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Mine Mill and Smelter Workers

Paul Robeson (right) sings "O Canada" with Willie Murphy(left), Mine and Smelter Union official from Vancouver, British Columbia, at the International Peace Arch on the international boundary between Canada and the United States, 1952.

A Voice Without Borders

How Paul Robeson sang to 35,000 Canadians without crossing the border

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