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Beinecke Library, Yale University/Van Vechten Trust Paul Robeson as Othello, 1944; photograph by Carl Van Vechten When I was growing up in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, Paul Robeson was much in evidence, on records, on the radio, on television. His name was haloed with the sort of respect accorded to few performers. The astonishing voice that, like the Mississippi in the most famous number in his repertory, just kept rolling along, seemed to carry within it an inherent sense of truth…

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