Help Connect US Black Heritage Project Notables for May 2022!

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:

8 May: Singer-songwriter Robert Leroy Johnson

8 May: Jazz Musician and composer Mary Lou (Scruggs) Williams

10 May: Physician Dr. Yvette Francis-McBarrette

11 May: Sociologist Dr. George Haynes

11 May: President of Morehouse College Dr. Hugh Gloster

18 May: Medal of Honor recipient 1LT John Robert Fox, Jr

19 May: Playwright and Author Lorraine Hansberry CONNECTED!

20 May: Liberia President Garretson Gibson

28 May: Blues violinist John Henry "Papa John" Creach

31 May: Tuskegee Airman Capt Lawrence Dickson

For more unconnected USBH profiles, and up-to-date links to this post and the current USBH Connection Challenge, check out the US Black Heritage Connectors Page.

Comments

I’d like to suggest Justin Holland for May 19. Born in 1819 in Norfolk County Virginia (what is now Chesapeake Virginia). Mr Holland was a well known and respected music arranger and teacher for guitar and wrote a comprehensive manual on learning the guitar, as well as an internationally known Prince Hall Mason leader.

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Thanks J'net!  On quick glance I don't see a profile yet for Mr. Holland so will create one later today.

Answer 1

Argh, I'm still stumped on Lorraine Hansberry.

Answer 2

Is there a June Notables?

Answer 3

Hard to say since when, but Lorraine Hansberry is now connected (first noticed a couple of weeks ago).

Comments

Thanks Isabelle, I'll edit the post to mark her as connected.

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It looks like this was one more notable pulled into the connection when I made those new connections for Archie Griffin. However, there is a dubious connection at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Perrill-23 I see no source that the white Alexander is Elizabeth's father.