THE BANJO by HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
October 18
1917—“Dizzy” Gillespie, bandleader and pioneer of “B-bop Jazz,” is born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, S.C.
1945—Actor, singer, activist...
by Kathleen Frydl, Johns Hopkins University
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released...
