Respect where it's due: BM/WW IR in History

Geek,I remember reading about the late Botswanna leader in the Dec 1978 issue of Ebony magazine. After read the entry about him in Wikapedia he inspired two books and a tv movie called "A Marriage of Inconvenience". Also,the relationship between Peggy Cripps and Nana Joe Appiah inspired the movie "Guess Who's Comming For Dinner".

 

True that Soul. According to that book I read on Billie's life she pretty much ended everybody's name that she liked with "dahling"!

 

Daniel G. Hill, [ca. 1960]


Daniel Hill’s active life was sadly limited by illness after his retirement from public office in 1989. Diabetes-related complications severely hampered his ability to walk and to see, and after a long and difficult struggle with the disease, he died on June 26, 2003 at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital-just a short walk from the Pembroke Street rooming house where he had first settled in 1950 when he came to Canada to study at the University of Toronto.
More than 1,000 people came out to mourn the death of Daniel Hill and to pay their last respects to him at a memorial service held on September 9, 2003 at the Metropolitan United Church in Toronto.
On Sunday, July 6, 2003 a tribute to Daniel Hill, written by Lawrence Hill, appeared in the Toronto Star. To see a pdf version of the tribute, click here[/color].

Article from the Toronto Star, A Tribute - Dad will always ‘live within us’, July 6, 2003
Courtesy of Lawrence Hill.
Used with the permission of the Toronto Star Archives.​

 

Nobledruali,thanks for bring the pix on Cripps and Appiah.

 

Yeah I've read up on that story as well bro, very interesting indeed to read up on how they dealt with the issues over their relationship.

 

This is an outstanding thread. Enjoyed it very much!

 

This is such a moving tribute from the son I just had to sit and reflect and actually ..... cry. Amazing words and love

 

Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare

Was Miss World 1976


Marley's song,"Turn Your Lights Down Low",was about her.


was dating Marley while Bob was still married


....to Rita






She's Daimen's Mother



he's a musician in his own right

 

Without the silly little connections to historical figures and Tiger-damn-Woods.

For the most part I agree.

 

I knew Cindy Breakspeare is White but,there were not many photos from the Marley biographies I saw. When I speak to Jamaicans about her they said she is "Jamaican Red".

 

lippy would like to give a shout out to silver for this thread...i wonder if she realizes what a contribution she has made to the forum long after she was bullied, harrassed and stalked by bw that regularly posted on the forum forcing her to get fed up and leave...it's really too bad that the guidelines back then were not enforced so that we would still have silver here today...consistency would have been key in keeping members and growing the base of membership rather than having a revolving door here on the forum...

miss you silver:smt049

 

:smt033

 

Many thanks to Silver this thread will not die.

 

True that Soul!!!

 

Ernest Just & Hedwig Schnetzler

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Dr. Ernest E. Just was one of the first African Americans to receive worldwide recognition as a scientist. Born August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina, Just was only four years old when his father, Charles Fraser Just, died in 1887. Due to mounting debt, his mother, Mary Just, moved with her children from Charleston to James Island, a Gullah community off the coast of South Carolina to work in its phosphate mines. While on the Island, Mary Just became a highly respected leader of the community and convinced a number of residents on the Island to purchase land and start their own community. The residents renamed the community, Maryville, in her honor.

In 1896 Just was sent to attend the high school of the Colored Normal Industrial, Agricultural & Mechanical College (later named South Carolina State University). Believing that he would receive a superior education by attending a college preparatory school in the North, Just enrolled in Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire in 1900. Although he was Kimball Union's only black student, Just recalled being in a warm and welcoming environment where he excelled in social activities and academics. After graduation from Kimball Union, Just entered Dartmouth College in 1903. In contrast to his experience at Kimball Union, Just felt alone and socially isolated at Dartmouth. Nonetheless, Just graduated magna cum laude in biology in 1907 and took a minor in history. He was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

After receiving his degree Just accepted a position at Howard University as an instructor of rhetoric and English and in 1910 later joined the Department of Biology. He was appointed Professor in the Department in 1912. While at Howard Just helped to found Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in 1911. Omega Psi Phi was the first black Greek letter organization founded at a historically black university.

Just worked for many years at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. At the laboratory, Just realized that a doctorate in the sciences was key to his success and he began a program of self-study at the University of Chicago and later earned a doctorate in 1916. After completing his doctorate Just published 50 scientific papers and two influential books, Basic Methods for Experiments on Eggs of Marine Mammals (1922) and Biology of the Cell Surface (1939).

Despite his Ph.D., Just could not find work at any major American university. He moved to Europe and continued his research in Naples, Italy. In 1930, however, Just became the first American to be invited to conduct research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Germany. His research ended when the Nazis took control of Germany in 1933. Just relocated to Paris to continue his research.

Just married Ethel Highwarden in 1912. The couple had three children but the marriage suffered due to his long absences from home. He and Ethel divorced in 1939. That same year Just married Maid Hedwig Schnetzler,
a German national. Ernest Just was working at the Station Biologique in Roscoff, France when the Germans invaded the country. He was held briefly in a prisoner-of-war camp until rescued by the U.S. State Department and brought back to the U.S. in 1940. Just had been ill for months before his incarceration as a POW but his condition deteriorated during his imprisonment and on the return journey to the United States. He died on October 27, 1941 in Washington, D.C., shortly after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

 

^^^ Good find

Stephen Jay Gould wrote a very interesting essay on Ernest Just entitled "Just in the Middle", explaining how prescient he was in identifying the role of environmental pressures between mechanism and vitalism, though emphasizing his technological shortcomings. Just has been resuscitated in the on going debate surrounding "ecological developmental biology". It's good to see scientists still taking interest in his work.

 

Check out these pics;



Pearl Bailey and Louie Bellson




Betty & Barney Hill




Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Walmisley




Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt

 

Marianne Faithfull Regrets Not Having An Affair With Jimi Hendrix



From the book JIMI HENDRIX, The Ultimate Experience

(Jan 12, 1967)...But once he began playing, he transformed. The music was sexually charged and direct. I had the feeling he was playing just for me which, since the place was empty, was probably true. I'm such a fool. I should have hung around and seduced him but, typically, I ran away.

(Mar 16, 1967)...Jimi came over to the table and pulled up a chair next to me and began whispering in my ear. He was saying anything he could think of to get me to go home with him. All the things he wanted to do to me sexually...I wanted more than anything to go with him, but I couldn't do it. Mick (Jagger) would never have forgiven me.

(Hendrix Died On Sept 18, 1970) I didn't have an affair with him. It's my only lasting regret in life.