Why did Paul Robeson (Rutgers College, class of 1919) become a civil rights leader and a labor activist?

Write a 2-page double-spaced response paper based on your viewing of Paul Robeson: Here I Stand that answers these questions: why did Paul Robeson (Rutgers College, class of 1919) become a civil rights leader and a labor activist? How did communism shape his politics? Why did his career suffer by the late 1940s and 1950s? Why did Robeson remain steadfast in his beliefs? (have to watch a one-hour movie)