Summary
Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory’s million-copy-plus bestselling memoir–now in trade paperback for the first time.
“Powerful and ugly and beautiful…a moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it.”–The New York Times
Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of America’s best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593086148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593086147 |
| Author: | Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Plume |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 17 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 135mm |
About The Author
Dick Gregory
Dick Gregory
A provocative and incisive cultural force for more than 50 years, Dick Gregory was a friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Medgar Evers. He is also considered the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. Kamau Bell, Dave Chappelle, and Trevor Noah.
As an entertainer, Gregory always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing humor with hard truths. As a leading activist against injustice, he marched at Selma during the civil rights movement, organized student rallies to protest the Vietnam War, sat in at rallies for Native American and feminist rights, fought apartheid in South Africa, and participated in hunger strikes in support of Black Lives Matter.
He died in 2017.
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