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Sammy Davis Jr's humiliated when JFK shunned him because he married white woman

Sammy Davis Jr. endured being called 'boy, 'cn' and the N word. But his greatest humiliation came when JFK refused to let star perform at the inauguration after he married a white woman, says his daughter

Frank Sinatra helped Sammy through the years of racial injustice, but he tried to persuade Sammy not to marry actress May Britt until after the 1960 election; he was afraid of racial backlash against his other close pal JFK

Daughter Tracey Davis revelations about her father's black experience in new book Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal Journey with My FatherWhen Sammy was in the infantry he was beaten and called 'boy' and 'coon' and had the N word scrawled across his bare chest in white paint

White soldiers tried to make Sammy drink warm urine from a beer bottleSammy performed in Vegas but slept in a segregated quarters   a cardboard shack  pandora charms clearance and was not allowed to address the audience directlyHe was known as Mr. Show Business, 'The Entertainer', and the only black, Puerto Rican, one eyed Jew, to dance, sing and act his way to the top for over six decades.

But Sammy Davis Jr. was never able to escape extreme racial bigotry   even at the hands of President John Kennedy   who refused to let him perform at his inauguration because Sammy had married a white woman, Swedish actress May Britt.

After joining the army in 1942, Sammy was regularly beaten bloody, called 'boy,' 'cn' and the N word by white soldiers who tried to make him drink warm urine from a beer bottle, according to a new book by Sammy's daughter Tracey Davis, Sammy Davis Jr.: A Personal History with My Father, based on conversations with her father during the final months of his life in 1990.

Sammy recounted his life stories to his daughter until the voice that took him to the top of the charts, left him unable to speak due to the advancing throat cancer and the carcinoma growing behind his vocal cords. The pigment of the skin on his throat, covering the insidious tumor, had faded out. He had become a caricature of his former self.

While in the Army, he recounted to his daughter, Sammy was sent to the infirmary with repeated broken noses after repeated knock down drag out fights over the constant racial epithets. Then a Sargeant Williams taught the 5'6", 120 lbs. 17 year old entertainer that he had to use his talent and not his fists if he was going to win the battle against humiliating racial ignorance.

'Every night I would lay in bed, wondering what is it about skin that made people hate so much. But it was far deeper than skin; to these white cats, I was a different breed', Sammy recalled about his Army days.

'Sergeant Williams was my savior. You've got to fight with your brains, Sammy, not your fists', the Sergeant told him. 'He taught me to read and write. Sammy didn't even attend one day of school growing up!

Best man: When Sammy and Frank shared a sandwich the day they met in Detroit in 1941 they bonded for life. Sammy was one of the 'Three Musketeers' of the infamous Rat Pack, along with crooner Dean Martin.

'I owe him my life', he said of Sergeant Williams. 'He tempered all the humiliation I felt from my unit. He distracted me from all my rage, all my anger. I wouldn't have survived the army without him'.

But when the sergeant left the barracks, the soldiers wanted to turn Sammy into their slave. 'I refused to do it and was teased as the 'uppity nr boy'. 'I felt like I was on an island all alone'.

A Corporal Edward and a soldier by the name of Jennings were the worst offenders, beating Sammy until bloody after his performances at the Officer's Club. They stepped on and crushed the gold watch his father had given him. They took a can of white paint and wrote the N word across his chest and asked him to 'be a good little cn and give pandora charms cheap us a dance'.

In a faux gesture of friendship, Jennings invited him to have a beer that turned out to be a bottle of warm urine.

The harassment didn't stop until he was transferred into a Special Services unit where he performed for the entertainment regiment.

'My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking   From then on, deep in my heart, soul and spirit, I knew I had to be a star.'

Frank Sinatra was the other man who helped Sammy through years of racial injustice. 'Those cats saved the pandora rings canada day for me'.

Sammy had been dancing and singing on the vaudeville stage from the age of three with his father, Sammy Davis, Sr., and Will Mastin, becoming the Will Mastin Trio.

Sammy was billed as Silent Sam, pandora jewelry 70% off clearance the Dancing Midget, the freak of the show   a 44 year old midget in black face   because it was illegal to be on stage under age 16.

It seemed like a safe haven to Sammy as the Trio traveled across the country from Harlem performing in the 1930s and '40s   protected from the harsh reality of the color barrier by his father   until they got to the El Rancho Hotel, the largest hotel in Las Vegas at the time.

The Trio was earning $500 a week but 'colored' entertainers weren't allowed to book a room, use the dressing rooms, gamble in the casinos, dine or drink in the hotel. They had to stay in a 'colored' boarding house on the west side of Vegas that pandora jewelry clearance was made of wooden crates and run by a Ms. Cartwright.

She capitalized on her establishment being the only place that colored entertainers could stay so she charged twice as much as the El Rancho. But she did press their clothes.

His father told Sammy pandora charms on sale they were staying there because others were jealous of their act.

Those 'colored' exclusions also applied to iconic entertainers Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, Billy Eckstine, the Mills Brothers.

'You would perform, get out of the casino by the side door, and head to the ghetto'. If they didn't go out to the shack, they sat outside by the swimming pool', explained Sammy.

'I don't know who made up the rules for 'colored' performers. But if you were colored you would never address the audience when you walked onstage. There was this invisible wall colored entertainers were not allowed to cross.'

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