Native Land (1942)

The last of the Paul Robeson: Portraits of an Artist set that I hadn’t seen yet, this film only contains Robeson as an off-screen narrator and singer alongside various dramatizations detailing numerous attacks on the Bill of Rights, particularly against workers and unions. While being a somewhat dry pro-union piece with some of the dramatizations being overly long, it’s an interesting artifact enumerating Anti-American activities committed by people with power and fits well in displaying Robeson’s years as an activist.

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