Question: What was the date of death of a racially charged entertainment performer
Context: Singin' Sam aka Harry Frankel (January 27, 1888, Springfield, Ohio -June 12, 1948, Richmond, Indiana) was a minstrel performer, vaudevillian and popular personality during the early days of radio.  He was best known as "Singin' Sam, the Barbasol Man" for his long association with that company. James Ciccone is an American character actor who has appeared in over a dozen network television shows.  He currently appears in the recurring role of mob boss Carmine Patriccia in the HBO television drama "The Deuce", created by David Simon and George Pellacanos.  He can also be seen playing the recurring role of Officer Lewis in the second season (2017) of NBC's "Shades of Blue."  Earlier in 2017 Ciccone appeared in the racially charged bio-pic "Crown Heights" which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017 and won the Audience Award for U.S. Dramatic Film. The Plainfield riots was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967".  This riot was a series of racially charged violent disturbances that occurred in Plainfield, New Jersey, which mirrored the 1967 Newark riots in nearby Newark. The Quorum was a coffee house in New Orleans, known as a model for multicultural exchange in the politically and racially charged atmosphere of the 1960s.  It became a frequent target of segregationist harassment in New Orleans after it opened to persons from all racial backgrounds in 1963.  In 1964, police raided The Quorum in 1964 and arrested 73 people charges such as "playing guitars out of tune."  Many musicians, poets and artists spent time at The Quorum including Jerry Jeff Walker. ERACE, also known as Eracism is an anti-racism organization created in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1993 by Brenda Thompson, Black, and Rhoda Faust, White, in response to racially charged statements in letters to the editors of the Times-Picayune series "Together Apart/The Myth of Race".  They created the ERACISM bumper sticker and started free, bi-racial, facilitated ERACISM discussions.  The mission: "We seek ways through person to person communication, to show that we are committed to treating fellow human beings of all colors with love and respect.  Join us".  Over 150,000 stickers have been distributed all over the world and over 1,200 free ERACISM Discussions have been held.  The organization still has its home base in New Orleans but now has a chapter in Atlanta, Georgia.  It does not endorse political candidates or engage in partisan politics.  It is solely supported by donations and is run entirely by volunteers. The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of racially charged entertainment developed in the early 19th century.  Each show consisted of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performances that mocked people specifically of African American descent.  The shows were performed by white people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people.  There were also some African-American performers and all-black minstrel groups that formed and toured under the direction of white people. From 1967 to 1973, an extended period of racial unrest occurred in the town of Cairo, Illinois.  The city had long had racial tensions which boiled over after a black soldier was found hanged in his jail cell.  Over the next several years, fire bombings, racially charged boycotts and shootouts were common place in Cairo, with 170 nights of gunfire reported in 1969 alone. The Algiers Motel Incident occurred in Detroit, Michigan, United States, during the night of July 25–26, 1967 during the racially charged 12th Street Riot.  At the Algiers Motel, approximately one mile east of where the riots began, three teenage civilians, all of them black, were beaten and killed by police.  Nine others—two white females and seven black males—were badly beaten and humiliated by members of a riot task force composed of the Detroit Police Department, the Michigan State Police, and the Michigan Army National Guard, and a private security guard.  The incident occurred after reports were received that snipers, a gunman, or group of gunmen had been seen at or near the motel.  One death has never been explained as the body was allegedly found by responding officers.  Two deaths have been attributed to "justifiable homicide" or "self-defense".  Charges of felonious assault, conspiracy, murder, and conspiracy to commit civil rights abuse were filed against three officers and one private security guard.  All were found not guilty. One black man was killed and another was beaten in Howard Beach, Queens, New York, in a racially charged incident in December 1986 that heightened racial tensions in New York City. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality is a bestselling book by Jerome Corsi intended by its author to oppose Barack Obama's candidacy for President of the United States.  The book alleges Obama's "extreme leftism", "extensive connections with Islam and radical politics", "naïve... foreign policy", past drug use and connections to corrupt backers, among other things.  The book has been criticized for containing factual errors, for being racially charged, and for being a political "attack book" containing smears, falsehoods, and innuendo.
Answer: June 12, 1948