The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide. Located at 515
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
NYPL Former 135th Street Branch, Manhattan
Schomburg Center
World War II-era WPA poster promoting use of the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library (Federal Art Project 1941–43)
Paul Robeson
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Paul Leroy Robeson was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
…slavery, abolitionism, and the West Indies, and letters and unpublished manuscripts by Langston Hughes. It includes some papers from Christian Fleetwood, Paul Robeson (restricted), Booker T. Washington, and Schomburg himself. It includes musical recordings, black and jazz periodicals, rare books and pamphlets, and…
Robeson in 1942
Robeson in football uniform at Rutgers, c. 1919
Robeson's birthplace in Princeton, New Jersey
Fritz Pollard (left) and Robeson in a photo from the March 1918 issue of The Crisis