Dr. Ken Morgan | 4/9/2021, 6 a.m. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Common Creatives
Paul Robesonâs birthday, (April 9, 1898) ignites a unique spirit in me. Robesonâs name remains underground with a black mark through it in the annals of history even today.
Robesonâs Somerville High School prowess in Princeton provided an inkling of why he now characterizes the moniker as the twentieth-century Renaissance man. He excelled academically, becoming the class valedictorian and winning a statewide scholarship to Rutgers University. In the arts, he sang in the choir and performed in Julius Caesar and Othello. As an athlete, he lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and track.