Pauline L .......... let's get fact straight ......... I have read two biographies about Paul Robeson and in neither was it stated with such certainty as you do that he was "an avowed communist". He may have had sympathies with Communist theory but as far as I am aware was never a member of the Party.

My father twice took my elder brother to see Paul at the free Trade Hall in manchester, late 50's/ early sixties, such was demand that seats were put on the stage. My father told me that Paul on the second occasion recognised my brother (who was very young at the time)from his first visit and spoke to him at during the preformance and signed autographs, now sadly lost

Just this morning before logging on I got my guitar out and sand "Just a wearyin' for you" to myself, still singing the man's music after all these years