Born in 1898, son of an escaped slave and a freeborn African American woman from the North, Paul Robeson grew up to become an all-star college athlete in the early 1900s and 1920's, an accomplished, famous singer and actor in the 1930's and 1940's, and an outspoken, blacklisted civil rights activist until his death in 1976. This picture book biography spans Robeson's varied career, always focusing on small events that reveal the daily injustices experienced by Robeson and African Americans of the time. Realistic watercolor illustrations complete this portrait of an activist whose life and career is a rich legacy to those committed to social justice in contemporary times.