First visiting the Soviet Union in 1934, he was so enamored of the country he had his son educated there.
He was an all-American on the Rutgers University football team, and pursued a career in law until a white stenographer refused to take dictation from him. First visiting the Soviet Union in 1934, he was so enamored of the country he had his son educated there. Though he would later become disenchanted with the anti-semitic purges of Stalin, he defended the country in Paris in 1949, prompting a violent riot at a concert he gave in Peeskill later that year. FTP name this great African American activist and baritone, famous for singing Ol' Man River.
He was an all-American on the Rutgers University football team, and pursued a career in law until a white stenographer refused to take dictation from him.
Paul Robeson