Harry Belafonte, the actor, producer and singer who made calypso music a national phenomenon with “Day-O” and used his considerable stardom to draw attention to civil rights issues and injustices around the world, has died at the age of 96
— who found inspiration in such figures as Eleanor Roosevelt and Paul Robeson — helped round up celebrities for the Freedom March on Washington in 1963, when Martin Luther King. delivered his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.
, a Kennedy Center honoree in 1989, also was active in efforts to end apartheid in South Africa and to release Nelson Mandela.acceptance speech. “Along with the trophy of honor, there is another layer that gives this journey this kind of wonderful Hollywood ending. To be rewarded by my peers for my work for human rights and civil rights and for peace — well, let me put this way: It powerfully mutes the enemy’s thunder.”. was born in the New York on March 1, 1927.
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