Stars for freedom : Hollywood, Black celebrities, and the civil rights movement /
From Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, George Clooney to Leonardo DiCaprio, Americans have come to expect that Hollywood celebrities will be outspoken advocates for social and political causes. However, that wasn't always the case. As Emilie Raymond shows, during the civil rights movement the St...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Capell family book.
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Table of Contents:
- Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black celebrity and the making of Porgy and Bess
- Sammy Davis, Jr.: daring, deferential, and "money"
- Harry Belafonte and the northern liberal network
- The arts group and the March on Washington
- Dick Gregory and celebrity grassroots activism
- Stars for Selma
- Celebrities and Black power.
