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* In the film, when his backing singer and mistress Margie Hendricks informs Ray she is pregnant with his child, Ray suggests she should have an abortion, out of loyalty to Della; Margie decides to keep the baby and soon leaves Ray to pursue a separate singing career after he refuses to abandon his family, move in with her and welcome the baby into his life. In reality, Hendricks did conceive a child with Charles and abandoned him after he refused to leave Della, but Charles never asked her to have an abortion, and welcomed any child he conceived, whether from Della or any mistress, into his personal life.<ref name=raygugeor />
* In the scene in which Charles is about to enter a segregated music hall in Augusta, Georgia, in 1962, a group of civil rights activists protesting just outside the hall successfully persuade him not to perform; Charles then declares that he will no longer perform in segregated public facilities and in response, the Georgia state legislature passes a resolution banning Charles from ever performing again in the state. In reality, a group of civil rights activists did successfully persuade Charles to reject this invitation, but the advice came in the form of a telegram rather than a street protest;<ref name=raygugeor /> Charles also did make up for the gig later, and was never banned from performing in Georgia and still accepted invitations to perform at segregated public facilities.<ref name=raygugeor>{{cite web|url=http://www.stfrancis.edu/content/historyinthemovies/ray.htm|title=History in the Movies|website=stfrancis.edu}}</ref>
* In the film, [[Margie Hendrix|Margie Hendricks]] dies in 1964–5. However she actually died in 1973 but, no official cause of death was determined because an autopsy was not performed.
* During the final scene in the film, when Charles' version of "[[Georgia on My Mind]]" becomes Georgia's state song, Charles is congratulated by his wife Della, and a resolution is also passed to lift the lifetime ban he had received in 1962 after he declared he would no longer perform at segregated public facilities. In reality, by the time "Georgia on My Mind" became Georgia's state song in 1979, Charles and Della had already divorced, so she wasn't present when Charles performed at the Georgia State Legislature;<ref name="raygugeor" /> and since he had never been banned from performing in Georgia in the first place, no such resolution was ever passed.<ref name="raygugeor" />
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