Celebrating the life of Paul Robeson

[stimbox]

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Paul Robeson was an actor, singer, football player, lawyer, and civil rights activist.

[aquart]

1. With a SIZZLING screen presence.

[hisownpetard]

2. A brilliant, brave and richly gifted American hero.

My parents were two of the people who attended the concert in Peekskill where locals
threw stones through the windshields of cars and the cops stood there, a wall of blue, with
their arms folded across their chests.

[stlsaxman]

3. Paul Robeson is a gift from God to ALL of Humanity.

ps... you forgot to mention big-time Socialist.

Thank you for posting this gem of a tribute.

[NOLALady]

4. I took a look at an online bio.

An interesting remark.

"Robeson and his wife were impressed with life in the Soviet Union. They liked the improved status of women and the quality of care in the hospitals. Most of all they approved of the way that the minorities were treated in the country. He later wrote that in the Soviet Union he had felt "like a human being FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE I GREW UP. Here I am not a Negro but a human being. Before I came I could hardly believe that such a thing could be. Here, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, I walk in full human dignity."
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArobeson.htm


Seems like Michelle Obama plagiarized Paul Robeson. She should apologize for that.

BTW, Can someone tell me how to BOLD my letters?

[KatyaR]

5. Somewhere, a long time ago, I remember reading

that many blacks immigrated to the Soviet Union during the Depression(?). I don't know where I read that, and I've never been able to verify it. Maybe I dreamt it. :boring:

[stlsaxman]

6. use regular html tags- but in brackets [] rather than

i like it 'cause you can type all lower case and tag w/o hitting the shift key all the time.

hope this helps.