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Republican freedom fighters, Madrid, 1938.

    Black and white photo of Paul Robeson singing with freedom fighters at the Madrid battlefront in 1938. Robeson is seated in the lower-left corner of the image beside a man playing a guitar.

    Paul Robeson with freedom fighters at the Madrid battlefront. Sometimes under artillery and machine-gun fire, Robeson visited the shifting battlefronts to bolster the fighting spirit of the Republicans and their communist allies with his songs.

    1938
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    Publicly accessible
    Attribution/Credit

    “Robeson, Paul,” University of Michigan Library Digital Collections, accessed from https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/scl/x-lpf.0966/lpf0966, 10 January 2022.