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(THEATRE.) ROBESON, PAUL. Here I Stand. 128 pages. 8vo, original cloth in a price-clipped dust jacket, which has some slight toning to the rear panel and some offset from the dust jacket to the front free end-paper; blind-stamp of a private collection on the front free end-paper. London: Dobson, (1958)
the true first edition, preceding the american, signed by robeson on the title-page. Robeson's autobiography and defense of his political position. "As I see it, the challenge to the Negro people in the United States can be stated in two, propositions: 1. Freedom can be ours, here and now: the long sought after goal of full citizenship under the Constitution is within our reach. 2. We have the power to achieve that goal: What we ourselves do will be decisive." Robeson never quite regained his stature amongst Americans after the smear campaign of Senator Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings earlier in the 1950's.
