The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show
is a documentary that originally aired on Peacock
Harry Belafonte was born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr. on March 1, 1927, at Lying-in Hospital in Harlem, New York. He was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow, Buck and the Preacher, and Uptown Saturday Night (1974)