”Harry Belafonte’s explosive popularity in the late 1950s touched off a new craze for calypso-themed music; Hollywood films; West-Indian-inspired ruffled shirts and 'Calypso Cut' hairdos targeted at a mainstream white audience.”
"'The bookstore... which the militant radical and railway porter Leonard Johnston had opened with his wife Gwendolyn less than a year earlier... specialized in books on the history and culture of Africa and its diaspora/ black literature and volumes…