The following is from Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson by Sharon Rudahl.

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Ballad of an American A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson

Excerpted from Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson by Sharon Rudahl and edited by Paul Buhl and Lawrence Ware, published by Rutgers University Press.

Sharon Rudahl

Sharon Rudahl

Sharon Rudahl was one of the female comic artists who contributed to the first underground comix publications of the early 1970s and was part of the collective that started Wimmen's Comix in 1972. She is the author of A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman and Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson