TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haygood, Wil.
TI  - In black and white: the life of Sammy Davis, Jr. 
SN  - 037540354X
AV  - PN 2287.D322 .H331 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - African American entertainers
KW  - Entertainers
KW  - United States
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-499) and index
N2  -  he marched with Martin Luther King while, notoriously, cozying up to President Nixon and conducting numerous affairs with white women. Above all, he made his name as a vaudevillian entertainer by arguably accepting the role of honorary white man. This is the definitive portrait of the Rat Pack's most interesting and maverick member."www.alibris.com"; Sammy Davis, Jr was one of the most recognisable showbiz entertainers of the twentieth century: dancer, singer, hyperactive cabaret performer, film star and hard-drinking, high-living bad-boy member of Las Vegas's legendary Rat Pack along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford. But his story was also one of contradiction and compromise: a black man trying to make his name as a star during a time of racial prejudice and even segregation, Sammy Davis, Jr never came to terms with the complexities of his situation. He endured patronising humiliation from his fellow Rat Pack members
ER  -