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Paul Leroy Robeson was born on April 9th in Princeton, New Jersey, to Rev. William Drew and Maria Louisa Robeson. He was born into a family with 5 siblings.

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The Robesons move to Westfield after 3 years of losing their mother. At the age of 9, Paul begins attending an integrated public school for the first time.

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Paul wins a four-year scholarship to Rutgers in a statewide writing contest. He became the third African American to attend the school.

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Legendary Yale Football Coach Walter Camp puts Robeson on his All-American team; while at Rutgers Robeson will win 15 varsity letters in four sports and is a star scholar, orator, singer, and valedictorian.

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Paul makes his debut as an actor with a lead role of Eugene O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings". It wasn't easy for him though, as he made his debut he had many threats of riots.

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Despite him shriving as a new actor and singer he was placed under FBI surveillance. He was suspected of being a communist after being invited by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein to visit the Soviet Union.

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He announces that he will quit acting in Hollywood movies because of their portrayal of black people. He moves on to performing in a Broadway production of "Othello" and receives the Abraham Lincoln Medal for notable and distinguished service in human relations. He also receives the NAACP's highest honor, the Springarn medal.

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He becomes the first American to be banned TV when his appearance on "Today with Mrs. Roosevelt" is stopped under the new Internal Security Act. Labeled a communist and is blacklisted from record companies; responds by funding his own label and recording two albums.

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At the age of 70 he gets diagnosed with a bone disorder called Paget's disease.

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Paul Robeson passes away at the age of 77 in Philadelphia.