Art Wall Jr.Age: 77 golfer best remembered for remarkable comeback to win 1959 Masters; birdied five of his last six holes to close with a 66, passing Cary Middlecoff and defending champ…
Benjamin Davis, Jr.Age: 89 the first black U.S. Air Force general, who, during World War II, led the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering group of all-black fighter pilots. The success of the…
Howard E. Rollins, Jr.
actor
Born: 11/17/1950
Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland
Rollins gained critical acclaim for his role as a young Black man in search of justice in the film Ragtime (…
Whitney M. Young, Jr.social reformerBorn: 7/31/1921Birthplace: Lincoln Ridge, Ky. As executive director of the National Urban League (1961–1971) Young focused on gaining equality for blacks…
CRITZ, Mark S., a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pa.; January 5, 1962; B. S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa., 1987; business manager;…
by T. S. Eliot IIIIII The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the sawdust-trampled street
With all its muddy feet that press
To early coffee-stands. With…
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Born: 9/16/1950
Birthplace: Keyser, W.Va.
writer, critic, educator, activist
Gates has used his position as one of the country's preeminent Black scholars to promote…
by T. S. Eliot IIIVIII You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was…
by T. S. Eliot IIIIV His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;
And short square fingers…
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