Sammy Davis Jr.’s 1967 Guest Column: Facing Racism and Overcoming ‘Second-Class Citizenship’
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variety.comTim Gray Senior Vice PresidentThe public often assumes that if celebrities are rich and famous, their lives must be trouble-free.
Actually, lots of showbiz horror stories negate that, but they’re usually about addiction and/or self-destruction. In 1967, Sammy Davis Jr.
offered an insightful guest column about the everyday problems that he and others faced as Black people in America.In the 1960s, America seemed on the brink of a second civil war, as people were divided about the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war, police brutality, drug use, the White House versus the media, and more.
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