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Robert R. Moton (1867-1940)
Robert Russa Moton was born in 1867 on the William Vaughan Plantation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Moton attended the...
William J. Powell (1897-1942)
Aviation company founder William J. Powell was born in Kentucky on July 27, 1897. His family soon moved to Chicago,...
Danny K. Davis (1941- )
Danny K. Davis was born in Parkdale, Arkansas on September 6, 1941, the son of a sharecropper. He received a...
Blind Lemon Jefferson (ca. 1890-1929)
Blind Lemon Jefferson was born in Couchman, Texas, sometime around the 1890s although the exact date is not known and...
Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter (1888-1949)
Huddie Ledbetter was born January 15, 1888, on the Jeter Plantation near Mooringsport, Louisiana. He was an only child who...
Cardiss Collins (1931- )
Cardiss Robertson Collins was born September 24, 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Findley Robertson and Rosa Mae...
Robert Smalls (1839 -1915)
Robert Smalls was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, on April 5, 1839 and worked as a house slave until the...
Cotton Club of Harlem (1923- )
Opened in 1923, the Cotton Club on 142nd St & Lenox Ave in the heart of Harlem, New York was...
Alberta Hunter (1895-1984)
Alberta Hunter was born in Memphis, Tennessee, but left for Chicago, Illinois at age 11 after her father died. She...