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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 118. Chapters: Malcolm X, Aaliyah, Joan Crawford, Bela Bartok, Ed Sullivan, Judy Garland, Moss Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Soong May-ling, Jerome Kern, Thelonious Monk, Basil Rathbone, Paul Robeson, Richard Barthelmess, Betty Shabazz, Preston Sturges, James Baldwin, Charles A. Beard, Lionel Trilling, Whitney Young, Mary Ritter Beard, Harold Arlen, Leopold Auer, Tommy Armour, Peter Revson, Alberta Hunter, Conrad Veidt, Irene Bordoni, Jam-Master Jay, Cornell Woolrich, Moms Mabley, Paul Althouse, Arsenio Rodriguez, Malik Sealy, Northern Calloway, Diana Sands, Toots Shor, Arthur "Bugs" Baer, Sherman Billingsley, T. V. Soong, Sigmund Romberg, Ballington Booth, Michel Fokine, Dagmar Nordstrom, Lenore Ulric, Adolph Caesar, Hugh Marlowe, Albert Austin, Judy Tyler, Raymond Walburn, David Warfield, Otto Soglow, Maud Ballington Booth, Alfred Steele, Peaches Browning, Anya Taranda. Excerpt: Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement. Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro spirituals. He was the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello in a production with an otherwise all-white cast. A nationally renowned football player from 1917 to the early 1920s, Robeson was an All-American athlete, and Phi Beta Kappa Society laureate during his years at Rutgers University. In 1923, Robeson drifted into amateur theater work, and within a decade he had become an international star of stage, screen, radio and film. Robeson was awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, the Stalin Peace Prize and honorary memberships in over half a dozen trade unions. James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte have cited ...
