2006 Census

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2006 Census
The following is a listing of just a few
prominent Blacks who passed in the year 2006.
They will remain an inspiration for generations
to come. Share these with the young, the older
and the adult. For we are all the children of
HISTORY! If you and your family lost someone last
year or recently, share their story. LEARN
ENJOY!!
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Ed Bradley
Bradley's 60 MINUTES interview with condemned
Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh (March 2000)
was the only television interview ever given by
the man guilty of one of the worst terrorist acts
on American soil.
"Death by Denial" (June 2000) won a Peabody Award
for focusing on the plight of Africans dying of
AIDS and helped convince drug companies to donate
and discount AIDS drugs
JournalistJune 22, 1941 Philadelphia, PA
November 9, 2006 New York, NY
Won an emmy for his hour on 60 MINUTES II about
sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, "The
Catholic Church on Trial" (June 2002).
Reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial
murder case of Emmett Till.
He was born in Philadelphia. He grew up in a
single parent household and learned the value of
hard work from his mother. He attended Cheyney
State College graduating in 1964 with a degree in
Education. His first job was teaching sixth
grade. While he was teaching he moonlighted at
KDAS in Philadelphia working for free and later
minimum wage. He programmed music, read news and
covered basketball games.His introduction to
news reporting came during the riots in
Philadelphia in the 1960's. In 1967 he landed a
full-time job at the CBS-owned New York radio
station WCBS in 1967. His distinctive body of
work have been recognized with numerous awards,
including 19 Emmys
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Carl Maxie Brashear
January 19, 1931 Tonieville, KY July 25, 2006
Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA
The first African American to become a U.S. Navy
Master Diver in the early 1950s. In 2000,
Brashears military service was portrayed by Cuba
Gooding, Jr. in the film Men of Honor.
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James Joe Brown, Jr. Dec 25, 2006
SingerMay 3, 1933 Dec 25, 2006 Barnswell,
South Carolina
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Ruth Brown RB SingerNov 17
January 12, 1928 Portsmith, VirginiaNovember 17,
2006 Henderson, NV
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Octavia Estelle ButlerScience Fiction Author
(June 22, 1947 February 24, 2006)


Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she
was a child, her mother was a maid who brought
her along on jobs, yet Octavia Butler rose from
these humble beginnings to become one of the
country's leading writers - an African American
FEMALE pioneer in the white-male domain of
science fiction.
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1913 - James Cameron - June 13, 2006Lynching
Survivor/AuthorFounder/DirectorAmerica's Black
Holocaust Museum, Inc.Milwaukee, Wisconsin
August 7, 1930. The night James Cameron's life
changed forever. A day before, he and two other
young Black men were arrested for the robbery,
rape and assault of a White couple in Marion,
Indiana. James is in a cell in the Grant County
Jail. There is a lynch mob outside numbering into
the thousands. James is sixteen years old.The
mob comes into the jail and grabs one of men
accused, with James, of the crime. He is beaten
unconscious, dragged outside and lynched. The
second man is then given the same treatment. The
bodies of these two men, Tom Shipp, 18, and
Abraham Smith, 19, hanging from a tree is
depicted in a famous and disturbing photograph to
the right. The mob now comes for James. He is
beaten and dragged out to the tree where his
friends now hang and the rope is placed around
his neck. It is at this moment that James
remembers hearing what he describes as an angelic
voice above the crowd say "Take this boy back, he
had nothing to do with any killing or rape."
Suddenly the hands that were beating him are now
helping him. The rope is taken from around his
neck and the crowd clears a path for him to walk
back to the jail. In interviews he later
conducted with people who were in the crowd, no
one remembers hearing any voice. Their reason for
why the crowd did not lynch James "You were
lucky that night." Though James never admitted
any guilt in the assault (he admits that he was
there), he served 4 years in prison. The female
victim later changed her story and confirmed that
James had no part in the assault.



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Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon
February 18, 1950 November 27, 2006
Bebe Moore Campbell is a bestselling author and a
journalist. Her nonfiction work has appeared in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise,
Ebony, Working Mother, USA Weekend, and Adweek,
among other publications. She was a regular
contributor to National Public Radio. Bebe Moore
Campbell is the author of BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR, YOUR BLUES AIN'T
LIKE MINE, and WHAT YOU OWE ME. Campbell was born
and grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from
the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a
bachelor of science degree in elementary
education. She taught elementary and middle
school for five years. She is survived by her
husband, Ellis Gordon, Jr., her daughter, the
actress Maia Campbell, and a son, Ellis Gordon
III.
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Tamara Dobson Model/ActressOct 2
May 14, 1947 Baltimore, MD - October 2, 2006
Baltimore, MD
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Coretta Scott King Civil Rights Activist
April 27, 1927 Heiberger (Near Marion),
AL January 30, 2006 Playas de Rosarito, Mexico

