Becoming Belafonte
Subtitle: black artist, public radical
By: by Judith E. Smith
Edition: First edition.
Series: Discovering America; Discovering America series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780292729148
Subjects: Singers; Black Actors; Black Musicians; Biography; African American civil rights workers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Harlem, Jamaica, and the segregated navy to New York City's interracial left-wing culture, 1927/1948; title: Black left, white stage, Cold War : moving into the spotlight, 1949/1954; title: Multimedia stardom and the struggle for racial equality, 1955-1960; title: Storming the gates : producing film and television, 1957-1970.