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The Movie Ray Essay

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The biography of Ray Charles RObinson, “movie Ray”, is about how Ray Charles became blind, his addiction to heroin and his career or life on the road as a blind musician. He becomes blind, listening to his brother die and his mother’s death also. He Had nervous breakdowns because of it and became heavy in drugs, on the road while he became a father. What actually happened in the movie was 1962 did not perform at a segregated performance and was banned lifetime from performing in Georgia. The movie states, “ Charles is about to enter a segregated music hall in Augusta, Georgia… civil right activists protesting persuaded him not to perform… Charles declared that he will no longer perform in segregated public facilities… Georgia legislators passed

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