Robeson, Paul

ROBESON, Paul, Black American singer, actor (b 1898, Princeton, NJ; d 1976). Trained as a lawyer, he instead became a singer, actor and black-listed political activist. He began appearing on stage in the early 1920s, winning stardom in Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones in 1925. In the 1930s he began appearing in films, notably Sanders of the River and Showboat. His powerful bass singing voice captured the suffering and defiance of the American Black experience. Following WWII his outspokenness in...

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