captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. rose: harry bell on the stay an actor, a musician and an activist, he is perhaps known for his banana boat song. he has deep roots in the civil rights movement. his activism brought him close to historical figures like martin luther king, eleanor roosevelt and bert kennedy. slso a great friend of the actor sidney poitier. belafonte has written a book called my song, a memoir. i spoke with him at the 92nd street y earlier this month and here is that conversation. is it easy t bare your soul like you did in this book? no, it s not easy but it was necessary. and what i needed to import to those who will read the book was a more nuanced sense of the history that i experienced and the intimacies exchanged with a lot of the principles, whether it was eleanor roosevelt or bobby kennedy or mandela and a host of people that folks have never heard . you try to make a point that wi