保羅·羅伯遜 （Paul Robeson，1898－1976），美國(guó)著名男低音歌唱家、演員、社會(huì)活動(dòng)家。早年在穆維爾高級(jí)學(xué)校求學(xué)期間，就曾參加過莎士比亞戲劇的演出。1923年畢業(yè)于哥倫比亞大學(xué)法律系，此后一直從事戲劇演出和電影拍攝等活動(dòng)。
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After World War Two, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union became tense. In the late 1940s, Americans feared communism as a threat to their way of life. The people in the Soviet Union were denied the freedoms that Americans enjoyed. The United States joined with other nations to try to halt the spread of communism around the world. In addition, the crimes of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin became public. These included the killing of millions of people in the Soviet Union who opposed his policies. As a result, many former American supporters of communism stopped supporting the Soviet Union. Robeson, however, continued to support the Soviet Union. He still believed in the idea of communism. And he believed in friendship between the United States and the Soviet Union. A congressional committee began investigating Americans who supported communism or who were friends of people who supported it. The committee questioned Robeson. He refused to say if he was a communist. Robeson saw the questioning as an attack on the democratic rights of everyone who worked for international friendship and for equality.