Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"A welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era. . . . Raymond’s study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration. . . Highly entertaining and readable."
*H-1960s*

"Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today."
*Times Literary Supplement*