Harry Belafonte, who died Tuesday at the age of 96, was an activist long before he became an artist, he once said.
His political consciousness was shaped early on by the experience of growing up poor, the son of a Jamaican mother who worked as a domestic servant. During the civil rights movement, he used his star power to fight against injustice, raising money for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. cofounded and led. He helped bail out activists who had been jailed and helped organize the 1963 March on Washington.
Instead, the marchers met with tear gas and clubs and killing and Kent State and an intensification of the Vietnam War. It is not what we had fantasized at the beginning. I have not abdicated but, as I say, I am more cautious now about how I go about things.” ‘This should be over’ In 2017, Belafonte discussed in The New York Times how police killings and attacks on voting rights made him feel discouraged by the state of civil rights in the country. “When I took up with Martin,” he said.
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