保罗·罗伯逊 （Paul Robeson，1898－1976），美国著名男低音歌唱家、演员、社会活动家。早年在穆维尔高级学校求学期间，就曾参加过莎士比亚戏剧的演出。1923年毕业于哥伦比亚大学法律系，此后一直从事戏剧演出和电影拍摄等活动。
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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.