Belafonte befriended King early in his career, bailing the civil rights activist out of jail and paying for a babysitter to care for King's children.
, eulogized singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte on social media this week, reflecting on the close relationship that he had with her family and particularly her father.
Earlier that morning, Belafonte's longtime spokesman announced that Belafonte, 96, had died at his Manhattan home from congestive heart failure. Harry Belafonte is shown with the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. at New York's Kennedy Airport on August 14, 1964. Belafonte, who died Tuesday at 96, was close friends with the civil rights leader.Belafonte befriended the civil rights leader early in his career, acting as a major donor to King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and repeatedly providing the funds to bail out King and other activists from jail.
On the 50th anniversary of that day, Belafonte recalled how"truly inspiring" the march was and revealed his thoughts on his friend's renowned speech, which he said he helped write.
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