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Paul Robeson | American singer, actor, and political activist

Paul Robeson, in full Paul Bustill Robeson, (born April 9, 1898, Princeton, N.J., U.S. died Jan. 23, 1976, Philadelphia, Pa.), celebrated American singer, actor, and black activist. The son of a former slave turned preacher, Robeson attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., where he was an All-America football player. Upon graduating from Rutgers at the head of his class, he rejected a career as a professional athlete and instead entered Columbia University. He obtained a law degree in 1923, but, because of the lack of opportunity for blacks in the legal profession, he drifted to the stage, making a London ....

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