Mrs. Paul Robeson’s Unconventional Life

Paul and Eslanda RobesonApril 9, 2013 – Hour 1

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Roni EllingtonAssistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University, joins us for the segment.

We talk to Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, and Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, about her newest book Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. Individuals who donate to WEAA during this hour, at a specified level, will receive this book as a premium.