Paul Robeson
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Paul Leroy Robeson ( ROHB-sən; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was a star athlete in his youth. He also studied Swahili and phonetics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1934. His political activities began with his involvement with unemployed workers and anti-imperialist students whom he met in Britain and continued with support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War and his opposition to fascism. In the United States he became active in the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice campaigns. His sympathies for the Soviet Union and for communism, and his criticism of the United States government and its foreign policies, caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
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Paul Leroy Robeson 9 April 1898 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
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23 January 1976 (aged 77) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Aries |
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Eslanda Robeson 1895-1965 · American anthropologist, author, actor and civil rights activist · m. 1921
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