Harold Courlander

Harold Courlander

male, deceased (1996)
Haiti Singing, afro-american, american indian, caribbean, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, african…Roots The Saga of an American Family, American
Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 - March 15, 1996), noted novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, was recognized as one of the world's...
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

male, deceased (2004)
Brooklyn College, Princeton University, Winston-Salem, Conductor, film score composer, jazz musician…African American classical composer, American, afro-american
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina-March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an innovative American composer whose...
May Britt

May Britt

female, 76 years old
convert to Judaism, Murder, Inc, Murder, Inc., photographer, The Blue Angel, interracial marriage…afro-american
May Britt had a brief career as movie actress in the 1950s, in Italy first and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she...

Joe Brown

male, deceased (1997)
African American, boxer, lightweight, Louisiana Creole, ring magazine, creole…American, afro-american
Joe Brown was an accomplished boxer who won the undisputed Lightweight Championship of the World in 1956, making eleven successful defences before...
Chuck Stone

Chuck Stone

male, 79 years old
University of Delaware, Civil Rights, American Civil Rights Movement, Congress of the United States, Fraternities and sororities, Greek-letter…American, afro-american
Chuck Stone (born July 21, 1924) is a former Tuskegee Airman, an American newspaper editor, columnist, and professor of journalism. In the 1940s,...

William Moore

male, deceased (1951)
musician, singer, Blues guitarist, Blues musician, Blues singer, African-American…afroamerican, American, afro-american, American blues singer-guitarist
William "Bill" Moore, born March 3, 1893 in Dover, Georgia, died November 22, 1951 in Warrenton (Fauquier County), Virginia, was an Afro-American...
Lee Dorsey

Lee Dorsey

male, deceased (1986)
from New Orleans, afro-american, African American, Record producer, Soul musician, singer…American
Lee Dorsey (born Irving Lee Dorsey, December 24 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana - died December 1 1986 in New Orleans) was an Afro-American pop/R&B...

Russell L Adams

male
University of Chicago, Great Negroes Past and Present, afro-american, American, durham, Academic
Russell L. Adams (August 13, 1930- Present), a prolific writer, professor, and is the Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Howard...
Olivia Cole

Olivia Cole

female, 67 years old
film actor, Broadway theatre, The School for Scandal, North and South, The Guiding Light, Brewster Place…American, afro-american
Olivia Cole (born November 26 1942) is an American actress. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Cole was the first Afro-American actress to be nominated...
Taylor Gordon

Taylor Gordon

male, deceased (1971)
Montana writer, from Montana, Vaudeville performer, singer, New York musician, American…afro-american
Taylor Gordon (1893 - 1971) was a singer and vaudeville performer associated with the Harlem Renaissance in the mid-1920's. He was born in White...