Editing Paul Robeson (section)

===''Here I Stand''===
While still confined in the U.S., Robeson finished his defiant "manifesto-autobiography" ''[[Here I Stand (book)|Here I Stand]]'', published on February 14, 1958. John Vernon noted in ''Negro History Bulletin'' that "few publications dared or cared to review it—as if he had no longer existed".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Vernon |first=John |journal=Negro History Bulletin |volume=63 |number=2/3 |date=April 1999 |jstor=24766680 |title=Paul Robeson, the Cold War, and the Question of African-American Loyalties |pages=47–51}}</ref> In a preface to the 1971 edition, Robeson's friend and collaborator [[Lloyd L. Brown]] wrote that "no white commercial newspaper or magazine in the entire country so much as mentioned Robeson's book. Leading papers in the field of literary coverage, like ''The New York Times'' and the ''Herald-Tribune'', not only did not review it; they refused even to include its name in their lists of 'books out today'."<ref>{{cite book |title=Here I Stand |last=Robeson |first=Paul |page=x |others=Preface by Lloyd L. Brown |year=1971 |orig-date=1958 |publisher=Beacon Press |lccn=70159847}}</ref> Brown added that the boycott was not in effect in foreign countries, for example, ''Here I Stand'' was favorably reviewed in England, Japan, and India. The book also received prompt attention from the [[African American newspapers|African-American press]]. The ''[[Baltimore Afro-American]]'' was the first to champion the merits of Robeson's autobiography. The ''[[Pittsburgh Courier]]'', ''[[Chicago Crusader]]'', and the Los Angeles ''Herald-Dispatch'' soon followed suit. The [[NAACP]]'s magazine, ''[[The Crisis]]'', was more critical in its appraisal.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=Lloyd L. |title=Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner |chapter=Robeson's ''Here I Stand'': The Book They Could Not Ban |editor1=Freedomways |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Company |year=1978b |location=New York |pages=151–156 |isbn=978-0396075455}}</ref>