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Harry Belafonte
其他書名
Vegas, Birmingham, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2015-01-13
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Political Science / Civil Rights
History / United States / 20th Century
ISBN
1101912014
9781101912010
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oxK8BQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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A participant’s portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from Harry Belafonte’s memoir of activism and entertainment,
My Song.
Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 was one of the most segregated cities in America. It had segregated lunch counters, restrooms, and water fountains. It had a nickname, “Bombingham,” for the homemade bombs detonated by local Klansmen. And it had Eugene “Bull” Connor, a racist police chief with a hair-trigger temper. It was here that Dr. King and his advisers, Harry Belafonte among them, rolled the dice on an enormous action which would rejuvenate the civil rights movement.
Harry Belafonte is one of America’s greatest entertainers and also one of our most profoundly influential activists. During the 1960s he befriended MLK and began using his celebrity in support of civil rights and other social causes. This is Belafonte’s personal story of fame, performance, and a lasting friendship. From stages in Vegas to political salons in New York, to the streets of Birmingham and letters from Birmingham Jail, Belafonte gives the reader a unique view of Martin Luther King, Jr. at one of his finest moments.
An eBook short.