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Dick Gregory

By: Eleuterio Velazquez, Elijah Ewarawon. Dick Gregory. Introduction.

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Dick Gregory

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  1. By: Eleuterio Velazquez, Elijah Ewarawon Dick Gregory

  2. Introduction • This power point is going to focus on the life of Dick Gregory who was many things a husband, father, activist, philosopher, comedian, and author. He was a man committed to a mission to make the world a better place. He marching with Dr. King to going on strikes he did anything necessary to enrich his people.

  3. Growing Up • Dick Gregory was born October 12, 1932 in St. Louis. • His childhood was spent shining shoes for a living to support his family. • He was involved in sports and social causes in high school. • He went to southern Illinois university with an athletic scholarship. • In 1953 he was named the outstanding athletic student in the university; that same year he left to joined the U.S. army.

  4. Superstar • In 1958 Dick Gregory began his career as a master of ceremonies at various night clubs. • Dick Gregory entered the comedy scene in 1961. • Until then he had just been working in clubs with predominantly black audiences. • Chicago playboy club owner Hugh Hefner booked him for a show when comedian “Professor” Irwin Corey could not make it. • Dick was so good that he won over a audience which included southern white “convention goers.” Playboy offered him a contract to work at their clubs.

  5. Superstar (cont.) • Dick Gregory was the first black comedian to have a big hit. • By the year 1962 Dick Gregory had become a known headline performer. • He sold out many nightclubs, making numerous national television appearances, and recording popular comedy albums.

  6. Family Man • He met his wife, Lil, in a comedy club. • They got married and had about ten kids. • They became highly respected members in the national community in a variety of fields. • The children consisted of Michele, Lynne, Pamela, Paula, Stephanie (aka Xenobia), Gregory, Christian, Miss, Ayanna and Yohance.

  7. Dick Gregory Activist • Dick Gregory named one of his books NIGGER. In this book he explained his experiences and what kind of racism there was in the south. • Dick Gregory was arrested in 1963 during a civil rights demonstration in Birmingham Alabama. • In 1970 Dick Gregory left his comedy to focus on politics. • He focused on violence, capital punishment, drug abuse, and poor health care.

  8. Dick Gregory Vegetarian • In 1973 Dick Gregory moved to Plymouth, Massachusetts, there he developed a interest in vegetarianism and became a nutritional consultant. • In1984 he founded Health Enterprises, Inc., a company that distributed weight loss products. • In 1987 Gregory introduced a Bahamian Diet, a powdered diet mix, which was profitable. • In 2001, Dick Gregory announced to the world that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of Cancer. He refused traditional medical treatment and with the assistance of some of the finest minds in alternative medicine, put together a system of a variety of diet, vitamins, exercise, and modern devices not even known to the public, which ultimately resulted in his reversing the trend of the Cancer to the point where today he is 100% Cancer free.

  9. Dick Gregory’s Jokes • "When I get drunk, I think I'm Polish. One night I got so drunk I moved out of my own neighborhood," • "People keep telling me some of their best friends are colored. Let's face it. There just aren't that many of us to go round," • "They always talk about Russia dropping the bomb. I got news. If it happens, it's gonna be more like 10,000 bombs. There'll be a 100-megaton bomb for New York, a fifty-megaton one for Chicago, a thirty-megaton for Cleveland—and a quarter-megaton job for Grosse Pointe. And it better be painted white—'cause if it's black, they ain'tgonna let it in!"

  10. Dick Gregory promoting peace. Dick Gregory getting arrested. Dick Gregory with his daughter.

  11. Annotated Bibliography • Theodore Myles “DICK GREGORY FOR THE PEOPLE...”<http://www.dickgregory.com/about_dick_gregory.html> This was a good source we got a lot of information from here. It was easy to read. • Hermenaut “The Juice on Dick Gregory” <http://www.hermenaut.com/a52.shtml > This source gave us a lot of information on Dick Gregory as a vegetarian. • Dick Gregory." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 03 May. 2009 <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/245536/Dick-Gregory>. This source was not as good it gave us little information and it wasn’t as helpful. • Gaster,Snally “wuzup wit Dick Gregory” 1999.<http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/gregory/gregory_dick.html> This website did give us a lot of information especially about his earlier life. • Gregory, Dick. “Dick Gregory's political primer” New York: Harper & Row 1972 This source was useful in finding stuff about Dick Gregory’s political view. We did not use a lot from this source but we did use some.

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