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When Leonard Muse (1923-2017) was young, a neighbor asked him to go to the pharmacy to fill a prescription. When he arrived, he was tired and sat down to wait for the prescription to be filled. But he was immediately told, “you can’t sit there.”Leonard “Doc” Muse in front of Green Valley Pharmacy, 1980. Photo by Lloyd Wolf.
He later recalled this incident in an interview with Arlington Library’s Center for Local History. “So, I went out and sat on the sidewalk until they filled the prescription. And I had the idea, I said, well, we need a pharmacy where we can sit wherever we want to –”.
And so he did. He studied pharmacy at Howard University, got his degree in 1948, and in 1952, along with his business partner Waverly Jones, “Doc” Muse opened Green Valley Pharmacy at 2415 Shirlington Road.
The pharmacy served predominantly Black customers in this historic neighborhood, founded by freed slaves in the 1800s.
But his business also functioned as a gathering place for Black patrons who were largely unwelcomed in white neighborhoods, and included a lunch counter that provided free meals every Wednesday. It may have been the first Black-owned pharmacy in Arlington.
The pharmacy remained open until 2017, closing after the death of it''s longtime owner.
Doc Muse was 94 years old at his passing.
Leonard “Doc” Muse in front of Green Valley Pharmacy, 1980. Photo by Lloyd Wolf.
He later recalled this incident in an interview with Arlington Library’s Center for Local History. “So, I went out and sat on the sidewalk until they filled the prescription. And I had the idea, I said, well, we need a pharmacy where we can sit wherever we want to –”.
And so he did. He studied pharmacy at Howard University, got his degree in 1948, and in 1952, along with his business partner Waverly Jones, “Doc” Muse opened Green Valley Pharmacy at 2415 Shirlington Road.
The pharmacy served predominantly Black customers in this historic neighborhood, founded by freed slaves in the 1800s.
But his business also functioned as a gathering place for Black patrons who were largely unwelcomed in white neighborhoods, and included a lunch counter that provided free meals every Wednesday. It may have been the first Black-owned pharmacy in Arlington.
The pharmacy remained open until 2017, closing after the death of it''s longtime owner.
Doc Muse was 94 years old at his passing.
Leonard “Doc” Muse in front of Green Valley Pharmacy, 1980. Photo by Lloyd Wolf.
Remembering Italian-born American film and television actor, stuntman, and circus performer Felix Silla on his birthday (January 11, 1937 – April 16, 2021).
Known for his roles behind the mask as Cousin Itt on The Addams Family and Twiki on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Silla's other credits include Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, Battlestar Galactica, and Return of the Jedi.
Rose Marie McCoy(April 19, 1922 – January 20, 2015) was an American songwriter.She began her career as an aspiring singer before becoming a songwriter during the 1950s and 1960s.Many artists have recorded some of the over 800 songs she published, including Big Maybelle, James Brown, Ruth Brown, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, and Ike & Tina Turner.Information taken from various Internet sources
Jack Johnson standing victorious over Jim Jeffries as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in the most significant boxing match of all time, Reno, NV 4th of July 1910.
During the “Great White Hope” era, white America was desperate to find a white boxer to reclaim the title from the world’s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. After months of failed efforts, Jim Jeffries eventually caved to thousands of plea letters and emerged from a 6 year retirement from his undefeated boxing career as the country’s last hope. Jim took the fight so seriously, he lost 100 pounds during training. They fought, with 20,000 in attendance and the entire country listening in by telegraph. Objectively speaking, the fight itself was a clobbering. Jim was later quoted admitting defeat saying “I realize now I couldn’t have beaten him in a hundred years”. Immediately after Jack proved himself as the world’s true greatest boxer, an overwhelming amount of violence and race riots broke out in more than 50 cities across the country. Hundreds of blacks were injured and many were killed. Hospitals and jails were filled. The fallout resulted in Congress temporarily banning the interstate transportation of fight films. This was the first time the US federal government had stepped in and enforced censorship in motion pictures. It is also the first time Congress involved itself directly in a sports-related matter. Johnson’s wealthy, illustrious, and unapologetic lifestyle garnered him more death threats than any athlete in history.
