Richard Durham radio scripts, 1948-1950.

Owens, Jesse, 1913-1980

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James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (born September 12, 1913, Oakville, Alabama – died March 31, 1980, Tucson, Arizona) was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. Owens specialized in the sprints and the long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history". He set three world records and tied another, all in less than an hour, at the 1935 Big Ten track meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan—a ...

Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965

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WMAQ (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

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Robinson, Sugar Ray, 1920-1989

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Sugar Ray Robinson (b. Walker Smith Jr., May 3, 1921, Ailey, GA–d April 12, 1989, Los Angeles, CA) was a professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. He moved from Georgia to Harlem, NYC at 12 and made his professional boxing debut in 1940. In 1943, Robinson was inducted into the United States Army, where he served with Joe Louis and the pair went on tours where they performed exhibition bouts in front of US troops. From 1943 to 1951 Robinson went on a 91 fight unbeaten streak. He held t...

Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931

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Ida B. Wells (b. July 16, 1862, Holly Springs, MS - d. March 25, 1931, Chicago, IL) was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1862, six months before the Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to her slave parents. Following the death of both her parents of yellow fever in 1878, Ida, at age 16, began teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Mississippi. Some time between 1882 and 1883 Wells moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to teach in city schools. She was dismissed, in 1891, for h...

Attucks, Crispus, -1770

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Crispus Attucks (d. March 5, 1770, Boston, MA) was an American of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution. Historians disagree on whether Crispus Attucks was a free man or an escaped slave. Despite the lack of clarity over whether he was a slave, Attucks became an icon of the anti-slavery movement in the mid-19th century. In the 1850s, as the abolitionist movement gain...

Durham, Richards

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Educator in the Mormon Church educational system. From the description of Letter, statement, and a transcript of a symposium, 1950-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122322687 ...

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...