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C Poet bez" NE 200-25857 a sa RR ets te TR eo ee a ae aE, oe ‘He urged those present. to see to it that’ ~ COs is *izantroor walks ‘he streets as a iree man | whenever: he ° : _ » ehooses. . oe é an » vote a é - a aa 1 7 gi ees a, at dom sighs oo fate Pe . | “The informant: stated that ROBESON ' s we talk was glearay anti-United States Government with . emphasis on criticism of President EISENHOWER and Pepi advised on - _ Seoretary of State DULLES. AD at the affair nN honor of PAUL SON held at peed the Par kway Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, on April ~: ee ee “15, 1958, PAUL ROBESON spoke and reaffirmed his 2. 00) 7! intention of continuing his fight for his people and wr for his passport. He urged all present to fight for =... °F their rights as individuals in spite of the fact that . many fighters for Negro rights were falsely labeled : Communists. ROBESON stated that he Tooked forward “~-to the time when people like CLUADE LIGHTFOOT vould ~~" "7" “walk the streets a free man. He stated that LIGHTFOOT a and his followers were not trying to overthrow the... . Bovernment but were simply. sengeine tor the rights 2 ee ess of the Negro people, ; = 2 1 : oR UE. ae “a ROBESON deplored ‘the political : FE ae attitude where free people were denied the right to hold the political | bellet of shetr own choice. . Spewteten