![]() ![]() His conversion to Judaism, spiritually inspired following a car accident that cost him an eye, helped make Davis an iconic figure in the Jewish community, an embodiment of the “black-Jewish alliance” of the Civil Rights era. By refusing to take the stage in venues that practiced racial segregation, Davis almost singlehandedly integrated the Las Vegas and Miami Beach nightclub scenes. ![]() He rose to stardom in the 1950s and joined Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” (Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop, and other performers and party animals). Davis was the son of a Cuban woman and African-American man, both of them vaudeville dancers his father separated from his mother and took him on tour as a performer when he was three. ![]() Sammy Davis, Jr., a nightclub performer and recording star who converted to Judaism at age 28 in 1954, died on this date in 1990. ![]()
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