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Harry Belafonte Delivers Simmering Civil Rights Spiritual, “In My Father’s House,” on The Ed Sullivan Show

Here’s another lovely (and swingin’) African-American Spiritual with minority rights-conscious lyrics (“Ain’t no signs of hate, in my Father’s house… Folks all integrate, Ha, in my Father’s house…”) brought to the American mainstream by Harry Belafonte and The Ed Sullivan Show on March 29, 1964. After singing “Folks all integrate,” Belafonte breaks the fourth wall …