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Paul Robeson — Part 22

137 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Mar 10, 1948 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Paul Robeson · 136 pages OCR'd
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NY 100-25857 In the "Daily Worker" issue of October 30, 1947, it was reported that ROBESON on the previous day, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, protested to FRANCIS B. SAYRE, United States representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Comittee, the vote of the United States against India's resolution on the Southwest Africa question. The vote in the Trusteeship Committee was on Indiats motion requiring South Africa to give its old League of Nations mandate over Southwest Africa to the United Nations Committee by the next General Assembly. The "Daily Worker" issue of November 4, 1947, contains a picture a. on page 16 of ROBESON and LARRY PARKS, the accomoanying news item reporting that ~t TAPRY PARKS obtained the signature of PAUL ROBESON on Civil Rights Congress etifiocn demanding the end to the House Un-American Activities Committee, Be ARKS is described es ster of the motion picture "The Jolson Story". o/i L Confidential Informant n furnished the New York Office with a list of thé Difectors and Directors~at-Large of the now defunct GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER SCHOOL which had been a Comnunist Party controlled and dominated institute, The name of PAUL ROBESON appears on the list as a Director~at-Large. . c. a (Oy . : c's ie. on Novenbér 3, 1947, |] attended a Civil Kights Congress rally in the St. Nicholas Arena, 69 West 66th Street, New York City. Purpose of the rally was to open an intensive campaign against the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The afore- mentioned agents heard ROBESON sing several songs, one of which he dedicated to GERHART EISLER, and make a general attack in a speech on the House Committee for its alleged violation of people's rightse Confidential Informant Larewrt on advised that bf POBESON on November 30, 1947, attended a rele Center, New York City, sponsored by the ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE and Comite Coordinador pro Republica Espanola, Communist Party front organization, ROBESON, according 8 to the informant, spoke against racial discrimination and announced that he mee! planned to make a tour of Porto Rico in the near future, The principal a er et on arene ett Bh se ogee st
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