- Creator
- Actors' Equity Association. Paul Robeson Award
- Call number
- *L (Special) 90-01
- Physical description
- 19 sound cassettes, analog; 19 sound cassettes, analog
- Preferred Citation
- Paul Robeson award ceremonies collection [sound recording], Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
The Paul Robeson Award is presented annually by Actors' Equity Association to honor an individual for both artistic achievement and exemplary humanitarian service. The collection consists of recordings of the award presentation ceremonies, from 1978 to 1996. Recipients include: Sam Jaffe (1978) ; Harry Belafonte (1979) ; Alice Childress (1980) ; Studs Terkel (1981) ; Ed Asner (1982) ; John Henry Faulk (1983) ; Lena Horne (1984) ; Arthur Mitchell (1985) ; Vinie Burrows (1986) ; Joseph Papp (1987) ; Jacques D'Amboise (1988) ; Bill Ross & Dr. Margaret Burroughs (1989) ; Maya Angelou (1990) ; Gordon Parks (1991) ; The 20th Anniversary ceremony (held in 1991) ; Gil Noble (1995) ; George C. Wolfe (1996). Speakers at these ceremonies include Theodore Bikel, Ellen Burstyn, Barbara Colton, Colleen Dewhurst, Carl Harms, Nancy Marchand, Frederick O'Neal, Susan Robeson, Tom McDermott, and Stuart Hutchinson, among many others.
Key terms
Names
- Actors' Equity Association. Paul Robeson Award
- Angelou, Maya
- Asner, Edward
- Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
- Bikel, Theodore
- Burroughs, Margaret Taylor, 1917-2010
- Burrows, Vinie
- Burstyn, Ellen, 1932-
- Childress, Alice
- Colton, Barbara
- D'Amboise, Jacques, 1934-
- Dewhurst, Colleen
- Faulk, John Henry
- Harms, Carl
- Horne, Lena
- Jaffe, Sam, 1891-1984
- Marchand, Nancy, 1928-2000
- Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-
- Noble, Gil
- O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992
- Papp, Joseph
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006
- Robeson, Paul, Jr., 1927-2014
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Robeson, Susan, 1953-
- Ross, William, 1948-
- Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008
- Wolfe, George C.
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Using the collection
Location
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded SoundNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor