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Dick Gregory was born October 12, 1932, in St. Louis He died Aug. 19th 2017 in Washington DC. He was an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, and spokesman for health issues, who was later recognized in the 1960s for his brand of comedy that attacked racial movements. By addressing his act toward the white audiences, he gave comedy a voice for the rising civil rights movement. In the 1980s his nutrition business targeted unhealthy diets of the black community.

He started helping his family with the gigs he started to get at a young age. He was always involved in sports and in social groups in high school. He soon went to the University of Illinois in 1951. He was names the University’s outstanding student athlete of the year in 1953. The same year he left college and joined the army were he did comedy shows hosted by the army. He soon came back to Chicago and finally got his big break at the playboy club in Chicago in 1961 that was supposed to be one night and ended up being six weeks and earned him a spot in time magazine and a guess appearance on jack par’s show and other night clubs shows and etc.

In his shows he mainly targeted segregation, and racism discrimination. He was soon arrested for civil disobedience several times. In the 1970 he went away from his comedy to focus on racism and world hunger and drug abuse. He soon had a successful business venture in the nutritional product the “Bahamian Diet” also Dick Gregory Health Enterprise Inc. That was found in 1984. His company was mainly for poor African Americans but it was booming and ends up getting a million-dollar distribution contract to retain the diet. In 1985 the government adopted his success and even had the famous Muhammad Ali as a customer. He also wrote many books talking about his life and situations that African Americans had to face in general. One of his books was “Nigger” and “no more lies”.

Recently in 2010 dick Gregory announced he was going to go on a hunger strike. He stated because he doubted the official U.S report about the terrorist attack. He says and I quote. “One thing I know is that the official government story of those events, as well as    what took place that day at the Pentagon, is just that, a story. This story is not the truth, but far from it. I was born on October 12, 1932. I am announcing today that I will be consuming only liquids beginning Sunday until my eightieth birthday in 2012 and until the real truth of what truly happened on that day emerges and is publicly known” (Global Research). Dick Gregory life will be remembered forever and some question how he died. He was very inspirational and loved around the world.