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

A biography of American entertainer and political activist Paul Robeson.

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.

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 2019 Washington Post -Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Her numerous books for children include the Newbery Honor Book BOX: Henry 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 , illustrated by Eric Velasquez. Carole Boston Weatherford lives in North Carolina. 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.