnificent, on youtube.
Don't forget Hoover!!😡
I wouldn't call Paul Robeson a communist. I would call him a humanist ....
@@ANKHRASET Nah, mate, he was an avowed communist, and all the better for it. I know it's a dirty word for some, but not for me and many others
Didn't know the connection between Paul Robeson and Robeson County before listening. The incident with the "North Carolina Indians we've been hearing about" was when the Lumbee defeated the KKK in January 18th, 1958 and drove them from the county all together (just 3 weeks before this interview).
A wonderful man.
I love him. He was a good man.
Blessings From The Ancestors
Wonderful!
Paul Robeson...is my fraternity brother, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity...a great man and true American patriot....
Great interview! Thank you for making it available.
One of the greatest!
My namesake!!And proud of it. Greetings from Paula
What a fascinating interview with Paul Roberson with KPFA radio. It gives one a look into the late fifties world of global white supremacy and original people who fought to support our quest to live as human beings. A very interesting look at moderators during this period, and the sterile position taken when not informed on resources Paul took to support original people. Wasn't aware Firestone controlled Liberia during this time.
Really nice speaking voice 💪
Greatest singer ever
This was recorded in 1958. It is regrettable that TODAY (2020) a black/1st Nation person living in the United States of America can express some of the sentiments and feelings that Mr. Robeson had then. Certainly the fact that no matter how accomplished you are as a black/1st Nation man/woman, you are meant to feel "less than" in a system that still promotes the philosophy that holds one man superior and another inferior.
The division you speak of has been/still is perpetrated by the Capitalist Class Against The Poor & Toiling Masses.
thank you
This is such an interesting interview. Paul is laying out the square root of injustice and problems facing African Americans in the United States at that time (which are still relevant today) yet the interviewers are more obsessed with cornering him on being a Communist sympathist.
Exactly
Holy F$&@!ng Sh&@ how have I’ve never heard of him wow.
Well so much was hidden from us
I first heard his name PAUL ROBESON , FROM the mouth of Mohammad Ali. When in an interview he said this type of persecution of minority members , is not new, Adam Clayton Powel and Paul Robeson were persecuted by this government as I am being PERSECUTED. It was then I read in details about them.
Donate to the Paul Robeson House in Philadelphia PA to preserve the history of Paul Robeson ...
Thanks for sharing!
So heroic. Love him.
A great man. All America football at Rutgers, law school grad,opera singer and activist.
All humans united under one spirit!
Wonderful interview and quality.
Thank you
Such a inspiring man an his teaching will live on.
"we need unity in order to integrate" but we integrated and never united..
We ain't even integrated really,at least in my city black people don't live near white people and white people don't live near latinos.
Re: Glenda Howell re: This interview should be played to elementary and high school students.
Yes. Most likely never will be, though. Even if it were, would the students know who he was? Who can explain the overall context to them? Come to think of it, do students nowadays stumble upon knowledge of him; are they even allowed to stumble upon knowledge at all? What I mean by my questions is that there was a time when I had never heard of Paul Robeson but I stumbled upon knowledge of him just because I knew about 1930's theater which I knew about through a sort of cultural osmosis.....there used to be a time when people just knew about this stuff....it also helped that teachers used to be able to talk about anything they wanted to.......at least mine did.
Vincent Monroe absolutely, it's so sad. I have only just found out about him and that's only by chance because an elderly man I care for, who has Alzheimer's, just happened to start telling me about his favourite singer - Paul Robeson. So I was looking for his music to play to him and am now learning about this great man.
It is necessary for the US to write Paul Robeson out of its history -- he challenges the Lies that are repeated endlessly.
It definitely is possible to stumble across him on the internet, but it doesn't seem very likely. As an example, I'm 23, into old music and left -wing politics and to my shame had not heard of him until very recently. More people need to start talking about people like Paul so this becomes much more likely
@@anabombanar You lovely lady. He was my Wesh Dad's hero, and he listened to him heaps in his last days. Very special memories.
one of the great americans; during Mccarthyism he was written out of the history books. even his photo and name as an all american football while at rutgers was delelted.
CZcams time machine is incredible.
The great Ira Aldridge daughter got him ready for the stage! Godly talented man.
Above all political values, there yet remains, Soul Power! GFOS said it best: "What we got, What we need, What we want" Soul Power! Stand Tall! Thanks Paul!
Awesome conversation.
I think speakers should listen to this black man
Paul Robeson should also be the number one Pride of Princeton university top athletes genius and valedictorian ...
Digging in the vaults of great men!
Much Appreciation.
Thank you Matthew. Thank you.
Incredibly intelligent man. What a voice.
Good stuff!
Wow !James Earl Jones sounds just like him.
Great voice
One doesn't become a Renaissance man because he wants to be. He becomes one because that was his only avenue to dignity.
very smart and a voice...0f God!
I read Here I Stand by for school at Federal City College in Washington, DC.
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A great man.
Y dont they teach us about this legend ! .
Inspirational man.
Voice of the voiceless.
What a legend
Mr.Paul
🏴Paul am byth🏴
All of us communists have our favourite comrade. This one is mine.
Paul Robeson......
A true US patriot. He showed us how unfair the United States is.
Why did he not get a British passport? The USA government would not have been allowed to confiscate it then.
That make co-host thought he would mis-frame the entire issue by stating what a French man supposedly told him. Nice try.
How come many black intellectuals,actors,actresses,dancers and other black talent were forced to look for work in Europe from 1900-1960?
Being treated like actual human beings is a good start...
Because America is a wt supemacist country that lifts up black people who somehow validate the lie of wt supemacy by being MEDIOCRE or remain silent about the egregious conditions of African descendants in North America. Artists that question and highlight the truth of America have and STILL are sent to the wilderness. I am not a performer or artist but I am a woman of African descent who was raised in the US and I left America and live in Rome. I will NEVER go back there. It's a CURSED nation built on a HATEFUL LIE
Great point and it was much easier at that time. America was like Germany in 1960.
Paul robeson labels him a communist
There are so many people in history that have done great things I will never know but at 63 at least I found out about Paul Robeson before I die YOHEWAHSHEE 🦬
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