Using tech to overcome governmental blockages…..In 1957 Paul Robeson was not allowed to travel out of the US because of his work for civil rights…but he still performed a concert to an audience sitting in St Pancras Town Hall in London. He used the then newly laid transatlantic telephone cable.
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In 1957 the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson in 1957 performed a concert to an audience sitting in St Pancras Town Hall in London. Astonishingly, Paul Robeson was in New York at the time, and he was performing live over a transatlantic phone line. Robeson was an outspoken critic of lynching laws and anti-fascism. Because of his support of these causes, he was a victim of early attempts by the US FBI to quash civil rights activ…
