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Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson at Wiley College, a historically black college related to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (now The United Methodist Church), to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a fear for African Americans.
Henry Lowe was born on April 9, 1939, in St. Andrew, Jamaica. His family was "far from being wealthy" and were devout Catholics. His father David was a Cabinet Member and his mother Josephine was a part-time tailor and a homemaker. [1] Lowe was the fourth of ten children. [2] At four years old Lowe was enrolled at the Woods' infant school.
In 2007, Parker played the role of Henry Lowe in the Denzel Washington-directed film The Great Debaters. The character was based on the real-life debater Henry Heights, from Wiley College. Parker attended a debate boot camp to make his performance more authentic. [20] He portrayed a multifaceted character.
Henry Lowe (scientist) (born 1939), Jamaican scientist, philanthropist and businessman Henry Lowe (politician) (1652–1717), planter, soldier and politician in colonial Maryland Harry Lowe (footballer, born March 1886) (Henry Charles Lowe, 1886–1958), English footballer for Gainsborough Trinity, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest
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The 1930 Wiley College debate team. Wells is in the center of the front row. Henrietta Bell Wells (October 11, 1912 – February 27, 2008) was the first female member of the debate team at historically black Wiley College in Texas.
Colonel Henry Lowe (1652-1717) was a planter, soldier and politician in Colonial Maryland. Born in Denby in Derbyshire in 1652, in 1674 Lowe sailed to Calvert County, Maryland where he was granted land by Lord Baltimore, and by 1695 had settled in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Lowe was an active member of the Maryland Provincial Assembly.
David J. Lowe’s schizophrenia prevented him from understanding what he was doing was wrong, according to a recently released report from psychologist Nathan Henry with the state of Washington ...