j ,- CIVIL RIGHTS JOUR AL_.. ................ rs r dieal in vicious campaign to d oy his image, but he nCYer b eked down, ying "I am a r dieal and I am going to stay o e until my people get free to the earth.· < Paul Robeson i unsurpassed heroi c figure in the annals of African American history. Hi granddaughter, Susan Robeson, has masterfully cap- tured the esse ce of his genius in the boo The Whole World In His Hands: .A Pictorial Biog- rtlphy 0/ Paul Robeson (Ci del, 1981). _ In this utifuI boo filled p ogra biogr phieal sketch and excerpts from his speeches, she remind us: "Some here in each d everyone of u a ray of my grandfather's light shines. Fiad that light and let it shin