Word: booker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champion Is Mourned. White was intense and fanatical, and he often made enemies, but he came as close as any man since Booker T. Washington to being a leader of his chosen people. He willingly bucked public opinion, Negro and white, when he thought he was right. After his first wife divorced him, in 1949, White married Poppy Cannon, a white woman who was born in South Africa. He was widely criticized, and the NAACP decided to keep him as secretary only after a 3½hour debate, by a vote...
...porter and a seamstress. As a child she fell in love with Latin and music, eventually won her master's at Atlanta University with a thesis on the letters of Pliny the Younger. An accomplished pianist, violinist and violist. Miss Green now teaches music at Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School, also gives piano lessons at home. Over the years she has set hundreds of students to playing string quartets, singing chorales, attending symphony concerts in the city ("They come around to see her," says her mother, "just like she was their own mama"). But in spite...
John Sherman Cooper the younger was born on a sultry August morning in 1901 and delivered by the family cook and midwife, Aunt Elvira Booker. He grew up in the protective bosom of Harvey's Hill and, with his brothers and sisters, attended Mrs. Anna Mourning's private school, an establishment maintained largely for young Coopers. (At one time five of Mrs. Mourning's seven pupils were Coopers.) Mother Cooper disagreed with her husband's ideas about private education, and one day, when Judge Cooper was off in Texas checking some oil properties, she sent John...
...Louis Booker Wright, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library of Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . L.H.D...
...Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio. Capitol includes Lennie Tristano and his fantastic a-rhythmical meanderings in a new clutch...