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Opinion: Harry Belafonte and the Birmingham protests that changed America

Por: Los Angeles Times Opinion April 28, 2023

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I never met Harry Belafonte but for the last three years I’ve thought about him every day. Over those years, I researched and wrote a book on Project Confrontation, the campaign in the spring of 1963 in Birmingham, Ala., to break segregation once and for all or be broken by it. I believe that what happened in Birmingham — 10 weeks of nonviolent protest and the brute force levied against it — forever altered the trajectory of America.... + full article



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