Books Details
Author : Dick Gregory Pages : 7 pages Publisher : Audible Studios Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B0843RRYK6 ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
Comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory's million-copy-plus best-selling
memoir - now in audio for the first time, and featuring an all-new exclusive
foreword written and performed by Dr. Christian Gregory, son of Dick Gregory,
in which he shares why that word still carries so much weight and why his
father's message of activism still endures."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 the America's best-loved
comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and
breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race
was discussed in America.Telling stories that range from his hardscrabble
childhood in St. Louis to his pioneering early days as a comedian to his
indefatigable activism alongside Medgar Evers and Dr. Martin Luther
