ROBESON, PAUL

ROBESON, PAUL. Concert singer (9 April 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey; 23 January 1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Although perhaps best known as an actor and civil-rights activist, he was also renowned as a concert singer and is so discussed here. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Somerville, New Jersey, where he sang in his high-school chorus, and at Rutgers University (B.A., 1919), where he was not admitted to the college glee club because of...