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Orville Freeman 2003 Deaths
Orville FreemanAge: 84 Democratic politician who served as governor of Minnesota from 1954 to 1960. As secretary of agriculture under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Freeman helped to create…Janet Collins 2003 Deaths
Janet CollinsAge: 86 pioneering prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera House who danced in Cole Porter's 1950 Broadway musical Out of This World and in Aida and Carmen. She was the first…Walter (Buck) Leonard
Walter (Buck) LeonardBorn: Sept. 8, 1907Baseball 1B won Negro League championship nine years in a row with the Homestead Grays; hit .391 in 1948 to lead the league; usually batted cleanup…Woody Stephens 1998 Deaths
Woody StephensAge: 84 legendary thoroughbred racing trainer who won the Eclipse Award in 1983 as the nation's No. 1 trainer; his horses won five straight Belmont Stakes races in the 1980s;…Roger Stevens 1998 Deaths
Roger StevensBroadway producer Stevens helped create the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and establish the National Endowment for the Arts and served as its first chairman.…James Stockdale 2005 Deaths
James StockdaleAge: 81 U.S. Navy vice admiral who won the Medal of Honor in 1976. He was captured by the North Vietnamese in 1965 and imprisoned for more than seven years, enduring repeated…Jimmy Smith 2005 Deaths
Jimmy SmithAge: 76 jazz organist whose scintillating music, called “soul jazz,” combined jazz, R&B, and bebop. He played on a Hammond B-3 electronic organ, an instrument not previously…Civil Rights Centenaries
2013 marks the (semi)centenaries of several major Civil Rights milestones March on Washington, Aug 28, 1963 Malcolm X Related Links Black History Month African American History…2001 Deaths: M - Q
Peter MaasEmily MacFarquharMike MansfieldFred MarcellinoHarvey MartinWilliam H. MastersEddie MathewsJoey MaximStan (Chook) MaxwellWhitman MayoTheodore McCartySusannah McCorkleKim McDonaldAl…Howard Fast 2003 Deaths
Howard FastAge: 88 prolific writer whose historical novels often involved themes of social justice and rebellion. A member of the Communist Party, he was jailed and blacklisted in 1950 for…Trending
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