Dick Gregory, Who Rose From Poverty To Become A Groundbreaking Comedian And Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 84

Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times: Local
Sat, 08/19/2017 - 7:30pm

Dick Gregory, who became the first black stand-up comic to break the color barrier in major nightclubs in the early 1960s, a decade in which he satirized segregation and race relations in his act and launched his lifetime commitment to civil rights and other social injustice issues, died Sunday....

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Topics: dick gregory civil rights

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