My Life Of A Cab Calloway

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919. He was born in Cairo, Georgia and was the youngest of five children. He had a grandfather that was a slave, Jackie’s dad was a sharecropper and Mallie, Jackie’s mother, was a maid. His dad ran away from the family when Jackie was only an infant.

     Zora Neale Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the fifth of eight children to Reverend John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston. Zora was extraordinary person. When her mother

My famous Parisian, AKA Hank Williams Jr, was born on May 26, 1949. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His late father died 3 year later, leaving Hank and his mother

Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas, on March 31, 1878. He was born the third child of nine and the first son, of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson. After a few years of school, He went to work as a laborer to help support his family. Most of his childhood was spent working on boats and

Huey Long was birthed August 30, 1893, in a little countryside area called Winnfield Louisiana. He was born to the parent of Caledonia and Huey Long Senior. Huey being the seventh child of nine surviving children, was lucky because back then there so few opportunities for large families with a minute amount of money.

Dolph Briscoe Jr. was born in Uvalde, Texas in 1923. He was the son of a self-made cattle rancher and a direct descendant of Andrew Briscoe. Andrew Briscoe was one of the original signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Briscoe graduated

He was born in Washington D.C but later on he moved to New York City.

Rosa Louis McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4 , 1913. When Rosa was just a two years old, her father moved out, leaving her Mother and little brother, Sylvester to take of themselves. The small, split family then moved in with Rosa Grandparents, who

Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919. He was born to Mallie and Jerry Robinson. He was the first of 5 children and, like most last children, got the short end of the stick on everything. Jackie 's parents got divorced when Jackie was just a few years old, he stayed with his mom. This was very hard for Jackie because it was very hard to be a African American in the early 1900 's, especially when you only have one parent. to you. After this happened Jackie and his

     While he was there he met a lot of black people that didn’t seem like an Uncle Tom, and they didn’t try to act white. When he got back his attitude toward white people had totally changed. Everyone swore that there was something wrong with him. He ended up then moving to Boston to live with his sister Ella. He started hanging out in the ghetto area, and started smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. One of his best friends there was named Shorty. He became a big fan of Swing, and he started learning ebonics.

Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, 1892,few years later she moved to Waxahachie,Texas where she is living on a farm. When she was nine,her dad left to go back to the Indian Territory,and her mom didn’t want to go with him , so he left. All the time she would skip school to help her mom pick cotton. Years later when Coleman graduated from high school, she went to college at Langston University in Oklahoma. After the first semester she was forced to dropped out because she didn’t have enough money to stay in college.

He appeared on stage and in films before his death in 1994, at age 86, in Hockessin, Delaware. In 1930, Calloway got a gig at Harlem's acclaimed Cotton Club. Before long, as the bandleader of Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, he turned into a standard entertainer at the

Billie Holiday, whose real name is Eleanora Gough, was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1915. She grew up mostly in Baltimore and always loved jazz. Billie was born to very young parents. Her mother was thirteen when she was born and her father just fifteen. (www.numberonestars.com, 2010)

Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15, 1894, she was one of seven children, and her father died soon after her birth, leaving her mother to take care of her and her siblings. In 1906 her mother and two of her brothers passed away and Bessie and her other siblings were taken care of by their aunt. It was after this that Smith began

Cab Calloway arose from an era where racism against black jazz musicians was present and drug addiction seemed to consume the majority of these musicians ' lives. It was no surprise that Cab Calloway pursued a career as an entertainer. He grew up in a family that consisted of musicians and performers, although it was expected that he would follow in his fathers foot steps and become a lawyer. Around the mid to late 1920s Cab Calloway assembled his own band and they were known as the Alabamians. Although his time with the Alabamians was short lived, he eventually became bandleader of a big band called the Missourians. Cab Calloway and the Missourians became an instant hit and sensation. They performed in popular clubs such as Savoy Theater and The Cotton Club. As stated in the article Cab Calloway and The Cotton Club written by Kinsley Suer, "Cab quickly became so popular that his band, which had been