Sammy Davis, Jr. discusses the civil rights movement on WTTW's 'Our People' in 1968. Sammy Davis, Jr. discusses representation in film, the importance of pride in one's heritage, and the civil ...

In this gripping and expansive reexamination of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a lightning-rod debate over what was allowed to be taught in public schools caps a decades-long run of Continue reading ...

In 1955, a Baptist minister led a Montgomery bus boycott that would spark a decades-long civil rights movement ... the late singer and actor Sammy Davis Jr. wrote in his 1965 autobiography Yes ...

In the mid-1960s, Sammy Davis Jr. ranked behind ... ignores the complex relationship between Davis and Black politics during the civil rights and Black Power eras. That’s the focus of the ...

By Elisabeth Vincentelli Franklin’s recently released F.B.I. file reflects an era when the agency spied not only on civil rights ... she described Sammy Davis Jr.’s negligent parenting but ...

Tell us how you saw Sammy Davis Jr. -- entertainer? Civil rights campaigner? Mobster? Parent?

Sammy Davis, Jr. was one of America’s greatest entertainers of the twentieth century. He could do it all: dancing, singing, acting, impressions. What’s more, he did this at a time when it was ...

Sammy Davis Jr ... around the globe chasing Davis, desperate to persuade him to star in what he believed would be box office manna: a musical for the civil rights movement.