Tina Turner's Song, Proud Mary

Lena Horne was born on June 30 1917 in Brooklyn , New York City . Her Father Teddy Horne , and her mom Edna left her when she was three , lena was raised by her grandparents Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne . When they died Lena Lived with a friend of her mother Laura Rollock . From an early age Horne had became a performer , 1934 lena took voice lessons . In 1935 she became the feuture singer with the Noble Sissle Society Orchestra , which performed at many first rate hotel ballrooms and night club. She left sissle in 1936 to perform as a single in variety of New York City clubs . Lena Horne is a Actress and Singer . Horne has two children Lena Horne is known as one of the most popular African American entertainers of the twentieth century. A woman of great

Beyonce Knowles was born Beyonce Giselle Knowles on September 4, 1981 to Mathew Knowles and Tina Beyince, in Houston, Texas. Knowles was enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child. At the age of eight Knowles met Latavia Roberson in the girl group

Bessie Smith was born around 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a poverty stricken family. First orphaned at a young age then adopted by relatives, she took to singing on the streets as a way to make extra money. At nine years old, she made her first appearance on stage at the Ivory Theater.3 By her late teens, she was performing in Moses Stokes's traveling minstrel show; later, in 1912, she joined the famous Rabbit Foot Minstrels. It was here that she met Ma Rainey, who took Smith under her wing and became her

Aretha Franklin was born March 25, 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee; to Barbara and Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. Her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist while her father was an itinerant preacher. Franklin’s father sermons were so emotionally driven that he was known as “million

On October 2, 1800 Nat Turner was born in Southampton, in the small town of Jerusalem in Virginia. Turner’s mother was one of hundreds of thousands native Africans enslaved and sent to North America around 1807-1808. While most of the Africans Americans during this time came from West Africa, Turner was supposedly from the

Nat Turner, who was born on October 2, 1800, lived in a time period that included many plantations that practiced slavery. Born as an African American, Nat automatically became a slave on Benjamin Turner’s plantation in Southampton County, Virginia. Turner’s mother, a slave from

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

Lena Horne was born on June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Teddy and Edna Scottron Horne. After her father left her at the age of two in order to pursue his gambling career; her mother leaving soon after that to pursue her acting career; she went to live with her grandparents. Through her grandparents influence she became involved with organizations like the NAACP, at an early age.

Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross in 1820 or 1821, on a plantation in Dorchester County, Buckton, Maryland, and the slave of Anthony Thompson. She was one of eleven children to

Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928. Her real name is Marguerite Johnson, but she later changed it to Maya. She was born in St. Louis, shortly after her birth her family up and move to Arkansaw. Maya grew up there in the rural parts of Arkansaw, and later married to a South African Freedom Fighter. She lived in Cairo with him, there she began her career as editor of the Arab Observer.

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Nat Turner was a slave son, who was born on October 2, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia, to Benjamin Turner. When Nat was born, Bisson pointed out "according to legend, his mother was so determined not to

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.

Maya Angelou was originally born Marguerite Anne Johnson, but she was known as Maya Angelou.. Maya Angelou, born on April 4, 1928, is the youngest daughter of Vivian Baxter Johnson and Bailey Johnson. Maya Angelou’s parents split while she was young; therefore, she and her older brother, Bailey , had to go live with their father’s mother, Anne Henderson , in Stamps , Arkansas. Maya Angelou’s older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed Marguerite “Maya”, derived from “My” or “Mya Sister”. At the age of eight, Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend, while visiting her mother. As a result to Angelou’s rape, her uncle killed her mother’s boyfriend. Maya Angelou was so shaken up about the incident that she stopped talking for five years. When she returned to the state of Arkansas, she was a virtual

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