Help Connect US Black Heritage Project Notables for May 2021!

Question

All of these U.S. Black Heritage Project Notables, born in the month of May, need to be connected to the Global Family Tree.  Can you help by adding profiles of family members until a connection to the Global Tree is made?

The ten notables selected for this month, in order of their birthdays, are:

3 May: Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson

7 May: Pioneering nurse Mary Eliza Mahoney

8 May: Jazz musician Mary Lou Williams

12 May: Judge Nathaniel R. Jones is now connected!

16 May: Politician John Conyers

19 May: Playwright and author Lorraine Hansberry

19 May: Civil rights activist Malcolm X is now connected!

23 May: Actor and musician Scatman Crothers

26 May: Jazz musician Miles Davis

31 May: Government official Patricia Roberts Harris

Comments

I just connected Judge Nathaniel Jones (on his birthday) via his first wife, Jean E. Graham (Graham-24308, she is already connected to WT).  Happy birth Judge Jones!

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I see there is a Du Bois connection on that line!  Thank you Phillip! :)

Answer 1

I will take on Mary Eliza Mahoney as I just found her parents and siblings

Comments

Excellent work so far Gina!

Answer 2

I will work on Patricia Roberts Harris.  I found quite a bit on her husband's family.

Comments

Great job adding family Karen, I hope you find a connection!

Answer 3

I've started a G2G post for anyone who wants to collaborate on connecting Malcolm X: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1233694/help-connect-human-civil-rights-activist-malcolm-global-tree

Comments

Thanks Erin!

Answer 4

I will help contribute profiles for May, today I created a profile for Notable, Roswell Newcomb Pinckney:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pinckney-765

Comments

Thanks for creating profiles, Sandie!  Here's the link for our May Connecting Challenge, if you'd like to sign up and participate there!: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1229235/join-us-black-heritages-connecting-challenge-may-2021

Answer 5

I've been dabbling with Lorraine Hansberry, but if anyone wants to jump in, please do! There are some cool people in need of great biographies in her tree.

Comments

Thank you Kate!

Answer 6

Malcolm X is connected, his brother Philbert's wife was already in WikiTree and connected to the tree. Should show up tomorrow!

Comments

Fantastic! :D

Answer 7

I will start working on Judge Nathaniel R. Jones!

Comments

Thanks Phillip!

Answer 8

I will start on Sugar Ray Robinson.

Comments

Great!

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I've added the family of his second wife Edna Mae Holly, and her grandfather and great-grandfather should be part of the US Black Heritage Project. I added the African-American Notables sticker to her, her grandfather and great-grandfather. The latter was the first Black Episcopal Bishop of Haiti, and her grandfather was a prominent physician.

Answer 9

I've started a G2G post for anyone who wants to collaborate on connecting Miles Davis: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1237573/help-connect-jazz-great-miles-davis-actress-cicely-tyson-tree

Answer 10

Miles Davis is connected now, along with about 350 other profiles a group of us created in the search for that connection!

Comments

Congratulations!!