Belafonte
Americannoun
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Belafonte offers to put him in contact with the leadership of the African National Congress, the principal opponent of the apartheid regime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
In 1957 Belafonte divorced his wife, Marguerite, who already was raising their two children single-handedly, and married Julie Robinson, a white dancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Belafonte began singing at downtown nightclubs with a repertoire of Caribbean folk songs adopted from the Greenwich Village music scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mr. Jelly-Schapiro accurately calls Belafonte “the crucial bridge” between Southern civil-rights groups and Hollywood stars, and he, too, raised tens of thousands of dollars for the movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Harry Belafonte singing “Mary’s Boy Child” drifted in from the living room.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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