“Image Ownership: Public Domain” Floyd E. Norman is an animator, comic book artist, and script writer who made history in 1956 by becoming the first African American cartoon animator at the Disney studios, where he worked directly with Walt Disney. Norman was born on June … Read MoreFloyd E. Norman (1935– )
Image Ownership: Public Domain Author George Jackson is best known for his memoir Soledad Brother, containing the letters that he wrote from prison between 1964 and 1970. George Lester Jackson was born on September 23, 1941, on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. The second … Read MoreGeorge Jackson (1941-1971)
Horace Roscoe Cayton, Jr., was the son of Horace and Susie Cayton and the grandson of Hiram R. Revels, the first black U.S. Senator. After graduation from Seattle’s Franklin High School and the University of Washington, Cayton attended the University of Chicago. It was in … Read MoreHorace Roscoe Cayton Jr. (1903-1970)
