Sammy Davis Jr.
By Red Wooley
Sammy Davis Jr. Life and Achievements
Sammy Davis Jr. was a highly popular performer. He was part of the very famous group the Rat Pack with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin,who he starred with in several movies. This flyer is about Sammy Davis Jr. life and achievements.
Sammy Davis Jr. Award
Sammy Davis Jr. was givven the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award post-mortom in 2001,for his amazing contribution to the feild of recording during his life time.
Sammy Davis Jr. Disaster struck
Sammy Davis Jr. was envolved in a fatal automobile accident in 1954, which he had lost in an eye. During his recovery he had talked to a rabi and converted to judaism. He was fitted for a glass eye.
Sammy Davis Jr. Being a African American
Sammy Davis jr. was a champion at civil rights. He was at all the major marches in washington, he marched and protested with Martin Luther King Jr. It was hard for him to be an African American performer in is time.
Sammy Davis Jr. Life
Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt a white actress even though mixed marriages were illegal in 32 states. He had 1 girl and adopted 2 boys they divorced in 1968. He remaried in 1970 to Altovise Gore the dancer. Sammy Davis Jr. was a lifetime smoker and suffered from throat cancer and died in 1990