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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Betty Davis
by Dick MacBetty Davis (nee Mabry) is an American funk singer whose gritty and glamorous style made her popular among fellow musicians, but not record company and radio executives. She worked as a...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Muhammad Ali
by Dick MacMuhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay, January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on June 3, 2016, at age 74.Ali was a professional boxer and civil rights...
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Celebrate Black History 2101 - Fred Hampton
by Dick MacFred Hampton was born August 30, 1948, and killed by the Chicago police on December 4, 1969, at the age of 21. The cause of death was determined to be "justifiable homicide." He was chairman...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Charley Pride
by Dick MacCharley Pride was born March 18, 1934, in Sledge, Mississippi, and died of complications related to COVID-19, on December 12, 2020. He was 86.I first learned about Charley Pride in the...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Tom Atkins
by Dick MacThomas Irving Atkins was born March 2, 1939, in Elkhart, Indiana, and died from complications related to ALS, on June 27, 2008.He was the first black student body president at his high...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Richard Pryor
by Dick MacRichard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born in Peoria, Illinois, on December 1, 1940 and died December 10, 2005, in Los Angeles, California of heart failure believed to be the result of...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Mary Wilson
by Dick MacMary WilsonMary Wilson died last night. She was born March 6, 1944, in Greenville, Mississippi, and died suddenly at age 76, on February 8, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the Great...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Shirley Chisholm
by Dick MacShirley Chisholm (nee St. Hill) was born in in New York City on November 24, 1923, and died in Ormond Beach, Florida on January 1, 2005, after several strokes. She was 80 years old.Chisholm...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Claudette Colvin
by Dick MacClaudette Colvin, was born on September 5, 1939. On March 2, 1955, at the age of 15, she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded,...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - NAACP
by Dick MacThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on this day, February 12, 1909, by W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wellsa, Mary White Ovington, and Moorfield Storey,...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Fannie Lou Hamer
by Dick MacFannie Lou Hamer (née Townsend) was born in Montgomery County, Mississippi on October 6, 1917 and died of complications related to breast cancer on March 14, 1977 in Mound Bayou,...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Lorraine Hansberry
by Dick MacLorraine Vivian Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 19, 1930, and died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on January 12, 1965. She was a playwright, journalist, and...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Hank Aaron
by Dick MacHenry Louis "Hank" Aaron was born February 5, 1934, in Mobile, Alabama, and died in his sleep of natural causes, in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 22, 2021. He was 86.Hank Aaron played 23...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Maya Angelou
by Dick MacMaya Angelou, was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in her sleep on May 28, 2014, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86.Angelou was a...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Octavia Butler
by Dick MacOctavia Estelle Butler was a science fiction writer born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947, and died February 24, 2006, in Lake Forest Park, Washington, of head injuries ostensibly...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Thurgood Marshall
by Dick MacThurgood Marshall was born July 2, 1908, in Baltimore, Maryland, and died of heart failure at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 24, 1993. He was 84.Marshall was a lawyer and civil...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Dorothy Height
by Dick MacDorothy Irene Height was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912 and died in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2010.She was a civil rights and women's rights activist who focused on...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Bessie Coleman
by Dick MacBessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, on January 26, 1892, and died in a plane crash, at Jacksonville, Florida, on April 30, 1926. She was 34.Coleman's parents were sharecropper in...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Robert Sengstacke Abbott
by Dick MacRobert Abbott was born in St. Simons, Georgia, on November 24, 1870 and died of Bright's Disease on February 29, 1940. His parents were "freemen," having gained their freedom before the...
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Celebrate Black History 2021 - Gwendolyn Brooks
by Dick MacGwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 7, 1917, and died of cancer on December 3, 2000, in Chicago, Illinois. She was 83.Brooks was a poet whose first published piece Eventide...
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