TY - BOOK ID - 143460111 TI - Becoming Belafonte PY - 2021 SN - 9780292767331 0292767331 9780292729148 0292729146 PB - Austin DB - UniCat KW - African American civil rights workers KW - Musicians, Black KW - Actors, Black KW - Belafonte, Harry, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:143460111 AB - A son of poor Jamaican immigrants who grew up in Depression-era Harlem, Harry Belafonte became the first black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film. Forging connections with an astonishing array of consequential players on the American scene in the decades following World War II -- from Paul Robeson to Ed Sullivan, John Kennedy to Stokely Carmichael -- Belafonte established his place in American culture as a hugely popular singer, matinee idol, internationalist, and champion of civil rights, black pride, and black power. --Publisher's description. ER -