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Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother was a church singer in his congregation. Thornton\u2019s mother died when the singer was 14, and she left home to pursue a career as an entertainer. She joined the Georgia-based Hot Harlem Revue as an accomplished singer, drummer, and harmonica player and spent seven years as a regular performer throughout the South. Following her years as a traveling blues singer, Thornton moved to Houston in 1948 to begin her recording career.\n In Houston, Thornton joined Don Robey\u2019s Peacock Records in 1951, often working closely with fellow label artist Johnny Otis. Her professional relationship with Otis and Robey proved fruitful for Thornton, who, along with \u0026ldquo;Little\u0026rdquo; Esther Phillips and Mel Walker, toured with Otis. Their tour traveled throughout the eastern and southern United States, including benchmark shows at Houston\u2019s Bronze Peacock and Harlem\u2019s Cotton Club.\n One of Thornton\u2019s earliest and most popular recorded tracks was \u0026ldquo;Hound Dog,\u0026rdquo; initially released by Peacock in 1953. Thornton\u2019s version of \u0026ldquo;Hound Dog\u0026rdquo; topped the R\u0026amp;B charts for seven weeks and sold over two million copies nationwide. Though the song brought acclaim to Thornton, it only yielded her about $500. The song became even more popular as Elvis Presleys first hit record in 1956.\n As the popularity of Thornton\u2019s traditional blues style waned in favor of the newer rock sound, she moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s and performed for several years without a label or promoter until the resurgent interest in traditional blues of the early 1960s again brought attention to her work. 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Dubois would eventually emerge as a founder of the NAACP, a leading human rights activists and the most important African American intellectual of the 20th Century. However those developments lay in the future when the 32-year-old DuBois gave the closing address at the first Pan African Convention.\u00A0 He used the occasion to utter one of his most quoted statements, The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line... 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Washington is a Reno, Nevada businessman and pastor who is best known as a former Republican member of the Nevada State Senate.\nWashington was born on July 25, 1956, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He moved to Nevada where he attended the University of Nevada, Reno, and there earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration. Washington worked as an electrician, sold advertising, and coached Pop Warner Football in nearby Sparks, Nevada.\u00A0 He was also active with the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association (YMCA) Youth Basketball League in Reno-Sparks before becoming involved with politics. It was after a speech to the Washoe County Republican Convention in 1994 that he was encouraged to run for public office.\nWashington was elected to the Washoe 2 District Seat in the Nevada State Senate in 1994. At that time, the Washoe 1 District Seat in the Nevada Senate was held by Bernice Mathews, a black Democrat. Four years later he won reelection to the same district seat of the Nevada State Senate over Democrat Jim Spoo. In November of 2002 he defeated Democrat Joe Carter to retain his position in the Senate. Washington would again successfully defend his Washoe 2 District Seat by trouncing Democrat John Emerson in 2006. Washington\u2019s tenure as a member of the Nevada State Senate ended in 2010 due to state term limits.\nDuring his time in the Nevada State Senate Washington was chair of the Education Committee. He also served on the Human Resource and Judiciary Committees.\u00A0 He was vice chair on the latter committee. Washington also served as a member of the Transportation Committee. 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They then took him to the banks of the Tallahatchie River, where they killed him with a single gunshot to the head. 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When authorities thought they were under sniper attack, they returned fire. \n Detroit Police, State Police, and National Guard members rush into the motel annex to locate the sniper.\u00A0 According to later testimony, Detroit police officers most likely shot and killed Cooper who ran downstairs with his pistol when they entered the building.\u00A0 Detroit police later would claim that they found Cooper already dead in a first-floor room when they entered the building.\u00A0 No one was ever charged with the death of Carl Cooper, the youngest victim, who was 17. \n Clark, Forsythe, Hysell and Molloy, and other guests including 19-year-old Aubrey Pollard, a 26-year-old Vietnam veteran Robert Greene, 18-year-old Larry Reed, lead singer for the Rhythm and Blues group the Dramatics, and band road manager, 18-year-old Fred Temple, were rounded up by Detroit police officers and faced against a downstairs hall wall.\u00A0 Hysell and Molloy were pulled out of the lineup and stripped naked.\u00A0 At some point Melvin Dismukes, a black security guard for a nearby store, entered the annex while the police held the guests against the wall. \n The next youth to be killed, Pollard, was shot and killed by officer Ronald August after he took him into Annex Room A-3.\u00A0 August later admitted to the killing but claimed it was in self-defense. 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