Prime examples Where in my edit to I call him the greatest Where WHERE That s YOU reading into his achievements as offered by the history itself My opinions as a fan are not in there in laudatory language Stuff that was dramatic is now long gone or will be gone You are claiming that I say in the article that he began it all and towers over everybody else WHERE I don t You are making things up I mention the groups and the people he worked alongside as well but as this hugely famous person he stepped away from performing and became a full time activist Overstate what He was as great and renowned athlete of the day as Pollard or Thorpe Are you now negating reams of history and rewriting it too Where do you have this right You don t Ok here we go again That HUAC went after Communists and little after those other groups might have something to do with the fact that the Cold War involved a Communist empire not a Nazi one The Cold War also involved brutal lynchings Jim Crow intimidation of blacks and union members of all races civil liberties violations and segregationist leadership and members of congress not to mention world wide human rights abuses rape of resources thefts colonialist thievery ethnic calseasing of people of color on four continents Some called for the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan to be interrogated by the HUAC Martin Dies however was a supporter of the Klan and had spoken at several of its rallies Other members of the HUAC such as John Rankin and John S Wood were also Klan sympathizers Wood defended the Klan by arguing that The threats and intimidations of the Klan are an old American custom like illegal whiskey making Eventually Ernest Adamson the HUAC s chief counsel announced that The committee has decided that it lacks sufficient data on which to base a probe John Rankin added After all the KKK is an old American institution Instead the HUAC concentrated on investigating the possibility that the American Communist Party had infiltrated the Federal Writers Project and other New Deal projects I mean come on If you truly believe that HUAC went after Communists and little after those other groups beacuse it might have something to do with the fact that the Cold War involved a Communist empire not a Nazi one you have not read ANY cold war civil rights history They nver went after them WHEN we were at war The US has NEVER gone after neo nazis KKK hate groups in even a remotely close fashion dedication as they have to Leftits Non government groups and people have done the leg work for them I thank that s generalising too much It wasn t just the right that isolated Robeson in the 1950s but a broad political spectrum WHITEWASH Who and what was this broad spectrum Please Isolated FROM is not the factor while ISOLATED BY IS Apart from liberals who were scared away eventually who else was it then And who instigated his blacklisting and persecution the daily harassment and surveillances that were ceaseless that led TO the isolation itself You are reverting history no just this article I just don t want to have the basic fact that he supported whatever the details that political system to be swept under the carpet under romantic notions of socialist experiment IT IS NOT SWEPT UNDER The USSR is in there it is just not the whole article and it was an experiment when he arrived in 1934 less than two DECADES after the revolution People can make up their own minds