This is wrong too.
Many, many people - in all walks of life - believed that democratic capitalism was fatally flawed during the'30s and large numbers of them turned to the Left towards communism and socialism, or to the Right towards fascism and Nazism.
What made Robeson different, what singled him out, was that he was a black man protesting against white domination. Too many in today's right prefer to forget that and instead focus on the failure of his (Robeson's) proposed solutions...and by the way, what was so great about Lindberg? He was just another pilot, just another courageous guy. Why don't you insist that he be forgetten if politics trumps everything.
This is off-topic but since you continue to focus on Robeson I thought I'd clear it up.
For the record, Paul Robeson was a favorite son of Rutgers (my grad school) and a poster was put up in the faculty lounge promoting some or other Robeson-named event. There was an angry remark written on the poster regarding Robeson's activities. Probably written by a student of one of Rutgers' more prominent professors who is very active in human rights, is Jewish and escaped a particularly unpleasant version of Communist oppression.
to the Right towards fascism and Nazism.
BTW, I will argue with this characterization, not so much with the first, but with the last. Hitler's nationalism was important, but he infused it with run-of-the-mill leftist socialism. But I won't argue the point further.
What made Robeson different, what singled him out, was that he was a black man protesting against white domination.
OK, that too. The point was, his political bent has served as part of the marketing of his legacy (posthumously and without his active participation, of course).
and by the way, what was so great about Lindberg?
Well, he risked his life making the trans-Atlantic trip and he had done something no one else had done. That's what history remembers. Now if Robeson were the first person to put words to music . . .