Once, Johnson was pulled over and fined $50 for speeding, but he gave the officer a $100 bill and exclaimed “you might as well keep it because I’m coming back the same way I came.” He dated only white women and was often with more than one at a time, but found deep true love with his wife Etta Duryea. As more threats and dangers met them at every turn, the weight of the country being against him and his wife began taking its toll. Etta was ostracized by the white and black communities alike and faced constant danger from being with him, so she often stayed at home alone. Jack did everything he could to help cure her depression, but to no avail. 2 years later, she tragically took her own life. Jack carried on fighting, winning, and world shaking fueled by the weight of black acceptance in America hanging in the balance. A year later, he was forced to flee the country in violation of the Mann Act for “transporting a white woman across state lines for ‘immoral purposes’”. He continued boxing in Canada, Europe, and South America. He returned in 1920 after losing his title and surrendered himself to serve a 1 year prison sentence. He died in a car crash after angrily speeding away from a diner that refused to serve him in 1946 at the age of 68.
During the “Great White Hope” era, white America was desperate to find a white boxer to reclaim the title from the world’s first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson. After months of failed efforts, Jim Jeffries eventually caved to thousands of plea letters and emerged from a 6 year retirement from his undefeated boxing career as the country’s last hope. Jim took the fight so seriously, he lost 100 pounds during training. They fought, with 20,000 in attendance and the entire country listening in by telegraph. Objectively speaking, the fight itself was a clobbering. Jim was later quoted admitting defeat saying “I realize now I couldn’t have beaten him in a hundred years”. Immediately after Jack proved himself as the world’s true greatest boxer, an overwhelming amount of violence and race riots broke out in more than 50 cities across the country. Hundreds of blacks were injured and many were killed. Hospitals and jails were filled. The fallout resulted in Congress temporarily banning the interstate transportation of fight films. This was the first time the US federal government had stepped in and enforced censorship in motion pictures. It is also the first time Congress involved itself directly in a sports-related matter. Johnson’s wealthy, illustrious, and unapologetic lifestyle garnered him more death threats than any athlete in history.
Once, Johnson was pulled over and fined $50 for speeding, but he gave the officer a $100 bill and exclaimed “you might as well keep it because I’m coming back the same way I came.” He dated only white women and was often with more than one at a time, but found deep true love with his wife Etta Duryea. As more threats and dangers met them at every turn, the weight of the country being against him and his wife began taking its toll. Etta was ostracized by the white and black communities alike and faced constant danger from being with him, so she often stayed at home alone. Jack did everything he could to help cure her depression, but to no avail. 2 years later, she tragically took her own life. Jack carried on fighting, winning, and world shaking fueled by the weight of black acceptance in America hanging in the balance. A year later, he was forced to flee the country in violation of the Mann Act for “transporting a white woman across state lines for ‘immoral purposes’”. He continued boxing in Canada, Europe, and South America. He returned in 1920 after losing his title and surrendered himself to serve a 1 year prison sentence. He died in a car crash after angrily speeding away from a diner that refused to serve him in 1946 at the age of 68.
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Those lousy rat bastards. Damn shame that they stole his fucking money. Some of these parents who have famous kids act like the money is there is because they made the kid and that shouldn't be the case. There should be a way of protecting the kids from their greedy-ass parents
Actor Gary Coleman and parents W.G. Coleman and Edmonia Coleman attend National Kidney Foundation Benefit Awards Dinner on January 24, 1982 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
It's sad that Maya Rudolph died so young; she never even got to experience Saturday Night Live.
You wild, man. I'm not even going to change it
Why would you? RIP Maya....bless her.
