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La Roux (/ l ɑː ˈ r uː / lah-ROO) are an English synth-pop act formed in 2008 by singer Elly Jackson and record producer Ben Langmaid. The act's debut album La Roux (2009) was a critical and commercial success, winning a Grammy Award and producing hit singles such as "In for the Kill" and "Bulletproof".
John Jackson (February 24, 1924 – January 20, 2002) [1] was an American Piedmont blues musician. Music was not his primary activity until his accidental "discovery" by the folklorist Chuck Perdue in the 1960s. Jackson had effectively given up playing in his community in 1949.
Eleanor Virden Jackson Piel (September 22, 1920 – November 26, 2022) was an American civil rights lawyer. She entered civil rights law after United States v. Masaaki Kuwabara, a case where interned Japanese Americans were tried for declining to be drafted. She practiced law until she was in her early 90s.
According to MGM records, the film earned $280,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $275,000 in other markets, resulting in a loss of $154,000. [ 1 ] Shirley Jackson, the author of the novel on which Lizzie was based, was reportedly unimpressed with the screenplay, writing "I have read the screen play and it sounds a little like Ma and Pa Kettle , or ...
Billie Holiday – singer; lived with her mother at 108 West 139th Street [43] Casper Holstein – gangster; Lena Horne – singer and actress; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue [42] Langston Hughes – writer [44] Zora Neale Hurston – writer [44] Bumpy Johnson – gangster; lived in Lenox Terrace at 132nd Street and Lenox Avenue near the end of ...
Jackson was born as Kattie B. Screws [1] [2] in Clayton, Alabama on May 4, 1930, the elder daughter of Martha (née Upshaw; December 14, 1907 – April 30, 1990) and Prince Albert Screws (October 16, 1907 – January 21, 1997). Jackson contracted polio at age two, which left her with a noticeable limp. In 1934, her father changed his surname to ...
In 1853, Elinor met Thomas Jackson, then a professor at the Virginia Military Institute, at her father's home in Lexington.Jackson was a frequent visitor to the Junkin home; the shy young professor and the old college president were united by common interests in theology and Presbyterian doctrine, and Elinor and Jackson both taught at the Presbyterian Sunday school in Lexington.
She married Richard Collins in 1942 and remained married for 70 years. [7] Together they moved to Burnaby in 1948 with her four children, Rick, Judith, Barry and Tom. [5] [3] As the only black family in the neighbourhood, her neighbours started an unsuccessful petition to prevent them from moving in. [4] [5] [8] [6] Her children were bullied at school. [8]