· Dick Gregory takes on the specter of "America the Historic Reality," as distinguished from "America the Ideal," exemplified by our founding documents. Using the opening example of his own reading of the Declaration of Independence as a school child, Gregory's work stands as a form of moral protest; the shouts of a PATRIOT taking to task his /5. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, “happy slaves,” and entrepreneurs/5(40). Dick Gregory was an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years. A friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory was an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma during the Civil Rights movement or organizing student demonstrations to protest the Vietnam War, participating in rallies for /5().
No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist's intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the Civil Rights Act. In , during the Black Power Movement, iconoclast Dick Gregory challenged one of the foundations of America itself—its history, which had been written almost exclusively from the white male perspective. In No More Lies, this true trailblazer gave voice to African Americans, speaking their truth about the past and race relations in the. No More Lies|Dick Gregory, Complete Canadian Curriculum: Grade 5|Popular Book Company (Canada) Limited, Rakkety Tam: A Novel of Redwall|Brian Jacques, AlphaBirds: an Alexander Archipelago Alaskan Aviary|Kate Boesser.
No More Lies book. Read 9 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Dick Gregory takes on the specter of "America the Historic Reality," as. Dick Gregory, noted entertainer, author, and presidential aspirant demolishes several myths that are still widely held, tells they as they were and are, and closes by reposing his faith for the saving of the nation in the moral dedication of today's youth of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Addeddate. No More Lies offers this incomparable satirist’s intellectual, conspiratorial, and humorous spin on the facts. No subject is off limits from his critical eye—Gregory examines numerous aspects of culture and history, from the slave trade, police brutality, the wretchedness of working-class life and labor unions to the Civil Rights Act, the Founding Fathers, “happy slaves,” and entrepreneurs.
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