Unsung Hollywood - 1x04 - Dick Gregory- Followmy.tv

Dick Gregory is best described as an African-American satirist, civil rights soldier, author, nutritionist, presidential and mayoral candidate. His wit, spontaneity and fearlessness gave him the skill to knock down the doors of racism, intolerance and corruption for over six decades. A close friend of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers, Gregory was politically engaged to a degree no comedian has ever been before or since. Gregory was a regular on the front lines of Birmingham and Selma, where he was jailed, beaten, blackballed and forever changed. For the rest of the 60s, he channeled his political and social passions into devastating satire about racism, politics, Vietnam, and much more. Though he broke the color line for African American comics in clubs and on TV, and paved the way for countless comedians who followed, many younger Americans today know him best as the inventor of the Bahamian Diet. In this inspirational episode of Unsung Hollywood, friends, family, civil rights leaders and fellow comics, including Bill Cosby, Dave Chappelle and Richard Belzer, weigh in on the man who changed the face of stand-up and officially ended the Jim Crow school of humor while raising the consciousness of the country and the world.