Tony Bennett’s Commitment to Civil Rights
The comedian and activist Dick Gregory, left, with Tony Bennett and Coretta Scott King at an M.L.K. gala in 1982. The singer witnessed racism in the military and in the music industry, experiences that informed his decision to join the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. In explaining the roots of…
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