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The recent passing of singer, actor and activist Harry Belafonte has brought forth an outpouring of tributes. In a White House statement, President Biden called Mr. Belafonte a “groundbreaking American who used his talent, his fame, and his voice to help redeem the soul of our Nation.”
Although this remembrance album could rightfully have been created for a variety of TPS groups including TPS Commons, The Arts and Primary Sources & Civil Rights, it has been initially placed in the American Jewish Experience group.
We are glad to share several entries highlighting Mr. Belafonte’s Jewish connections along with Library of Congress and other supporting materials. Primary Source Nexus, for example, has curated Collections Spotlight: Harry Belafonte, offering valuable supplemental resources.
Please feel free to add your resources as a way to a celebrate and honor a handsome, charismatic and extraordinary individual!
Harry Belafonte African American Entertainers African American Singers Folk Music Art/Music Civil Rights
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Coincidentally a friend and I were just talking about him and his activism.
Thank you for sharing these resources.
Thank you for this beautiful tribute album 
Margaret Lincoln
! I learned a lot from your collected resources that I didn’t realize about Harry Belafonte and his Jewish heritage.
Great album
Margaret Lincoln
! I added a link to it in this resource set - Collections Spotlight: Harry Belafonte.
Thank you so much, 
Julie Schaul
, for such an important addition! I included mention of the Collections Spotlight: Harry Belafonte materials in the Album Description so that the link shows up in the ‘shareable URL’ version of the Album.
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