Paul Robeson in Czechoslovakia: all culture comes from the people

The Civil Rights Movement in the United States sent ripples around the
world, not least in the Soviet Union and its satellites. In Czechoslovakia,
events were followed closely, as the struggle for the rights of African
Americans became a weapon in the ideological battles between East and West.
Czech Radio’s archives house several recordings of Civil Rights
activists, who visited Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989 or were
interviewed at home in the United States. One was the singer, actor and
activist Paul Robeson, who came to this country several times. Working with
journalism students from the Anglo-American University in Prague, David
Vaughan looks back to Robeson’s celebrated but controversial visit to
Prague at the end of the 1950s.