Abstract
In the annals of popular American history, Paul Robeson is not generally looked upon as a significant player in black liberation discourse. However, close examination of Robeson’s newspaper column, “Here’s My Story,” supports the idea that Robeson helped conceptualize and orchestrate what became the Civil Rights Movement of the late-1950s and early-1960s. His forefather status should be rehabilitated and re-acknowledged in American pedagogy and popular memory.