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. As an entertainer, he always kept it indisputably real about race issues in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with hard truths. Kamau Bell, Damon Young, and Trevor Noah, Dick Gregory was a provocative and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years.
and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including Larry Wilmore, W. In his unapologetically candid voice, he moves from African ancestry and surviving the middle passage to modern-day protests, A captivating journey through time, this collection of provocative essays explores historical movements such as the Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as cultural touchstones, among them Marian Anderson's performance on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and Billie Holiday's haunting delivery of "Strange Fruit." Here is an essential, unique, no-holds-barred history lesson, sure to provoke, enlighten, uplift, and entertain-from one our greatest legends.With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.Ī friend of luminaries including Dr. Now, in Defining Moments in Black History, Gregory charts the empowering yet often obscured past of the African American experience. But Gregory has always kept it indisputably real when discussing race in America, fearlessly lacing laughter with controversial truths in a manner that is inimitable his own. Known as much for his comedic achievements-as an actor, author, and social critic-as for his activism, Gregory is the forebearer of today's new generation of black comics, including W.
and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma during the Civil Rights movement or organizing student demonstrations to protest the Vietnam War, participating in rallies for Native American and feminist rights or fighting apartheid in South Africa. Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr.
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