United States – Texas

Harold Mills (1953- )
Harold Mills is a boat racing pioneer and award winning driver. Born August 16, 1953 in Seattle, Washington, he spent...
February 26th, 2008

Willie Brown, Jr. (1934- )
Former State Legislator and Mayor Willie Lewis Brown Jr. was born in Mineola, Texas, to Willie L. Brown, Sr., and...
February 25th, 2008

James Edward (Jimmy) Stewart (1912-1997)
James Edward (“Jimmy”) Stewart was born in Plano, Texas on September 16, 1912, to laborer/minister Zena Thomas Stewart and Mary...
February 21st, 2008

Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
It may be impossible today to understand fully the shock and outrage which alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman’s 1959 arrival in...
February 19th, 2008

Winston E. Scott (1950- )
Winston Elliott Scott, a former Navy Captain and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, was born on August 6,...
February 19th, 2008

Louise Jenkins Meriwether (1923- )
Louise Jenkins Meriwether, a novelist, essayist, journalist and social activist, was the only daughter of Marion Lloyd Jenkins and his...
February 13th, 2008

Raymond Merriwether (1924-2011)
Raymond (Ray) Merriwether, prominent Seattle, Washington African American architect, real estate developer, and newspaper owner, was born in Taylor, Texas...
February 9th, 2008

Adam Clayton Powell Sr. (1865-1953)
Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. was born on May 5, 1865, in Franklin County, Virginia to former slaves of African American,...
February 6th, 2008

Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) was founded in Tyronza, Arkansas in July 1934 by black and white tenant farmers...
January 22nd, 2008