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Robeson, while Secretary of Navy, allegedly took $ 320, 000 in bribes from a grain company to pay for a new vacation home.
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In the film, the last few lines of the song " Ol ' Man River " ( from Show Boat ) are sung by what sounds like a tenor, while the song was intended for bass Paul Robeson and sung in the original production by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe.
Robeson received excellent reviews and, coupled with his performance in the 1928 London production of the musical Show Boat, went on to worldwide fame as one of the great black artists of the twentieth century, while Gilpin faded into obscurity.
In 1928, while appearing with Edith Day, Paul Robeson and Alberta Hunter in the London production of " Showboat ", he married Helena Pickard.
Robeson and Allan are reunited while the last deposes Agon, the leader of the city.
The church was built in 1908 while Robeson led the congregation.
For example, the then-unknown William Warfield, who played Joe and sang " Ol ' Man River " in the 1951 film version of Show Boat, received tenth billing as if he were merely a bit player, while Paul Robeson, an established star who played the same role in the 1936 film version of the musical, received fourth billing in the 1936 film.
In his last year in office Robeson was investigated by Congress ; while no charges were made at the time, the House report was negative and historians argue that he was exceedingly careless and partisan in his role as Secretary.
Robeson lived a modest bachelor lifestyle in stark contrast to his luxurious home while he was Secretary of the Navy in the Grant Administration.
On 17 December 1951, the petition was presented to the United Nations on two separate venues: Paul Robeson, concert singer and activist, together with people who signed the petition, handed the document to a UN official in New York, while William L. Patterson, executive director of the Civil Rights Congress, delivered copies of the drafted petition to a UN delegation in Paris.
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When he assumed the role of Secretary of the Navy he was replacing Grant's Secretary for nearly eight years, George Robeson.
In a letter from the United States Secretary of the Interior responding to a Senate Resolution dated June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina was commissioned.
* George M. Robeson, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and United States Secretary of the Navy during the Grant administration.
U. S. Secretary of War George M. Robeson believed a U. S. naval resurgence was necessary and Congress hastily issued contracts for the construction of five new ironclads, and accelerated its existing repair program for several more.
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.
Robeson, as Secretary of Navy, was an industrious administrator and through his strong departmental leadership was able to contain the established Naval officer hierarchy.
Supported by New Jersey Senator A. G. Cattell, Robeson was appointed Secretary of Navy by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869 after Sec.
After Robeson resigned as Secretary of the Navy in 1877, he was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in both 1878 and 1880.
President Ulysses S. Grant appointed George M. Robeson Secretary of Navy on June 25, 1877, having replaced Sec.
During the Reconstruction Era, Secretary of the Navy Robeson arrived in Norfolk, Virginia on November 1, 1870 and he was saluted by naval warships in the harbor.
The Polaris expedition, commissioned by Secretary of Navy Robeson, was the United States first serious attempt at arctic exploration to be the first nation to reach the North Pole.
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of Navy Robeson and Hall, who was on his third arctic expedition, had lobbied Congress successfully to fund the Polaris expedition.
The Intelligent Whale, an experimental hand-cranked submarine, owned by Oliver Halstead, had been semi-officially successfully tested in 1866 by Thomas W. Sweeney, however, the U. S. Navy did nothing with the ship until October, 1869 when the ship was examined and recommended to Robeson by Cmdrs.
Robeson decided that the primary goal for the Navy was a naval resurgence program to make monitor warships that could compete with foreign navies.
Robeson was so adept at hiding his financial tracks that he was known as " the cuttle fish " of the Navy.
After leaving the Navy Department in 1877 Robeson returned to his law practice in Camden County.
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* 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
A colonial proclamation in 1773 listed the names of Robeson County inhabitants who took part in a " Mob Railously Assembled together ," apparently defying the efforts of colonial officials to collect taxes.
In 1910 Robeson moved to Somerville, New Jersey and took over the congregation at the Saint Thomas African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
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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.
As part of the agreement to star in the film, Robeson received a $ 100 per week salary plus three percent of the gross after the first $ 40, 000 in receipts.
The highly contested election loss left the embittered Robeson $ 60, 000 in debt and he was forced to sell his Washington property.
