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Outspoken Paul Robeson, ahead of his time: a one-man show

A biography of American entertainer and political activist Paul Robeson.

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Main Author:	Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors:	Velasquez, Eric (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Robeson, Paul, > 1898-1976 > Juvenile nonfiction. Actors > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Singers > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Political activists > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. African Americans > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Biographies > Juvenile. Picture books.
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Summary:	A biography of American entertainer and political activist Paul Robeson.
Physical Description:	44 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (page 44).
ISBN:	9781536212976 1536212970
Author Notes:	Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author and poet, was named the 2025 Children's Literature Legacy Award winner. She was also named the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book Box: Henry Box Brown Mails Himself to Freedom, illustrated by Michele Wood; the Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , illustrated by Floyd Cooper; the Robert F. Sibert Honor Book Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement , illustrated by Ekua Holmes; and the critically acclaimed Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library and Outspoken: Paul Robeson , Ahead of His Time , both illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in Maryland. Eric Velasquez is the award-winning illustrator of Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library , by Carole Boston Weatherford, which received a Walter Dean Myers Award and a Golden Kite Award, and ¡Mambo Mucho Mambo! The Dance That Crossed Color Lines by Dean Robbins. He has also won a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award and a Pura Belpré Illustrator Award. Eric Velasquez lives in Hartsdale, New York.