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The Complicated, Talented Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

America was still very uncomfortable with race in the 60’s. The desegregation movement called upon principled black people to speak out and march against racial discrimination. As a mainstream performer who earned a living on TV and (along with his Rat Pack mates) in Las Vegas, Davis found himself in an uncomfortable situation: Should he use his fame to speak out against injustice, knowing that he’d risk losing the approval of his (mostly) white audience?

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