Recording artist; Broadway, television, and film actor; and civil rights activist.
Oral History Interview (2005) ©: Belafonte completed one interview for the John F. Kennedy Library, 5/20/2005. This interview comments upon the development of Belafonte's political awareness, his friendship and work with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the civil rights movement, and collaboration and conflict with John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, among other issues. (Interview is not online due to copyright restrictions).