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Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory (book)

  • Type: Autobiographical
  • Length: 209 pages

Nigger is a 1964 autobiography by American comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, written with journalist Robert Lipsyte. - AsNotedIn

You didn't die a slave for nothing, Momma. You brought us up. You and all those Negro mothers who gave their kids the strength to go on, to take that thimble to the well while the whites were taking buckets. Those of us who weren't destroyed got stronger, got calluses on our souls. And now we're ready to change a system, a system where a white man can destroy a black man with a single word. Nigger.
Dick Gregory, Nigger




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People
  • Medgar Evers, Evers called and asked me to speak at the voter registration rallies in Jackson, Mississippi.

Places
  • Carbondale, IL, Illinois The day I cleared post I had to fill out a form with my home address on it. I wrote Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinios.
  • Chicago, Illinois On New Year's Eve, from the stage of Mister Kelley's in Chicago, I made a resolution for 1963: Get Kennard out of jail.
  • Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot, Carbondale, IL It had been a short trip, that train ride from Carbondale to Chicago, but some of the days that followed were very long.

Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1964/09/00 Dick Gregory Author "Nigger", an autobiography by Dick Gregory, is published by E P Dutton.

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Particulars for Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory (book):
Narrative Arts Attribute Autobiographical a written work dealing with the writer's own life
Narrative Arts Biography
Cultural Affiliation Black American
Art Type Book a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers.
Society Civil Rights guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics
Narrative Arts Factual concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it
Racial Slur or Term of Endearment Nigger contemptuous term for a Black person, or term of endearment between Bros




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