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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Harry Belafonte 1927-2023
Harry Belafonte in 2013.
Photograph: Damon Winter The New York Times
Harry Belafonte on His Artistic Values and His Activism In interviews and articles in The New York Times, Mr. Belafonte, who died on Tuesday, spoke about the civil rights movement and his frustration with how Black life was depicted onscreen. NYT April 25, 2023 1:28 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Harry Belafonte in 2013.
Photograph: Damon Winter The New York Times
The Harry Belafonte Speech That Changed My Life NYT April 25, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Belafonte with Dr Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King in Alabama
Belafonte was mentored by both Martin Luther King Jr and Paul Robeson. He bailed King out of a jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and helped organise the march on Washington that culminated in King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech
Photograph: Ivan Massar AP
Smash hits to civil rights: Harry Belafonte – a life in pictures The singer, actor and activist, who has died aged 96, became the first artist to have a million-selling album – and said his desire for social change kept him awake at night NYT Tue 25 Apr 2023 17.19 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2023/apr/25/
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Photograph: Jacob Harris Associated Press
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Same photo > caption in The Guardian
At a civil rights rally on West
38th Street, New York City, 1960 Belafonte spent his life fighting for a variety of causes. He bankrolled numerous 1960s initiatives to bring civil rights to Black Americans; campaigned against poverty, apartheid and Aids in Africa; and supported leftwing political figures such as Cuba’s Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez
https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2023/apr/25/
Mr. Belafonte and his wife, Julie Robinson, during a civil rights event — the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom — at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1957.
Photograph: George Tames The New York Times
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Early in his career, Mr. Belafonte befriended the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and became not just a lifelong friend but also an ardent supporter.
Dr. King and Mr. Belafonte at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem in 1956.
Photograph: via Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Performing at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 1956.
Photograph: Al Lambert Associated Press
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Mr. Belafonte with Ed Sullivan in 1955. At a time when segregation was still widespread and Black faces were still a rarity on screens large and small, Mr. Belafonte’s ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic.
Photograph: Associated Press
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
Harry Belafonte, alongside Ed Sullivan, signs autographs for fans outside CBS Studio 50 in New York City, circa 1955.
Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Island Man How Harry Belafonte's Caribbean roots helped him change America NPR December 29, 2023 5:00 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/29/
Dorothy Dandridge and Mr. Belafonte in a scene from the 1954 film “Carmen Jones.”
Photograph: 20th Century Fox
Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights. NYT April 25, 2023 Updated 10:40 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/
"I said I'd help him in any way I could": Belafonte and Martin Luther King, backstage at Madison Square Garden.
Photograph: Courtesy of Harry Belafonte
The Radical Entertainment of Harry Belafonte Oct. 21, 2011 The New York Times The Radical Entertainment of Harry Belafonte
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/
Harry Belafonte 1927-2023
(Harry Belafonte) was also a stalwart of the civil rights movement who seems to have helped organize or fund just about everything, including Freedom Summer, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the 1963 March on Washington, the cultural boycott of apartheid-era South Africa and the 1985 charity fund-raiser megahit “We Are the World.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/
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