Nonviolent Black student demonstrators were met with fire hoses and dogs in May 1963 during the 10-week Birmingham desegregation campaign organized in part by Martin Luther King Jr. Project Confrontation led to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Martin Luther King Jr.’s martyrdom and then a new life for his country: Everything from the rise of the Black …
Singer, actor and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96. A 1959 Time magazine cover story called his act “a brilliantly planned and executed combination of artistry and showmanship.” Belafonte’s emergence as a hugely popular entertainer with both Black and white audiences arrived during a post-World War II era when the civil rights movement was just coming into focus …
NEW YORK — We go to movies not just to escape, but to discover. I hereby declare myself better than you,’” he wrote in “The Measure of a Man.” In 1964, he became the first Black performer to win the best actor Oscar, for “Lilies of the Field.” He peaked in 1967 with three of the year’s most notable movies: …
