For these black figures, and many more, bolstering the Civil Rights Movement became well worth any sacrifice
... [+]In 1955, a Baptist minister led a Montgomery bus boycott that would spark a decades-long civil rights movement comprising a series of mass protests against racial inequality in the U.S.
, recalls her father keeping his children abreast of current events. “Our dinner table was like a civil rights forum,” she tells. “When Dr. King was arrested Easter weekend, he wrote a letter from a Birmingham jail. My dad brought a copy of the letter home asked us to read it, then we talked about it as a family.”
, recalls Belafonte telling him. “He always stopped what he was doing, and he always sent the money.”Belafonte was another confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. He helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his"I Have a Dream" speech and donated $40,000 to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a youth-led activism group.
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