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"John Roy Lynch: U.S. Congressman from Mississippi", Negro History Bulletin, 37 (April/May 1974): 238–41. Schweninger, Loren. Black Property Owners in the South 1790–1915 (Urbana, Ill., 1990) The Amazing World of John Roy Lynch (Eerdmans Publishing, 2015), a biography for children, written by Chris Barton and illustrated by Don Tate.
John R. Lynch was born into slavery in 1847 and was freed in 1863 after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He entered politics shortly after the end of the Civil War, was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1869, and was made speaker of the house in 1872.
Walker was born in 1969 in Stockton, California. [8] Her father, Larry Walker, was a painter and professor. [8] [9] [10] Her mother Gwendolyn was an administrative assistant.[11] [12] A 2007 review in New York Times described her early life as calm, noting that "nothing about [Walker's] very early life would seem to have predestined her for this task.
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch, illustrated by Don Tate (2015) 'The Nutcracker' Comes to America: How Three Ballet-Loving Brothers Created a Holiday Tradition, illustrated by Cathy Gendron (2015) Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions, illustrated by Don Tate (2016) Spanish edition: ¡Fushhh!: El chorro del inventos ...
Fons Americanus was a sculpture, taking the form of a functional fountain adorned with allegorical scenes and figures, created by American artist Kara Walker.The sculpture was housed in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall from late 2019 to early 2020, and was destroyed at the end of its time there.
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The famed tech journalist published a memoir, ‘Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,’ about her career covering the world’s most famous tech executives.
On July 27, 1919, a teenage African-American boy was killed after a white man threw a stone that hit him. The resulting community response led to violence leaving 38 people dead and 537 wounded, and came to be known as the Chicago race riot of 1919.