ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
African-American comedian first popular in the sixties; now devotes his time and talents to human rights causes; his comedy has become heavily oriented toward political and social criticism. Here he's talking about civil rights.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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