Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Among the residents and guests were Paul Robeson, D. C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell, Robert Weaver, Harriet Tubman, W. E. B.

Mary Robeson ( Maree Cheatham ) told Valene that she was Meg ’ s grandmother, as she was Laura ’ s biological mother.

Valene refused to believe it, and when she investigated Mary Robeson further, she was kidnapped in Florida.

When Mack sought $ 1, 000, 000 to bribe Mary Robeson to stop seeking custody of Meg, Claudia gave him $ 500, 000 and gave the rest to Nick to start a restaurant.

She appeared with Paul Robeson in the film of The Emperor Jones, and also with Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in Birth of the Blues, though neither of these were starring roles.

Crawford was influential in the early careers of such actors as Helen Hayes, Bojangles Robinson, Mary Martin, Ethel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Tallulah Bankhead, and Paul Robeson, among many others.

On November 26, 1873, Sargent married Mary Allen Robeson ( 1853 – 1919 ).

On January 23, 1872 Robeson married Mary Isabella ( Ogston ) Aulick, a widow with a son, Richmond Aulick.

Lowrie was born to Allen and Mary ( Cumbo ) Lowrie in the Hopewell Community, in Robeson County, North Carolina.

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

Robeson had three brothers, William Drew, Jr. ( born 1881 ), Reeve ( born c. 1887 ), and Ben ( born c. 1893 ), and one sister, Marian ( born c. 1895 ).

The corner is the location of 555 Edgecombe Avenue, also known as the Paul Robeson Home, a National Historic Landmark where Count Basie had also lived.

She had a featured role as Queenie in Universal Pictures ' 1936 version of Show Boat starring Irene Dunne, and sang a verse of Can't Help Lovin ' Dat Man with Dunne, Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, and the African-American chorus.

Robeson County's home guard, which included county magistrates, clergymen, and lawyers, who mainly represented the interests of the planter class ( large slaveholders were exempted from participation in the army ), had raided the farmstead of Allen Lowrie, Henry Berry Lowrie's father.

They divorced in 1948, partly due to Hagen's long-concealed affair with Paul Robeson, with whom Hagen and Ferrer had co-starred in the Broadway production of Othello.

Somerville today and historically has had an important African American community, a distinguished member of which was Paul Robeson.

Instead, the former road connecting Birdsboro to Robeson Township would be used formally as a nature trail, as it had been informally used since the time of the flood.

Once famous for its iron furnaces ( circa 1794-1927 ), the town was founded in 1855 by Henry P. Robeson, who had acquired existing iron manufacturing operations and founded the Robesonia Iron Company in 1845.

The pier formerly had a theatre at which many famous performers appeared, including Paul Robeson, Richard Tauber and Arthur Askey ( whose daughter attended a local boarding school called Upper Chine School for Girls ).

African-American performers were featured in the musical Show Boat ( which had a part written for Paul Robeson and a chorus of Jubilee Singers ), and especially all-black operas such as Porgy and Bess and Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts of 1934.

Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Lloyd Brown, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Paul Robeson, Frank Marshall Davis, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more were one-time members or supporters of the Party, and the Communists also had a close alliance with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In 1959, Faulds and his wife played host to Paul Robeson who had travelled to England to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon in Tony Richardson's production of Othello.

Robeson had only recently been allowed to travel abroad again following the revocation of his passport.

The reality was that Feffer had already been in prison for three years, and his Soviet captors did not want to bring him to Robeson immediately because he had become emaciated for lack of food.

Previously three concerts had been performed by Paul Robeson in Peekskill without incident, but in recent years Robeson had been increasingly vocal against the Ku Klux Klan and other forces of white supremacy, both domestically and internationally.

Robeson had also appeared before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to oppose a bill that would require Communists to register as foreign agents, and, just months before the concerts in 1949, he had appeared at the Soviet-sponsored World Peace Conference in Paris.

Research by historians would later show through time records that the AP had put the dispatch on the wires as Robeson was starting his speech. The comment was not investigated by the US press for its veracity and there was nationwide condemnation of Robeson.

Robeson's long time friend and Peekskill resident, Helen Rosen, who had been arranged to collect Robeson at the train station had heard on the radio that protesters were massing at the concert grounds.

Their first daughter Gertrude Lascet Robeson ( 1880 ) died as an infant, but nearly all the other children were highly successful as adults.

His father was Philadelphia Judge William H. Robeson and his mother was the daughter of U. S. Congressman George C. Maxwell, who served in the 12th U. S. Congress from 1811 to 1813 representing Hunterdon, New Jersey.

It was named in honor of Col. Thomas Robeson of Tar Heel, North Carolina, a hero of the Revolutionary War.

Col. Thomas Robeson, whom Robeson County was named after lived in the Tar Heel Community.

The City of Lumberton was created by an Act of the North Carolina General Assembly in 1787 and was named the county seat of Robeson County.

The county was named after Colonel Robeson and the land for the county seat was donated by General Willis, who is also credited with naming the county seat Lumberton.

The area was likely named for Roxburghshire, Scotland, the original home of Andrew Robeson, one of the early settlers of what is now Roxborough.

( Note: This chronology, an edited version of the author's 1983 seventy-eight page chronology in the Archives of American Art-which forms part of the collection named by the AAA " The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, 1898-1983 "-was published to coincide with the Katonah Museum of Art exhibition cited above ; it is the most comprehensively reliable source for all factual information about the artist.

* Pitt County: William Robeson, named county entry taker, seat declared vacant April 27, 1778 ; John Simpson elected to replace Robeson, took office August 8, elected to Council of State, resigned August 18 ; James Gorham elected to replace Simpson, took office January 21, 1779

By the end of the 19th century, the " Indians of Robeson County " ( as they then were named ) established schools in eleven of their principal settlements.

When the returns were canvassed, 215 votes in Robeson County were recorded for a local citizen named " Tyler York " rather than for Tyre York.

Hall named Robeson Channel in honor of Sec.

Robeson, a Lenin Peace Prize winner, has the Paul Robeson Cultural Center at Rutgers University named in his honor.