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Nat Love, (pronounced "Nate") [2] was born into slavery on the plantation of Robert Love in Davidson County, Tennessee on June 14, 1854. [1] [3] His father was a slave foreman who worked in the plantation's fields, and his mother the manager of its kitchen. [4] [5] Love had two siblings: an older sister, Sally, and an older brother, Jordan. [4] [3]
Ned Cobb, a.k.a. Nate Shaw, at 22, with his wife, Viola, and their son Andrew, in 1907. Ned Cobb (also known as Nate Shaw) (1885–1973) was an African-American tenant farmer born in Tallapoosa County in Alabama.
[1] and the School Library Journal wrote "Exciting and picturesque, Nat Love's life makes for a great graphic novel." [ 1 ] Best Shot in the West has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine , [ 2 ] Library Media Connection , [ 3 ] Voice of Youth Advocates , [ 4 ] Publishers Weekly , [ 5 ] Kirkus Reviews , [ 6 ] and the Tennessee Tribune .
He was born John Henry Clark on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama, [4] the youngest child of John Clark, a sharecropper, and Willie Ella Clark, a washer woman, who died in 1922. [5]). With the hopes of earning enough money to buy land rather than sharecrop, his family moved to the closest mill town in Columbus, Georgia .
These included American cowboy Nat Love and Bass Reeves, the first Black Deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi, who some believe was the model for the Lone Ranger. Flemons duly wrote a song about the leading black movie cowboy of his time, Bill Pickett , and used other stories including cowboys who became Pullman porters and, in turn ...
A photo of Baker from 1954 Baker c. 1957. Baker began singing in Chicago clubs such as the Club DeLisa in 1946, [7] often billed as Little Miss Sharecropper, [8] and first recorded under that name in 1949, leading to a recording deal with that title for National Records in 1951, shortly before it folded. [9]
Love Songs brings together tracks from throughout Nat "King" Cole's recording career with Capitol records. The swing pianist turned ballad vocalist had a prolific chart run in the 1950s. The swing pianist turned ballad vocalist had a prolific chart run in the 1950s.
Stone's version was released digitally on September 18, 2007, [10] reaching number 100 on the UK singles chart and number 75 on the Swiss Hitparade. [11] [12] It was later included as a bonus track on the deluxe version of her third studio album, Introducing Joss Stone (2007), as well as on her compilation album The Best of Joss Stone 2003 ...