US officials ran a multifaceted campaign to destroy Paul Robeson

Evidence

[B]eyond revoking Robeson’s passport and forbidding him to leave the continental United States from 1950 to 1957, officials of the United States government also sought to influence public opinion against Robeson; to discourage another government ‘from honoring Robeson as a great humanitarian and activist for human rights’; to prevent Robeson’s employment abroad in a non-political area; and to undermine his political impact by issuing anti-Robeson news releases, and using or soliciting statements of other black leaders to discredit him” (p. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2463

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the downfall phase of the Black radical tradition the reader is tracing; parallels COINTELPRO methods against later Black movements.
• BMF: The state campaign to destroy an individual through passport revocation, media manipulation, and solicited statements of other leaders evokes the parallel pressures on Changez in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, where intelligence agencies and public opinion converge on one man.