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in the Gospel of St. Luke, kinsman of St. Jude. The original does not specify the relationship....
1911–38, African-American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, b. Hazelhurst, Miss. A sharecropper’s son, he grew up absorbing the music of De...
1906–2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study mo...
1780–1850, Vice President of the United States (1837–41), b. Kentucky, on the site of present Louisville. Admitted (1802) to the bar, he became pr...
1871–1938, American author, b. Jacksonville, Fla., educated at Atlanta Univ. (B.A., 1894) and at Columbia. Johnson was the first African American to...
(br n´) (KEY) , c.1170–1237, French crusader. He was a count and in 1210 married Mary, titular queen of Jerusalem. Mary died in 1212, and their da...