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Lola Falana
b. 9-11-1942; Camden, NJ
Dancer Lola Falana, who was “discovered” by Sammy Davis, Jr., while she was dancing in a nightclub, went on to appear on Broadway, films, and TV.
She has multiple sclerosis and no longer dances, spending her time on her ministry of helping children who have been orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
b. 4-27-1882; Fredricksville, New Jersey
d. 4-39-1961; Philadelphia (heart failure)
Jessie Redmon Fauset, a poet, novelist, essayist, is most noted as the literary editor of The Crisis (NAACP magazine) under W.E.B. Du Bois, a role for which Langston Hughes called her the “midwife of the Harlem Renaissance”.
Fauset, who earned a degree from Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and the Sorbonne, was also a teacher for many years.
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Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman
b. 1742; Claverack, New York
d. 12-28-1829; Stockbridge, MA
Elizabeth Freeman, known as Mumbet or Mum Bett, was one of the first black slaves to file a freedom suit and win in Massachusetts under the 1780 Constitution.
Freeman's history is pieced together by what she told others and historical records. After her heard a reading of the Massachusetts Constitution she sought out a young lawyer, also abolitionist, Theodore Sedgwick to press her case. After her freedom she chose to work for wages in the Sedgwick household.
From her tombstone: ELIZABETH FREEMAN, known by the name of MUMBET died Dec. 28th 1829. Her supposed age was 85 Years. She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal. She neither wasted time nor property. She never violated a trust, nor failed to perform a duty. In every situation of domestic trial, she was the most efficient helper and the tenderest friend. Good mother, farewell. (- she is buried in the Sedgwick family plot)
Her case, along with Quock (Kwaku) Walker's (1752-?) freedom suit, were responsible with helping abolish slavery in Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Freeman quote ~
• “Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it — just to stand one minute on God's airth a free woman — I would.”
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