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Paul Robeson with W.E.B. Du Bois

    Black and white photo from 1949. Paul Robeson stands in the foreground beside W.E.B. Du Bois. A smiling young woman and what appears to be a small bus appear in the middle ground. Robeson is markedly taller than Du Bois. Both men are wearing gray-toned wool suits and fedoras.

    W.E.B. Du Bois supported Robeson in his struggle to have his U.S. passport restored. Du Bois remarked, “He is without doubt today, as a person, the best known American on earth, to the largest number of human beings. Only in his native land is he without honor and rights.”

    1949
    Copyright
    Undetermined as reviewed by NYPL; cropped for WPCH
    Attribution/Credit

    Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Photographs & Prints Division, New York Public Library, "Alphaeus Hunton with his wife, Dorothy, Paul Robeson, and W.E.B. Du Bois”, accessed from New York Public Library Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07dba650-c5f2-012f-73a5-58d385a7bc34, 15 January 2022.