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Peoria&#8217;s City Council was responding, in part, to the investigation of Robeson by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a major arm of political McCarthyism through the early-1950s.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Tribune,<\/em> Robeson was offered a smaller performance venue, Peoria City Hall, for his cancelled concert slot. Drawing on the fighting language of World War II, Robeson accused the city council of &#8220;fascist techniques.&#8221; The <em>Tribune <\/em>put a Cold War spin on Robeson&#8217;s word choice: it\u00a0noted that Robeson&#8217;s charge of fascism was\u00a0&#8220;often hurled at political opponents of communists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Tribune reported that a Peoria performance by black singer Paul Robeson was cancelled after \u00a0the Peoria City Council moved to ban the appearance of &#8220;any speaker or artist who is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,157,235,9,24],"tags":[162,146,124,145],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1946-52","category-robeson-blackballed-in-peoria","category-a-more-lonely-crusade","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-anti-communism","tag-paul-robeson","tag-segregation","tag-the-american-legion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Peoria Bans Robeson; He Vows to Sing - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/04\/18\/peoria-bans-robeson-he-vows-to-sing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peoria Bans Robeson; He Vows to Sing - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chicago Tribune reported that a Peoria performance by black singer Paul Robeson was cancelled after \u00a0the Peoria City Council moved to ban the appearance of &#8220;any speaker or artist who is an [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/04\/18\/peoria-bans-robeson-he-vows-to-sing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1947-04-18T21:42:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-09T18:08:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/BRP.Cover_1-e1416970637481.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"179\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chamelion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chamelion\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/04\/18\/peoria-bans-robeson-he-vows-to-sing\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/04\/18\/peoria-bans-robeson-he-vows-to-sing\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chamelion\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/#\/schema\/person\/013e0ae5fbcae0912cf92c7dca1e6145\"},\"headline\":\"Peoria Bans Robeson; He Vows to Sing\",\"datePublished\":\"1947-04-18T21:42:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-09T18:08:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/04\/18\/peoria-bans-robeson-he-vows-to-sing\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"keywords\":[\"anti-Communism\",\"Paul Robeson\",\"segregation\",\"The American Legion\"],\"articleSection\":[\"1946 &ndash; 1952: Reformers on the March\",\"3. 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