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[Robeson, Paul - Telephone Conversation]

Item number (ISN):

319675

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1952-01

Item number (ISN):

319675

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

BERNSTEIN, Jack

Accession:

2000-0058

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1952-01

Description:

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In August 1950, the United States State Department cancelled the passport of Paul Robeson following his refusal to sign an affidavit in which he would pledge under the Smith Act that he was not a communist. Two years later, in January of 1952, Robeson was invited to the International Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union of British Columbia to address their annual convention in Vancouver. As American citizens did not, by law, require a passport to travel to Canada, Robeson agreed to attend. He was stopped at the border, however, with the threat of a five-year jail sentence and a ten-thousand-dollar fine. U.S. border patrols were further instructed to stop him by any means necessary. Robeson resigned himself to address the meeting by telephone.~This recording documents Paul Robeson's address to the International Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union of B.C. by telephone. The recording begins with Robeson singing Joe Hill, a song about a martyred radical labour organizer. Robeson then speaks of imbalances of power, equality of rights, the struggle of the colonized, the rights of free speech, the struggles of working people in all countries, respect for the family, his father, one's principles and beliefs, the Vancouver Coal Miners Union, and the Canadian peace movement. In closing Robeson recites a poem for peace by Pablo Neruda, a fugitive from Chili. <9mn>

Language:

English

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1. Title and description obtained through audit and additional research.~2. No production credits are listed in recording.~3. Off-air recording by an unknown source.

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Vault ISN:

364729

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2000-0058/1

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DISC

Stock:

TRANS

Technical description:

ALUM

Duration:

10:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

862021

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2017-11-0003

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

DVD

Made from:

2000-0058/1

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

862023

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

319675-2000-0058-1.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

2000-0058/1

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

862024

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

319675-2000-0058-1.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

2000-0058/1

Status:

REF
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A1 2017-11-0003

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