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* Today in Black History - July 15 *
1929 - Francis Bebey is born in Cameroon. He will become a self-taught
master guitarist, composer, and sanza player.
1959 - Billie Holiday joins the ancestors in New York City. [See July 17
below.]
* Today in Black History - July 16 *
1936 - The movie "The Green Pastures" premieres in New York's Radio City
Music Hall, featuring Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, the Hall Johnson
Choir, and Rex Ingram as "De Lawd." The film, a Warner Brothers
production, was William Keighley's adaptation of Marc Connelly's
Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway musical.
* Today in Black History - July 17 *
1959 - Billie Holiday, blues singer, joins the ancestors after succumbing
to liver failure at age 44 in New York City.
1967 - Innovative and famed jazz musician, John Coltrane joins the
ancestors after succumbing to cirrhosis of the liver.
* Today in Black History - July 18 *
1941 - Martha Reeves is born. She will become a singer and will form
a group, "Martha and the Vandellas." Some of the groups' hits
will be "Power of Love," "Heat Wave," "Quicksand," "Dancing
in the Street," "Nowhere to Run," "Jimmy Mack," and "Come and
Get These Memories."
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