On February 18, 1940, a baby girl was born in Columbus, Ohio to Leroy and Helen (née Zimmerman) Robinson; they named her Brenda Lynn. That same year, her family moved to Poindexter Village, a new community that was one of the first housing d...
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Important Figures
James Denmark was born on March 23, 1936 in Winter Haven, Florida. He would be reared in a family of artists and this type of upbringing greatly influenced his life, including culturally and artistically. In the biography of James Denma...
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“Even after all the fame, farmer Junius G. kept working hard, kept loving his rich dark earth – likening the furrows his plows churned up to ‘chocolate waves.’”
~ Tonya Bold...
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On April 1, 1940, in Ihithe, a small community in the Nyeri District of Kenya, a baby girl was born into the Muta family; her parents named her Wangarĩ Miriam. Her name, “Wa-ngari” means, “She who belongs to the leopard”. The �...
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Stephanie St. Clair was born on December 24, 1897 in Guadeloupe, the French-governed island in the Caribbean. Due to poor record-keeping and, later, urban legends and yellow journalism, there are discrepancies about her origin. Conflict...
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Caspar Holstein was born on December 7, 1875 in Christiansted, St. Croix, Danish West Indies (presently known as the U.S. Virgin Islands). His paternal grandfather was a White, Danish officer of the Danish West Indies colonial military and hi...
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On July 4, 1892, a son was born to Tom and Rosa (née McDonald) Gaston in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama; although named “Arthur George”, he would be later known as “A.G.” As a small child, Arthur was reared by his paternal g...
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On August 9, 1869, Robert and Isabella (née Cook) Turnbo welcomed the birth of their tenth child, Annie Minerva; she would be the second to the last of their eleven children. Her parents, who had been enslaved in Kentucky, found freedom in M...
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Edna Regina Lewis was born on April 16, 1913 in Freetown, a small farming community in Orange County, Virginia. Freetown was founded by three men, one of who was her grandfather, and its name was homage to their newly-attained emancipatio...
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In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, June Marie Giles, in 1964, gave birth to a baby boy who would be named Jeffery Henderson. His father, Charles Henderson, worked as a welder. Reared by his mother, Jeff was born sever...
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