1 – Black Fact = 1936 (March 12)- Virginia Hamilton, an award-winning author of juvenile fiction including “House of Dies Drear,” “M.C. Higgins the Great,” and “Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush,” was born in Yellow Springs, OH, on this date.
2– Black Fact = 1932 (March 12)- Andrew Jackson Young, Jr., UN Ambassador and Atlanta, GA, mayor, was born in New Orleans, LA, on this date in 1932. Young was Co-Chair of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
3– Black Fact = 1982 (March 12) – Charles Fuller won the “Pulitzer Prize” for A Soldier’s Play on this date.
4– Black Fact = 1955 (March 12) – A founder of the modern jazz movement, Charlie “Yard bird” Parker, died on this date.
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