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Gerald Levert
Singer July 13, 1966 Cleveland, OH November 10,
2006
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Gene McFadden1949 Philadelphia, PA January 27,
2006 Philadelphia, PA
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now w/John Whitehead
McFadden and Whitehead also wrote hits such as
"Back Stabbers" and the much-sampled "For the
Love of Money" for the O'Jays, as well as "Wake
Up Everybody, "Bad Luck" and "Where Are All My
Friends" for Harold Melvin and the Blue
Notes. "Don't Let Love Get You Down" for Archie
Bell the Drells, "I'll Always Love My Mama" for
the Intruders and "Be Truthful to Me" for Billy
Paul, as well as "The More I Get, the More I
Want" and "Cold, Cold World" for Teddy
Pendergrass. In 2004, his writing partner John
Whitehead was shot dead in Philadelphia while
changing a tire on his car in Phili. Survived
by Wife and four children.
Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Producer
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Harry Boom Boom McGilberry, Jr.
January 19, 1950 April 3, 2006
A former BASS vocal and member of the
Temptations. He was said to be Melvin Franklin
reincarnated. He appeared on both the Phoenix
Rising and Ear-Resistable CD/LPs.
Temp Trivia Otis Williams is the only living
original, but living or dead, how many
Temptations have there been? 21 or 25
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John Jordan "Buck" O'NeilBaseball
PlayerNovember 13, 1911 Carrabelle, FlOctober
6, 2006
O'Neil served as a first baseman and manager in
the Negro Leagues from 1937-1955. In 1962,
O'Neil became the first African-American coach
in the Major Leagues with the Chicago Cubs
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Floyd PattersonBoxer
55-8-1 and 40 knockouts
Before Mike Tyson, Patterson became the youngest
world heavyweight champion when he beat Archie
Moore in 1956 at the age of 21.
January 4, 1935 Waco, N. Carolina - May 11,
2006 New Paltz, NY
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Wilson Wicked PickettSingerMay 18, 1941
Prattville, ALJanuary 19, 2006 Ashburn, VA
Mustang Sally Dont Let the Green Grass Fool
You Funky Broadway In The Midnight Hour I Found A
Love (Pt 1.) Shes Looking Good 634-5789
Soulsville, USA Land of 1000 Dances Man and A Half
Rock Roll Hall of Fame
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June PointerNovember 30, 1953 - April 11, 2006

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William Everett Billy Preston
September 2, 1946 Houston, TX June 6, 2006
Scottsdale, AR
Nat Cole 10 year old Billy.
Raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In
addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career
as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some
of the greatest names in the music industry,
including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Little
Richard, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Eric
Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy
Jones, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. He played
the electric piano on the Get Back Sessions in
1969 and is highly credited as being the "Fifth
or Black Beatle". He is, in fact, the only person
to receive label performance credit on any
Beatles record. It is also said that, He made
the greats even greater!
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Kirby PuckettBaseball PlayerMarch 14, 1960
Chicago, ILMarch 6, 2006 Phoenix, AZ
A center fielder in Major League Baseball who
played his entire career with the Minnesota Twins
from 1984 to 1995. Puckett led the Twins to World
Series titles in 1987 and 1991, the only two
championships for the franchise since their move
to Minnesota in 1961.
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Louis Allen RawlsSingerDecember 1, 1933
Chicago, ILJanuary 6, 2006
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Arthur WinstonMarch 22, 1906 Oklahoma April
13, 2006 LA, California
A picture of Arthur Winston taken at age 99.
Left w/Great Nephew Eric
Was a Los Angeles Metro employee for 72 years.
His hourly salary was 41 cents an hour when he
began work for the Los Angeles Railway in 1924.
He has set a record as the most reliable worker
that the United States Department of Labor has
ever chronicled. He worked for 72 years without
ever being late, and having only taken off a
single day (in 1988 for the funeral of his wife
Frances). In 1996, President Bill Clinton awarded
him with an "Employee of the Century" citation
for his work ethic and dedication. On his
remarkable record "It's easy. You just get up
and go to work," said Winston on his 100th
birthday, "It ain't no trouble. You've got to
like your job in the first place. I don't lay
around and play sick work two days, sick five
days. People are just using this sick leave
business. "The Arthur Winston Busyard (Division 5
in South Bay) was named in his honor in Los
Angeles. His 100th birthday advice for kids
growing up today? "My advice to them is to just
get up and go to work." .