Growth began in earnest following the construction of the Robeson Institute a co-educational school that served the children of northern Robeson County.

During its heyday, the Cotton Club served as a hip meeting spot featuring regular " Celebrity Nights " on Sundays which featured celebrity guests such as Jimmy Durante, George Gershwin, Sophie Tucker, Paul Robeson, Al Jolson, Mae West, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Langston Hughes, Judy Garland, Moss Hart, and New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, among others.

During the American Civil War, Robeson served in the Union Army as a laborer from Pennsylvania, entering in 1861 to join the effort to end slavery in the South.

George Maxwell Robeson ( March 16, 1829 – September 27, 1897 ) was an American Republican Party politician and lawyer from New Jersey who served as a Union army general during the American Civil War, and then as Secretary of the Navy during the Grant Administration.

As U. S. Representative for New Jersey, Congressman Robeson served as minority leader of the Republican Party.

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.

Robeson, actively served during the Spanish American War bombarding Matanzas, Cuba | Matanzas, Cuba on April 27, 1898.

In 1878, Robeson ran for and was elected to the U. S. Congress and served as U. S. Congressman representing New Jersey's 1st congressional district starting on March 4, 1879 until March 4, 1881.

William Drew Robeson I ( July 27, 1844 – May 17, 1918 ) was the father of Paul Robeson and the minister of Witherspoon Church in Princeton, New Jersey from 1880 to 1901.

) b. November 1881, became a physician in Washington, DC ; Marian M. Robeson ( 1894-1977 ) b. December 1, 1894, married a Forsyte and moved to Philadelphia ; Benjamin Robeson ( 1894-1966 ) b. September 1894, became a minister at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem ; J. B. Reeve Robeson ( 1886 -?

Maria Louisa Bustill Robeson ( November 8, 1853 – January 20, 1904 ) was a Quaker schoolteacher ; the wife of the Reverend William Drew Robeson of Witherspoon Church in Princeton, New Jersey and the mother of Paul Robeson and his siblings.

In 1880 William and Maria Robeson were living on Witherspoon Street in Princeton, New Jersey.

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.

Fort Greene is also home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Music School, The Paul Robeson Theater, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, UrbanGlass, 651 Arts performing center for African-American presenters, The Irondale Center for Theater, Education, and Outreach, the Mark Morris Dance Center and Lafayette Church.

The Jordan Lake State Recreation Area is divided into several smaller areas: Farrington Point, Crosswinds, White Oak, Poplar Point, Ebenezer Church, New Hope Overlook and Poes ridge along the eastern shoreline and Robeson Creek, Vista Point, Seaforth, Parkers Creek, and the Jordan Lake Educational State Forest along the western shore.

From 1907 to 1910, Robeson lived with his family in Westfield, New Jersey where he was pastor of the Downer Street Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

In 1910 Robeson moved to Somerville, New Jersey and took over the congregation at the Saint Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.

Robeson and Mary had a daughter named Ethel Maxwell, who married William Sterling, the son of British Maj. John Barton Sterling, on November 22, 1910 in Christ Church, Mayfair, England.

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

His grandson Paul Robeson, Jr. wrote that his father had pushed hard to have his eldest son Bill admitted to Princeton University, but was refused because of his African descent.

Robeson, a native of New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University at the young age of 18.

Robeson gained a scholarly reputation by having graduated from Princeton University at the early age of 18 in 1847.

Eventually, William became financially incapable of providing a house for himself and his children still living at home, Ben and Robeson, so they moved into the attic of a store in Westfield, New Jersey.

* 1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.

For example, in December 1924, actor Paul Robeson, then appearing in a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's The Emperor Jones, performed a scene from the play over New York's WGBS to critical acclaim.

They suggest that Native American refugees of other tribes, such as Tuscarora, most of whom migrated to New York by 1722, gathered in the Robeson County area and merged as a people in the early nineteenth century.

In a funeral tribute to Roach, then-Lieutenant Governor of New York David Paterson compared the musician's courage to that of Paul Robeson, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, saying that " No one ever wrote a bad thing about Max Roach's music or his aura until 1960, when he and Charlie Mingus protested the practices of the Newport Jazz Festival.

* Camille ( Barton film ), a 1926 New York / Paris madcap party film by Ralph Barton starring, among others, Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Claudel, Theodore Dreiser, Dorothy Gish, and Sinclair Lewis

While at WNBC New York, Stokes won a New York State Regional Emmy for excellence in craft, for a piece about the opening of the Paul Robeson play, starring James Earl Jones on Broadway.

While in New York, Orage and Jessie often catered to celebrities such as Paul Robeson fresh from his London Tour.

Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, and this curtailed film opportunities, focusing her to perform in New York theaters.

The American concert singer and actor Paul Robeson met Feffer on July 8, 1943 in New York during a Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee event chaired by Albert Einstein, one of the largest pro-Soviet rallies ever held in the United States.

* The Robeson Concerts: Peekskill, New York, 1949

The southern division is based in Wilmington and serves the counties of: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Robeson, and Sampson.

The finished article published by the NAACP was called Paul Robeson: Lost Shepherd, penned under the false name of " Robert Alan ", whom the NAACP claimed was a " well known New York journalist.

In the 1920s, some rural Robeson County inhabitants made contact with individual members of the Mohawk Nation, traditionally part of the Iroquois Confederacy when it was based in present-day New York.

Because of the historic determination in the 19th century by the Tuscarora Tribal Council that remnants of the people in North Carolina were no longer part of the tribe, the federally recognized Tuscarora Nation of New York contests the efforts by people in Robeson County to claim or be recognized under Tuscarora tribal identity.

As of 2010, the North Carolina bands united in the interim Tuscarora Nation One Fire Council in Robeson County ; they are organizing their government prior to seeking state and federal recognition as a separate sovereign tribe, not enrollment in the Tuscarora Nation of New York.

* Robert, Lawrence C. " The State of Robeson " New York: J. J. Little and Ives Company, 1939.

* Benjamin Congleton Robeson ( September 19, 1892-1966 ) was a military chaplain with the 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 15th New York National Guard Regiment.

During the American Civil War Robeson associated with the Republican Party and was a member of the New Jersey Sanitary Commission.

After the war in 1867, Robeson was appointed New Jersey Attorney General by Gov.

Supported by New Jersey Senator A. G. Cattell, Robeson was appointed Secretary of Navy by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869 after Sec.

George M. Robeson was born on March 16, 1829 in Oxford Furnace, New Jersey, near Belvidere in Warren County.

Robeson initially set up his law practice in Newark, but then moved his practice to Jersey City.

Robeson, however, was familiar with ocean lifestyle having grown up in New Jersey.

Robeson's political enemy, New Jersey U. S. Senator William J. Sewell, a Republican, was behind Democratic Party Ferrel's successful campaign ; as a result of the election loss Robeson moved from Camden to Trenton and established a law practice having been induced to represent the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

The election loss caused contention between his wife and family and everyone in New Jersey who knew the intellectual Robeson, called him " Poor Roby ".

Robeson is buried at Belvidere Cemetery in Belvidere, New Jersey.

The Centurion has featured cover stories on Rutgers alumnus Paul Robeson, academic freedom, eminent domain in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the secret society Cap and Skull, the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and the Rutgers College Governing Association.