Sammy Davis Jr. nixes ABC offer Davis, Sammy, Jr. performer Television/Video 1954-10-14 Chicago Defender reports in a story out of New York that Davis, Jr. states "I will not be doing the 30-minute American Broadcasting Company television show this Fall." The reason is that no sponsor would buy the pilots. "Myself and my partners have time and time again refused to change...we will not be guilty of ever doing stereotyped shows, no bandannas, 0r anything of the sort..." Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html Sammy Davis Jr. (biography) loc.music.tdabio.72 tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1425