Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Godfrey Cambridge" in English language version.
Cambridge was often overweight and it was speculated that his habit of "yo yo dieting" may have been a factor in his early death.
Mr. Hurd joined with Godfrey Cambridge and Maya Angelou in organizing one of the first benefits in New York for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., an occasion memorialized in Ms. Angelou's book The Heart of a Woman. The benefit, held at the Village Gate in the late 1950s, raised $9,000 for Dr. King's civil rights movement.
