Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson and Hattie McDaniel in Show Boat (1936), production still. Courtesy Margaret Herrick Library.

Eslanda Goode Robeson (standing), Paul Robeson (center), and Lawrence Brown (right) in Big Fella (Great Britain, 1938), production still. Courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL.

Dark Sands (Great Britain, 1937), theatrical release poster

Paul S. Henderson (photographer), Paul Robeson (second from left) and members of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP protest the racial segregation of Ford’s Theatre, 1948. Courtesy Maryland Center for History and Culture Library.