Miriam Makeba
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Zenzile Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she w
Makeba during a performance in 1991
American singer Harry Belafonte met Makeba in London and adopted her as his protégée.
Makeba in 1969
Makeba and Dizzy Gillespie in Calvados, France, 1991
Stokely Carmichael
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Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian and American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, he moved
Miriam Makeba
…Belafonte/Makeba. She testified against the South African government at the United Nations and became involved in the civil rights movement. She married Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Black Panther Party, in 1968, and consequently lost support among white Americans. Her visa was revoked by the US government when she…
Ture in 1966
Carmichael at a 1966 press conference in Mississippi