Emilie Raymond

Stars for Freedom

Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Emilie Raymond is associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of "From My Cold, Dead Hands": Charlton Heston and American Politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 628g
• ISBN-13: 9780295994802
• ISBN-10: 0295994800
• Artikelnr.: 41609560

Autorenporträt

Emilie Raymond

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black Celebrity and the Making of Porgy and
Bess
2. Sammy Davis, Jr.: Daring, Deferential, and "Money"
3. Harry Belafonte and the Northern Liberal Network
4. The Arts Group and the March on Washington
5. Dick Gregory and Celebrity Grassroots Activism
6. Stars for Selma
7. Celebrities and Black Power
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index