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Bob Dylan
- In these groups:
- Best Song Oscar Winners
- Famous Lefties
- Folk Singers and Folk Revolutionaries
Bob Dylan
Songwriter, Singer / 1941 -
Bob Dylan is a folk rock singer-songwriter whose career began in the early 1960s with songs that chronicled social issues like war and civil rights.
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Whitney Young Jr.
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- Famous Leos
- Famous Black Activists
- Famous Civil Rights Activists
Whitney Young Jr.
Civil Rights Activist / 1921 - 1971
Whitney Young Jr. was the head of the Urban League for 10 years and a lifelong advocate of civil and equal rights.
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Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1949 -
Jessica Lange is an award-winning American actress best known for her roles in King Kong, Tootsie and Grey Gardens.
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Loni Anderson
- In these groups:
- Marilyn Mimics
- Famous Leos
- Famous Actresses
Loni Anderson
Film Actress, Television Actress, Pin-up / 1946 -
Loni Anderson is a TV actress notable for her sexy role as Jennifer Marlowe on the series WKRP in Cincinnati.
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Peter Graves
- In these groups:
- Celebrity Enlistees
- Famous Military Veterans
- Famous Pisceans
Peter Graves
Actor, Television Personality / 1926 - 2010
Peter Graves was an enormously successful film and TV actor. He is known for his role in Airplane! and for hosting A&E's signature series Biography.
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Roy Wilkins
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- Famous Harlem Residents
- Famous Virgoans
- Famous Black Activists
Roy Wilkins
Civil Rights Activist, Editor, Journalist / 1901 - 1981
Roy Wilkins was best known as the executive director of the NAACP and a leader of the African-American civil rights movement.
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View groupMany African-Americans left their country to escape the confines of racism, segregation and McCarthyism in the United States. As a result, an entirely new African-American subculture sprouted up in Europe, Africa and other countries abroad. A street in Paris is named after Josephine Baker, who found acceptance and fame in France that she couldn't achieve in the still-segregated United States. Marcus Garvey was a leader of the Back-to-Africa movement. And singer Nina Simone lived in several different countries, including Liberia, Switzerland, England and Barbados before eventually settling down in the South of France. Find out more about these African-American expats, and the new lives they made for themselves abroad, on Biography.com.
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The 69 Club
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Cowboy Country Singers
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- Roy Rogers
- Dale Evans
- Gene Autry
Cowboy Country Singers
View groupDuring the 1930s, partly to avoid the hillbilly image and partly owing to Hollywood's romance with the West, country music headed to the range. Western fringe and cowboy hats turned up on many singers onstage, while Gene Autry and Roy Rogers hit the country charts as "The Singing Cowboy" and the "King of the Cowboys," respectively. Autry made it big in Hollywood and on the radio, singing favorites like "Here Comes Santa Claus" and "Frosty the Snowman." Rogers and his wife, "Queen of the West" Dale Evans, also straddled the worlds of music and movies with their Wild West personas.
The association of country music with the wide open spaces of the western United States made such a deep impact on popular culture during this time that it never quite faded from the public perception of the country genre. To this day, Cowboy Country music serves as a reminder of our continued yearning for a life that's beautiful, pastoral and—ultimately—more simple.
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