Description: Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of Paul Robeson (1898-1976), the All-American football player, Phi Beta Kappa Rutgers College graduate, who became a world-renowned actor, singer, and motion picture star, and America's first African American politically-engaged performing artist. Coming to maturity during the Harlem Renaissance, Robeson starred in Eugene O'Neill's plays, sang spirituals in concert houses throughout Europe, headlined three productions of Othello, and created enduring roles in such movies as The Emperor Jones (1933), Song of Freedom (1936), and The Proud Valley (1940). But Robeson was also an African American who reacted against negative representations of blacks in his films Sanders of the River (1935) and Tales of Manhattan (1942) by criticizing racism in the media and ultimately refusing to make more films.

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