In Black and White : The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

by Wil Haygood; foreward by Denzel Washington

• ISBN13: 9780823083954
• ISBN10: 0823083950
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Billboard Books

Summary

Traces the iconic entertainer's entry into the vaudeville circuit at the age of six, his survival of the Depression, his nightclub appearances in the 1930s, and his achievements on Broadway, in Hollywood, and in Las Vegas in the face of pre-Civil Rights race tensions. Reprint.

Author Biography

Wil Haygood, a staff writer for the Washington Post, is also the author of Two on the River, King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; and The Haygoods of Columbus: A Family Memoir. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Foreword: By Denzel Washington	1	(2)
Prologue: Yes He Can	3	(270)
1: Vaudeville Dreams	34	(23)
2: Long Shadows	57	(24)
3: The Kid in the Middle	81	(24)
4: And Sammy Shall Lead Them	105	(11)
5: White Sammy, Black Sammy	116	(35)
6: Through a Glass Eye Brightly	151	(54)
7: The Great White Sammy Way	205	(23)
8: The Wonder of It All	228	(24)
9: A Hitchcockian Affair	252	(21)
10: On to Catfish Row	273	(21)
11: The Sands of Las Vegas and Beyond	294	(23)
12: Sammy and Hilly	317	(15)
13: Golden	332	(25)
14: Fade to Black	357	(17)
15: Mirrors	374	(25)
16: Sammy and Tricky Dick	399	(40)
17: Ode to the Vaudevillian	439	(26)
18: The Ides of Time	465	(10)
19: The Final Curtain	475	(6)
Epilogue: Mother of a Motherless Child	481	(6)
Source Notes	487	(10)
Selected Bibliography	497	(4)
Acknowledgments	501	(2)
Index	503