After the second committee gave a favorable review, Robeson and Halstead signed a contract on October 29, 1869 to purchase the submarine for $ 50, 000. Halstead, who contracted to test the submarine, was murdered and the testing of the Intelligent Whale was stalled for over a year.
; it found the Robeson had made deposits totaling $ 320, 000 to his bank account between 1872 and 1876.
Robeson was also suspected by a House committee to have squandered $ 15, 000, 000 of missing Naval construction funds to purchase real estate in Washington.
During the 1882 election Robeson was defeated by Democrat Thomas M. Ferrell in a bitter campaign that left Robeson financially in debt $ 60, 000 and he was forced to sell his Washington D. C. property.
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In the 1960s the surviving 8 of these 22 persons, along with many of their descendants and approximately 2, 000 other individuals in their communities participated in the process of officially organizing a Tuscarora political infrastructure in Robeson County.
The Lumbee comprise roughly one-half the state of North Carolina's Native American population of 84, 000 with a population of 52, 614, and live in Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, and Cumberland counties.
Paul Robeson stood on the back of a flat bed truck on the American side of the U. S .- Canada border and performed a concert for a crowd on the Canadian side, variously estimated at between 20, 000 and 40, 000 people.
Cole told newspapers: " There's about 30, 000 half-breeds up in Robeson County and we are going to have some cross burnings and scare them up ".
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* Tuscarora Nation One Fire Council at Robeson County, North Carolina ( formed in 2010 from several bands in Robeson County )
In 1989, the Solicitor of the Department of Interior ruled that the Lumbee Act of 1956, barred all Indians within Robeson and adjoining counties from consideration within the " Branch of Acknowledgement and Research " petitioning process.
In May 2010 leaders and individuals from the various Tuscarora factions in the Robeson County area came together to form the Tuscarora Nation One Fire Council ( TNOFC ).
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.
Paul Robeson's 1936 film Song of Freedom features a scene from the opera with Robeson singing the role of Jones.
In the late 1880s, North Carolina state legislator Hamilton McMillan discovered that his " redbones " ( those of Indian blood ) neighbors in Robeson County claimed to have been descended from the Roanoke settlers.
They gradually drifted away from their original seats, and at length settled in Robeson, about the center of the county ..."
Robeson County was formed in 1787 from part of Bladen County.
With a population of 58, 443, reflecting a 34. 5 % increase from the 1980 population of 43, 465 members, the Lumbee reside primarily in Robeson, Hoke, Cumberland, and Scotland counties.
Local excavations reveal that Native American peoples made stone tools, using materials brought to present-day Robeson County from the Carolina Piedmont.
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.
The county was formed in 1911 from parts of Cumberland County and Robeson County.
The Vernon Square campus in Islington, opened in 2001, is close to King's Cross railway station and only a few hundred yards from Dinwiddy House and Paul Robeson House, exclusive to SOAS students and owned by Sanctuary Management Student Housing.
Since World War II many Lumbee Indian families have moved northward from Robeson County and now constitute a significant element of the population that is otherwise European and African-American.
The county was created from Bladen County in 1786 by two American Revolutionary War heroes and residents of the area, General John Willis and Colonel Thomas Robeson.
* Henry Berry Lowrie, an Indian from " Scuffletown ," who, during the post-Civil War years, appropriated white Revolutionary doctrine to gain rights and freedoms that were being denied to Indians in the Pembroke area, as well as throughout Robeson County.
The borough was created in 1872, from sections of Union and Robeson Townships.
In 1987, Raymond Carr, the sole owner of Morgantown Properties, petitioned Berks County Court to create a new borough from in Caernarvon and Robeson townships.
After this, Penn State requested a new name for its on-campus post office in the HUB – Robeson Center from the U. S. Post Office Department.
In October, she received the Paul Robeson Award from Actors ' Equity.
The treaty lists 127 points ( latitude and longitude ) from Davis Strait to the end of Robeson Channel, where Nares Strait runs into Lincoln Sea, to draw geodesic lines between, to form the border.
In 1952, African-American singer and activist Paul Robeson, banned from international travel during the Red Scares, performed several concerts at the site.
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