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media type="youtube" key="AYihDAhVPko" height="360" width="485" Sammy Davis Jr's personal life was very dangerous. He was drafted in the army at 18. The soldiers was very mean to him so he got transferred to an entertainment regiment. Even then they the soldiers still treated him horible they wrote "coon" on his forehead! Once the war ended he married May Britt a sweetish actress. Sammy spent all his time performing and never spent any time with his wife. They divorced in 1968. He addmitted he had an affair with singer Lola Falana. In the same year he dated Altovise Gore, a dancer in "Golden Boy". they got married in 1970 and stayed together till he died in 1990.

There was a lot of critics about the "Rat Packs" they're tons of black jokes about them. His earlier conversion to Judaism didn't go over well within the African-American community. When Sammy and May Britt was still an idem there was a whole bunch of death threats. Sammy got into a car accident and it cost him his left eye. when he got to the hospital they wouldn't help him because of his race. His uncle and his father sheltered Sammy from racism his whole life till he got into the army. Sammy Davis jr said “Overnight the world looked different. It wasn’t one colour anymore. I could see the protection Id gotten all my life from my father and Will. I appreciated their loving hope that Id never need to know about prejudice and hate, but they were wrong, It was as if Id walked through a swinging door for 18yrs a door which had always secretly been held open by them. But they weren’t there to hold it open and when it finally hit me it was worse than if Id learned about it gradually and knew how to move with it.” Sammy had one kid with May Britt then addopted 2 boys. He dead with throat cancer May,16 1990.

By: Tori Yeich