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Harry Belafonte visited Cathy Jenkins’ restaurant in Ferguson, Cathy’s Kitchen, in August 2014 when he supported protestors during the Ferguson Uprising.
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Two prominent civil rights leaders denied any disunity in their ranks and announced that their organizations will cooperate on future projects in Atlanta, April 30, 1965. At the left is James Foreman, executive secretary of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., center, heads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Singer Harry Belafonte, right, was an objective observer. King and Foreman said they would continue to work together despite differences of opinion.
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Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge starred in the American musical Carmen Jones with an all Black cast in 1954.
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Bolstered by the hit song “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song),” Harry Belafonte’s “Calypso” is as catchy today as it was upon its 1956 debut. Drawing inspiration from calypso and Jamaican music traditions, the album made Belafonte the first artist to ever sell more than 1 million copies of an album.
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Sidney Poitier, in his directorial debut, and Harry Belafonte team up to turn the Western genre on its head in this buddy comedy, Black Power movie about an upstanding cowboy and a con artist who work together to deliver a caravan of recently emancipated individuals to their new home out west. Though not an immediate success, the film eventually found its audience.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, with iconic actor/singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte after a ceremony announcing the installation of a Nelson Mandela plaque in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park.
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Harry Belafonte arrives at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)