On this day in 1970, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision upholding the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to close, rather than integrate, a local public park in Macon, Georgia. In 1911, U.S. Senator Augustus O. Bacon executed his will, devising to the City of Macon, Georgia, “a park and pleasure ground” for white residents only. He explained that “in limiting the use and enjoyment of this property perpetually to white people, I am not influenced by any unkindness of feeling . . . I am, however, without hesitation in the opinion that in their social relations the two races . . . should be forever separate.” A large and lush recreation space, Baconsfield Park opened in 1920. As trustee of the park, the City of Macon honored Senator Bacon’s wishes and for decades operated it as a “white only” facility. That changed in 1963 when the city determined that, as a public entity, it could no longer constitutionally enforce segregation. Disgruntled, Baconsfield’s Board of Managers sued to remove the City of Macon as trustee and preserve the park as one for white residents only. In May 1963, Black citizens intervened, filing a lawsuit challenging Baconsfield’s racial restriction as a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, in February 1964, the City of Macon resigned as trustee; several months later the court appointed three private individuals as new trustees, and the racial segregation policy continued. Black residents appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In January 1966, the Court held in Evans v. Newton that Baconsfield could no longer be operated on a racially discriminatory basis: “the public character of this park requires that it be treated as a public institution subject to the command of the Fourteenth Amendment, regardless of who now has title under state law.” Rather than integrate, however, the Georgia Supreme Court responded by terminating the Baconsfield trust and closing the park to the public altogether.
The whistle walk" was the walk leading from the kitchen to the House. Enslaved people were required to whistle as they walked as whistling and chewing are incompatible simultaneous actions. It would also ensure that they did not eat or spit in Massa's food on the way to serve.
Remembering Cicely L. Tyson, who died 4 years ago today at 96 years old. Gone but not forgotten! Cicely Tyson was an actress and fashion model. In a career which spanned more than seven decades, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine and became a popular fashion model in the early 50s. Her first acting role was on the NBC series Frontiers of Faith in 1951. Tyson got her first play role in 1950 and her first film role in Carib Gold in 1956. Tyson appeared on the popular television series East Side/West Side and the soap opera The Guiding Light. She was nominated for the Academy and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for her performance as Rebecca Morgan in Sounder (1972), also winning the NSFC Best Actress and NBR Best Actress Awards. She starred in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), for which she won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. Tyson has been nominated for thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, winning three. In 2011, she appeared in the film The Help, for which she received awards for her ensemble work as Constantine from the BFCA and SAG Awards and she has an additional four SAG Award nominations. She starred on Broadway in The Trip to Bountiful as Carrie Watts, for which she won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Award, and Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play. She previously received a Drama Desk Award in 1962 for her Off-Broadway performance in Moon on a Rainbow Shawl. Tyson was named a Kennedy Center honoree in 2015. In November 2016, Tyson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian honor in the United States. In 2020, she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Tyson's memoir, Just As I Am, was published on January 26, 2021, and she was promoting the book during the last weeks of her life. When she was asked how she wanted to be remembered in an interview with Gayle King, Tyson said, "I’ve done my best. That’s all." Tyson died on January 28, 2021, at the age of 96. Her funeral was held February 16 in Harlem, and was attended by Tyler Perry, Lenny Kravitz, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
January 31, 1919 — Baseball legend Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia. He broke barriers and became the first black person to play in Major League Baseball. He also remains the only athlete to ever letter in four sports: baseball, football, basketball and track in UCLA history
26 year old Langston Hughes at Lincoln University in 1927 (he attended 1926-1929) —Born in Joplin, Missouri February 1, 1901 James Mercer Langston Hughes had already spent two years in Paris working as a busboy in a Montmartre restaurant owned by WWI pilot Eugene Jacques Bullard. It was in that club he first heard the music of Black American jazz greats who fled to France following the war. One of the earliest innovators of “jazz poetry”, Hughes is best known as the Poet Lauréat of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes died May 22, 1967 in NYC.—
Minnie! not Maya!! Minnie was her mom who died.
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