The Poet Behind the Poems David Chapman Berry was born July 23, 1942, in Vicksburg, but he mostly grew up in Greenville, Mississippi (Gale). His parents were David Berry and Annette Hays, who also had a daughter named Bettty Berry (Jacobs). Berry started writing poetry in ninth grade because of boredom in church (“D.C.B. Biography”). As a young man, Berry found a love for chorus and drama and continued performing until he graduated from Greenville High School in 1960 (Few).
Despite his mother’s wishes of him becoming a farmer, he choose to move to Harlem in 1933. This was the beginning of a whirlwind life of studies taught by some of the world’s leading educators and mentors. His travels took him all over the globe. He developed friendships with many powerful and sometimes controversial people. In 1996, award winning actor Wesley Snipes, Executive Produced and narrated a documentary on the life of John Henrik Clarke.
Jonathan Anderson English 99 Dr. Mullens February 20, 2012 The most memorable person in my life was my dad. Frank J Anderson he was and always will be my hero. He was a father, a teacher and a hard worker nothing could get him down. He was born on August 5, 1942 in Martinsburg, WV and passed away November 21, 2005. He lived a long and hard life.
E. Lynn quit his job to write his first novel, Invisible Life, but could not find a publisher, so he published it himself in 1991 and sold only to black owned bookstores, hair salons, and book clubs, before Anchor Books discovered him. Anchor published Invisible Life on paperback in 1994, and his career was officially started. Harris followed with books Just As I Am (1994), And This Too Shall Pass (1996), If This World Were Mine (1997), and Abide With Me, (1999) all published by Doubleday. All of his books have been bestsellers. However, And This Too Shall Pass, If This World Was Mine, Abide With Me, Not A Day Goes By, and A Love of My Own were New York Times bestsellers.
He was the first Democratic since 1884 elected into the New York State Senate in 1910 and was reelected in 1912. During these two terms, he pushed for many welfare for women and children. He resigned from Senate in 1913. Up until this point, he lived a very good life, but just eight years later disaster struck. The adversity that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to overcome was his contraction of polio.
This fulfilled his life and gave him great satisfaction. Peyton Rous was born on October 5, 1879 in Baltimore, MD to Charles Rous, a grain exporter, and Frances Wood, the daughter of a Texas judge. According to The Journal of Experimental Medicine, “His mother’s ancestors were Huguenots who settled in Virginia after the Edict of Nantes. Just before the Civil War in the 1860’s her father, foreseeing disaster, bought land in Texas, moving his big family there after it ended. There he became a judge «riding three counties» and the family throve” (page 1).
Dubois was the Author of 21 books, and several newspaper articles. Dubois’s had a pleasant childhood; his lineage was of mixed race his mother black and his father mulatto. In childhood Dubois witnessed a feud between his dad Alfred and Alfred’s in laws. Alfred was considered by his in laws to be “too good looking, too white” (Wolters, pg.23). Dubois’s father left his mom after three years of marriage.
Candy Man Dean Arnold Corll was born on December 24, 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana the first child of Mary Robinson and Arnold Edwin Corll. He was brought up in a broken home, the marriage of Corll's parents was coming to an end so the couple divorced in 1946, four years after the birth of their younger son, Stanley. Mary Corll subsequently sold the family home and relocated to a trailer home in Memphis, Tennessee. At a young age, Dean was diagnosed with a heart murmur, but despite his heart condition, he was drafted to the military services in 1964, where signs of homosexuality began to take place; however a year later he was released due to hardship where he then returned home to help his mother, Mary, who had set up a candy production
Louis Armstrong played for five decades without having a number-one song. In 1964 “Hello Dolly” topped the charts and even replaced the Beatles song which held the top spot on the charts for 14 consecutive weeks. July 6, 1971 Louis Armstrong suffered a heart attack that he was not able to recover from which caused his
Elvis Aaron Presleya (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience.