1963

by Harry Belafonte

Actor, singer, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte offers a personal perspective on the pivotal 1963. He gives new insight to the civil rights journey before and after The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s defining “I Have a Dream” speech. The First Edition is of 4,810 paper copies, printed in yellow arabesque patterned letterpress wrappers, and of 149 half-leather copies, signed by the author and publisher, bound in half goldenrod Morocco leather and paste paper, and comes in a black clamshell box with a leather spine.

33 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013

About the author

Harold George Belafonte, noted American musician, known as "Harry," gained a worldwide audience for Calypso with "The Banana Boat Song" in 1957 and also outspokenly supported civil rights and humanitarian causes.

This Jamaican singer, actor popularized with international audiences in the 1950s. Calypso , breakthrough album of this a single artist, first sold a million long-playing phonographic records.

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