November 22, 1986 Benjamin Sherman “Scatman” Crothers, actor, singer and musician, died. Crothers was born May 23, 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. He started his career as a 15 year old drummer in a speakeasy band and by the 1930s had his own band.
Archive | November 22, 2010
November 22nd in African American History – Johnnie Tillmon Blackston
November 22, 1995 Johnnie Tillmon Blackston, welfare reformer, died. Blackston was born in 1926 in Scott, Arkansas. The daughter of sharecropper’s, she never finished high school. When things went bad in Arkansas, she left her first husband and moved to Los Angeles, California with her six children. There she worked in a laundry and received […]