Freedom in laughter : Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement / Malcolm Frierson.

"In this groundbreaking study, author Malcolm Frierson moves comedy from the margins to the center of the American Civil Rights Movements. Freedom in Laughter: Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, and the Civil Rights Movement reveals how stand-up comedians Dick Gregory and Bill Cosby used their increasing mai...

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Main Author: Frierson, Malcolm, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020]
Series:SUNY series in African American studies.
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Physical Description:xxi, 164 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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