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1. MURCST_200418_04.JPG: “Living Timeline: Paul Robeson” by Cory L. Stowers and Andrew Katz, 2015. Dedicated to the life of American actor, singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. This long mural has multiple "stations" that take visitors through Robeson's remarkable life. The mural was funded by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities.
2. MURCST_200418_08.JPG: "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child" Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was the son of William Drew Robeson a runaway slave and Maria Louisa Bustill, daughter of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family. Maria died tragically in a fire when Paul was six years old. In 1915 Paul won an academic scholarship to Rutgers where he was the third African American to enroll and the only one there during his time. He excelled scholastically with acceptance into Phi Beta Kappa and being elected class valedictorian. He also excelled in athletics earning varsity letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. In his junior and senior years he was selected first team All American in football.
3. MURCST_200418_11.JPG: Living Timeline: Paul Robeson, (c) 2015 Cory L. Stowers and Andrew Katz Funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Program
4. MURCST_200418_14.JPG: "I make no separation between my work as an artist, and my work as a human being."
5. MURCST_200418_23.JPG: "No More Auction Block For Me" Robeson met his future wife Eslanda Cordoza Goode while at Columbia University (1919-1923) where he received a law degree. His interest in law took a decisive turn when a secretary refused to take dictation from him because of his race. He left the practice of law to dedicate his talent and focus towards a career in the performing arts. His first major artistic endeavor was to promote Black Spirituals which he did with the first ever concert comprised entirely of works produced by African American composers.
6. MURCST_200418_29.JPG: "Old Man River" Paul Robeson is cast as the stevedore Joe in the musical Showboat, music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Robeson sings the show's most memorable song "Old Man River" which he would later change the lyrics to become a song of resistance and perseverance. Hammerstein: "Ah gets weary/ and sick of tryin; Ah'm tire of livin'/ and skeered of dyin':" Robeson sang: "But I keeps laffin'/ Instead of cryin'/ I must keep fightin';/ Until I'm dyin'"
7. MURCST_200418_35.JPG: "Wade in the Water" Paul Robeson approached the role as Brutus in the Emperor Jones as one of the greatest challenges of his early acting career. The forceful drama compelled him to look deeper into his own interpretation of dramatic roles and their contribution to art and culture. He declared that the only original American culture was that which came out of the African-American experience. His career begins to move at an unprecedented pace for an African American yet he's confronted by segregation and Jim Crowism with every step.
8. MURCST_200418_41.JPG: "Stand By Me" Eslanda Cardozo Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson was the grand daughter of Francis Cardozo the first African American to hold a Statewide office in the United States. The Cardozo Education Campus located at 13th and Clifton St. NW Washington, DC is named after Francis Cardozo who served as South Carolina's Secretary of State during reconstruction. "Essie" was an astute manager of Paul's artistic career until her death. She was also a partner with Paul on their condemnation of lynching and racism in the United States and colonialism abroad. "I should like the continent (Africa) to become a zone where no foreign military bases are allowed. I should like this to be paralleled with an ideological truce and an agreement not to try to convert Africa into an economic appendage of any other continent.
9. MURCST_200418_47.JPG: "Joshua Fit De Battle Of Jericho" Paul Robeson Jr. (November 2, 1927 - April 26, 2014) was Paul and Essies only child. He was born in Brooklyn, NY and as a young boy lived with his grandmother in Moscow where his parents sought to protect him from American racism. He attended school with the daughter of Joseph Stalin. He admired his father, shared his political views, and for more than twenty years served as his fathers personal aid. "I follow in my father's cultural tradition, and like him, I am a Black radical."
10. MURCST_200418_57.JPG: "Othello" "Soft you. A word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know 't. No more of that I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice." –William Shakespeare Paul Robeson's 1943 Broadway performance in Othello set the record for the longest running of a Shakespeare play on Broadway with 299 performances.
11. MURCST_200418_68.JPG: "All Men Are Brothers" Paul travelled the world using his art as his weapon to fight against oppression and for self determination for all people. His home turf and land of his birth was not off limits as he marched with others to advance the cause of civil rights and workers rights. He took his message of freedom and justice to the White House to petition the President to introduce anti-lynching legislation. He never failed to answer the call from those in need of his celebrity to advance their cause even risking great danger by visiting the front lines and hospitals with his wife Essie during the Spanish civil war. "Every artist, every scientist, must decide now where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights. There are no impartial observers." -– Paul Robeson
12. MURCST_200418_74.JPG: "Scandalize My Name" Paris Peace Conference April 20, 1949: "It is unthinkable that the Negro people of America or elsewhere in the world could be drawn into war with the Soviet Union" Paul Robeson. Before Robeson even spoke in Paris a distorted version of his comment was published in the media instigating an outpouring of ill will and hostility towards the man a few months early had been exalted as the worlds greatest and highest paid performer. Now he was being called an "enemy" of the land of his birth and "traitor" to his country. In 1950 Robeson's passport was revoked preventing him from traveling to resume his concert and acting career. In the following 12 months 85 of his concert bookings were canceled and this persecution by the FBI and US State Department continued for many years.
13. MURCST_200418_83.JPG: You can see one of the signs had been removed on the right.
14. MURCST_200508_05.JPG: Location: 2420 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE (This building was demolished) Donated By: MLK Grocery Artist(s): Cory L. Stowers Year: 2016 (This is an update from the original)
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