Dick Gregory

CTL-E-0122 · Person · activist · 1960s–2010s

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Comedian and civil-rights activist; ran for mayor of Chicago in 1967

Relationships

Roberts Show Lounge — performed at
Gregory performed at Roberts Show Lounge in the early 1960s, where Hugh Hefner first saw him.

Sources

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Dick Gregory
Chicago Tribune obituary, August 2017

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