His history, after all, is all of ours, too. Gregory was a comedian, historian, track star, soldier in the Army, activist, and a son of our own St. He talks about black history in a nearly tangible way, and in a way that is so relevant to what is going on in America today. Gregory in 2017, and I am grateful for this collection of essays that take us from his childhood in the 1930s to his experiences in the Harlem Renaissance and his work in the Civil Rights movement, where he worked alongside Rev. The things that he joked about were funny but true, and started to show me that my experience of America was not representative of everyone’s experience. author of the NAACP Image Award-winning Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies and the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography. He was making jokes about what it was to be a black man in America, and although they were funny, I paid attention. One of the memories that I do have from my childhood, though, is watching Dick Gregory on television. This is something that I’ve become aware of as an adult and have tried to educate myself about. Gregory ( Callus on My Soul, 2000, etc.) notes that his perspective is unique because he was thereat least for many of the 20th-century events he chronicles. This isn’t something that I learned entirely as a kid. 19, 2017 The comedian, activist, and social critic highlights key events in black history in America. As a white woman living in the Midwest, I’m afforded a great deal of privilege.
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