Documents Tagged ‘Dickie Carter (aka Uncle Dickie or Richard Pryor)’

Richard Pryor Returns To Peoria Stage

A benefit for the local Afro-American Black Peoples Federation brought Richard Pryor back to the Carver Center stage

A review of “Rumpelstiltskin,” Richard's first stage appearance.

Jimmy Bell, a band leader at the Famous Door, fled to St. Louis when his partner was caught in drug bust

Uncle Dickie was arrested with heroin and marijuana, and under suspicion of turning women to prostitution

Richard's Uncle Dickie was netted in Peoria's first major drug sting in years

A reporter dropped into Bris Collins's tavern to take black America's pulse — and met Richard's “Uncle Dickie”

Richard's grandmother and Uncle Dickie at a bar.

The Pryor family diversified its operations, becoming proud owners of a tavern in the mid-40s