Home American singer-songwriter and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, wearing a striped shirt, in an unspecified recording studio, location unspecified, circa 1957. The sound engineer is visible working at the console to the right of the frame. (Photo by Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) American singer-songwriter and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, wearing a striped shirt, in an unspecified recording studio, location unspecified, circa 1957. The sound engineer is visible working at the console to the right of the frame. (Photo by Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American singer-songwriter and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, wearing a striped shirt, in an unspecified recording studio, location unspecified, circa 1957. The sound engineer is visible working at the console to the right of the frame. (Photo by Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American singer-songwriter and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, wearing a striped shirt, in an unspecified recording studio, location unspecified, circa 1957. The sound engineer is visible working at the console to the right of the frame. (Photo by Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

American actor and singer Harry Belafonte poses next to the ocean circa 1957. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
14th August 1964: American singer and actor Harry Belafonte Jr. (left) shakes hands with American civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) at Kennedy International Airport before he and his family board a Pan American jet bound for Conakry, Guinea, New York City. Belafonte was invited to Conakry by Guinea’s president, Sekou Toure, to dedicate a theater and cultural center. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)