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Cornell Gunter

November 14, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Cornell Gunter was born on November 14, 1936 (to February 26, 1990). He was a well-known rhythm and blues and doo-wop singer in the 1950s and 1960s as a member of The Flairs and The Coasters, before joining the Los Angeles-based singing group The Platters, and being featured on their hits “Yakety Yak” and “Charlie Brown.” Cornelius E. Gunter was born in Coffeyville, Kansas, and moved to Los Angeles around 1942, where he studied at Jefferson High School. He became […]

Categories: All, Gunter, Cornell, November, November 14 • Tags: 1936, 1990, Cornell Gunter, February 26, November 14, Ubuntu Biography Project

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June Jordan

July 8, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

June Jordan was born on July 9, 1936 (to June 14, 2002). She was an influential Caribbean-American poet, activist, journalist, essayist, and teacher. Prolific and passionate, she was the author of well over two dozen books of non-fiction, poetry, fiction, drama and children’s writing. She emerged onto the political and literary scene in the late 1960s, when the movements demanding attention were for civil rights, gay and bisexual liberation, women’s equal rights, and the anti-war movement. June Millicent Jordan was […]

Categories: All, Jordan, June, July, July 09 • Tags: 1936, 2002, Caribbean-American, July 09, June 14, June Jordan, Ubuntu Biography Project

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Barbara Jordan

February 21, 2017 by Ubuntu Biography Project

Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 (to January 17, 1996). She was an inspiring member of the Texas State Senate, the United States Congress, a respected lawyer, and civil rights activist. Jordan was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern Black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. Barbara Charline Jordan grew up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas. She was the daughter of a Baptist minister, […]

Categories: All, February, February 21, Jordan, Barbara • Tags: 1936, 1996, Barbara Jordan, February 21, January 17, Ubuntu Biography Project

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