We now bring you another pioneering voice for civil rights — the voice of Paul Robeson — actor, singer, and scholar. He was blacklisted in the 1950’s for his political activism, but as this 1958 interview at Pacifica station KPFA reminds us, his powerful voice was one that refused to be silenced.
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