Paul Robeson
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Paul Leroy Robeson was an American bass-baritone concert artist, actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances
Robeson in 1942
Robeson in football uniform at Rutgers, c. 1919
Robeson's birthplace in Princeton, New Jersey
Fritz Pollard (left) and Robeson in a photo from the March 1918 issue of The Crisis
Harry Belafonte
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Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calyps
Paul Robeson
…at his brother Ben's former parish, Mother Zion AME Zion Church, where Bishop J. Clinton Hoggard performed the eulogy. His 12 pall bearers included Harry Belafonte and Fritz Pollard. He was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Biographer Martin Duberman said of news media notices upon Robeson's…
Belafonte in 1970
Belafonte with Nat King Cole in 1957
Harry Belafonte in John Murray Anderson's Almanac on Broadway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954
With Julie Andrews on the NBC special An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (1969)