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![Paul Robeson: Freedom ways Tribute, on WBAI](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/17/1965Call Number: CD 287Format: CDProducers: WBAIProgram: Freedom waysCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Paul Robeson: Freedom ways Tribute, on WBAI Radio, contains event held on June 17, 1965, with Joanne Grant, emcee, narrating Robeson’s life and reading quotations from his speeches and interviews. At that event, major excerpts were played from the 1963 Freedom ways Welcome Home Tribute, when Robeson returned home after five years of traveling around the world. The 1963 event was his last public appearance. Includes the speeches of James Baldwin, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, John Lewis (Director of SNCC, Student non-violent Coordinating Committee) and Robert Nemeroff, widower of Lorraine Hansberry, reading her tribute to Robeson. Also includes recording of Robeson reciting the last speech of Othello and a recording of him singing Old Man River.
Paul Robeson’s 25-minute speech, at his last public appearance, at the Freedom ways Welcome Home Tribute, 1963.
See PR 052
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