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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: 30. Chapters: Paul Robeson, Ray Neal, Brooke Brewer, Frank Moran, Charles Fremont West, Fritz Pollard, Jimmy Robertson, Bob Nash, Al Jolley, Al Pierotti, Al Nesser, Bruno Haas, Paul Sheeks, Dutch Hendrian, Guil Falcon, Tuffy Conn, Elgie Tobin, Paul T. Hogan, Art Corcoran, Pike Johnson, Budge Garrett, Scotty Bierce, Walt Jean, Dutch Speck, Walt Kreinheder, Dick Stahlman, Frank McCormick, Charlie Copley, Sol Butler, Al Michaels, Eddie Sauer, Giff Zimmerman, Frank Niehaus, Bill Edgar, John Barrett, Carl Cramer, Ed Shaw, Art Garvey, Fred Sweetland, Tillie Voss, Chase Clements, Dutch Wallace, Dunc Annan, Wayne Brenkert, George Berry, Jim Flower, Tommy Tomlin, Russ Bailey, Buck Miles, Marty Conrad, Grover Malone, Rip King, Russ Blailock, Stan Mills. 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 Robeson's lead film roles as being the first to display dignity for black actors and pride in African heritage. Though one of the...
