Editing Paul Robeson (section)

===1976: Death, funeral, and public response===
On January 23, 1976, following complications of a stroke, Robeson died in Philadelphia at the age of 77.<ref name="died">{{Cite news |date=February 2, 1976 |title=Died |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945524,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819174059/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945524,00.html |archive-date=August 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |postscript=; |access-date=April 20, 2021 }} cf. {{harvnb|Duberman|1989|p=548}}</ref> He lay in state in Harlem{{sfn|Robeson|1981|pp=236–237}} and his funeral was held at his brother Ben's former parish, Mother Zion AME Zion Church,{{sfn|Duberman|1989|p=549}} where Bishop J. Clinton Hoggard performed the eulogy.<ref name="Eulogy">{{Cite web |last=Hoggard |first=Bishop J. Clinton |title=Eulogy |url=http://www.paulrobesonfoundation.org/eulogy.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727170029/http://www.paulrobesonfoundation.org/eulogy.html |archive-date=July 27, 2011 |publisher=The Paul Robeson Foundation}}</ref> His 12&nbsp;pall bearers included [[Harry Belafonte]]{{sfn|Nollen|2010|p=187}} and [[Fritz Pollard]].{{sfn|Carroll|1998}} He was interred in the [[Ferncliff Cemetery]] in Hartsdale, New York.{{sfn|Nollen|2010|p=187}}

Biographer [[Martin Duberman]] said of news media notices upon Robeson's death:<blockquote>the "white [American] press ... ignored the continuing inability of white America to tolerate a black maverick who refused to bend, ... downplayed the racist component central to his persecution" [during his life, as they] "gingerly" [paid him] "respect and tipped their hat to him as a 'great American'," while the black American press, "which had never, overall, been as hostile to Robeson" [as the white American press had,] opined that his life "&thinsp;'...&nbsp;would always be a challenge to white and Black America.'&thinsp;"{{sfn|Duberman|1989|p=549}}</blockquote>