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MADELINE GAYLE “ASALI” DICKSON![]()
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"M. Gayle Dickson, also known as Asali, was the only woman graphic artist for the Black Panther Party Newspaper between 1972 and 1974. Dickson was born in Berkeley, California on June 27, 1948 to James Stowers, a dry cleaner owner, and Madeline Stowers, a seamstress. After her parents divorced two years later, she moved with her mother and siblings to Oakland. At an early age, Dickson began a pattern of drawing that was nurtured in the Oakland Public Schools. In 1966, she graduated from Fremont High School and attended Laney Community College where she studied painting. A year later, she transferred to Merritt College, a hub for black student political protest, and learned about African cultural heritage through African masks. While there, she also joined the Black Student Union and engaged in a protest against police brutality at the Housewives Market in downtown Oakland after police assassinated Bobby Hutton."![]()
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www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/madeline-gayle-asali-d...![]()
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wandasabir.blogspot.com/2009/10/women-of-black-panther-party.html?m=1
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MICHAEL LEROY TAYLOR![]()
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"Best known for his role as President of the Pacific Northwest Black Community Festival, Michael Leroy Taylor spent most of his life working and volunteering in the two communities he lived in: Monroe, Michigan, and Seattle, Washington. Born in Monroe, Michigan on June 26, 1950, Taylor was the eldest of six children to James Leroy and Virginia (Aaron) Taylor. Growing up in Monroe, his community work began while in high school where was employed part-time as a counselor at the Arthur Leslow Community Center. There, even though he was a teenager, he coached young men’s baseball and basketball teams. In 1968 he graduated from Monroe High School. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Taylor was active in the Monroe Local Chapter of the Black Panthers."![]()
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www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/michael-leroy-taylor-1...
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"Ernest Frederick Morrison was the first black child movie star signed to a long-term contract and is most famous for his role in the Our Gang/ Little Rascals series. Morrison was born on December 20, 1912 to Louise (Lewis) and Joseph Ernest Morrison, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He made his unofficial movie debut as an infant, filling in for another child that would not stop crying. He was given the nickname “Sunshine” by the crew, and later went on to use the names Sunshine Sambo, Little Sambo, Sunshine Sammy, Ernie, or just Sammy. Morrison made his official movie debut in 1916, in The Soul of a Child, at age three. From 1917 to 1922, Morrison appeared in a series of silent films produced by Harold Lloyd, alongside then-child actor Marie Osborne, produced in New York."![]()
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www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/ernest-frederick-morri...![]()
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Sammy_Morrison