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Born in 1898, Paul Robeson was the son of a runaway slave. He was the only black
student to try out for the Rutgers University football team. In response, the other players
beat him up and pulled out his fingernails. He bore the abu8e to prove his worth. He not
only graduated at the top of his class, but had been an All -American, the top honour for a
university football player, twice. Within four years after graduation, he was one of the best
-known actors and singers in the United States. Yet because he was a black man with
strong political beliefs, he was forced to spend much of his life in England, and when he
did return to the United States, his passport was
taken away.
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