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An Evening with Friends
A Celebration of the Legacy of Paul
Robeson
Paramount Center for the Arts
Tickets 877-840-0457
www.paramountcenter.org
Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an
American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional
athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profundo
concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social
justice activism. A forerunner of the civil rights movement, Robeson
was a trade union activist, peace activist, Phi Beta Kappa Society
laureate, and a recipient of the Spingarn Medal and Stalin Peace
Prize. Robeson achieved worldwide fame and recognition during his
life for his artistic accomplishments, and his outspoken, radical
beliefs which largely clashed with the colonial powers of Western
Europe and the Jim Crow climate of pre-civil rights America.
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