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The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and After Waller left the group in , the remaining trio left Birmingham to . From early to mid , the Temptations went from unknown hopefuls to . Before Kendricks officially left the Temptations, he and Paul Williams.
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Washington, the most famous black man in America. His Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, had a national reputation. Washington visited Granny many times, and Arthur heard the great orator speak. Arthur became a huge fan of Washington, and read his book, Up From Slavery , again and again throughout his life. Permission granted, he found it difficult to find any real jobs, so he picked up any odd jobs that paid, from washing windows and cleaning floors to serving as a hotel bellhop. In each job, he worked harder and longer than anyone else, often to the displeasure of his fellow workers.
In , at the age of eighteen, A. Years later, A. The next year, A. So he had to wait three years. One wealthy customer was so impressed by A. Fortunately, A. The mother took the son off to Detroit to raise him. Her name is lost in the dust of history. The lessons of A.
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Washington, and Granny Tuggle inspired him to save and invest. His frugality became legendary. By , A. He spent three years at Fort Riley, Kansas, where like other blacks he did kitchen and latrine duty. For extra money, he polished the boots of the white officers. As World War I began, A.
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Nevertheless, they found themselves in the midst of battlefields. Hunkered down in a farmhouse, A. When the international victory parade was held in Paris, the US government ensured that no black soldiers were allowed to participate. Lynchings continued in the south, and by the Ku Klux Klan had over four million members. A US Senate bill to make lynching a federal crime failed to pass.
Race riots occurred across the nation. After serving out his seven-year commitment to the army, A. Creola was one of the few women A. Never willing to spend money on dating and partying, he had led a somewhat isolated life apart from his coworkers and fellow soldiers. Perhaps more inspiring were the conversations with Dad Smith, who urged him to never give up on his dreams, hard as it might be to achieve them.
Back in Birmingham, A.
Desperate to support himself and his mother, A. These mines did not have the modern tools used in northern mines, and the workers had to haul iron out of the mines on their backs.
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One appeal of the mining company was that they provided nice houses in the mining town of Westfield, rented from the company. Despite the attractive pay, the mining company took the rent out of each paycheck, as well as everything bought at the company store at inflated prices. Not much was left over. When his fellow workers admired the great box lunches Rosie had prepared for A. Rosie loved to cook, and was great at it.
He started loaning money to the other miners, charging 25 percent interest for the two weeks until the next payday. Lending became his most profitable business, and soon A. Still, he hated the mines and wanted out. One of the many things that bothered A. The miners readily parted with their funds out of sympathy, and the knowledge that they might be next.
But mixed in with the honest needs of the bereaved were hustlers. Seeing a need—and thinking of it only as a temporary stepping stone to his future—A. Washington Burial Society, named after his hero. He went door-to-door, collecting 25 cents per week for the head of the household and 10 cents for any other family members, insuring a proper burial.
Crisis hit when one of his first customers died after he had collected only a few dollars. In , A. However, A. Then, two more crises occurred: Rosie Gaston died, and slow business forced the mine to lay off A. But when A. The new bosses did not want to continue the deal, imperiling the economics of the Burial Society. At this time, A.
The stock market crash of and the succeeding Great Depression hit the south and Birmingham hard, especially poor blacks. Unemployment in Birmingham was among the highest in the nation, and over half the homeowners in the city stopped paying their mortgages. Others lost their savings in bank failures. But people kept dying and the insurance and funeral businesses survived.
Credit Bernie Ilson, Inc. When Dennis Edwards was tapped to fill the flashy suit of a well-known lead singer in one of the hottest male soul groups in music history, he hesitated. That was In the constellation of super groups of that era, none shone more brightly than the Temptations. With the rugged good looks to match his voice, Edwards became steeped in the majesty, legend and drama that was the storied musical franchise called the Temptations. After a career that spanned more than five decades, Edwards, who had made his home in the St.
Several media outlets reported that he was in Chicago at the time of his death.
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As he was preparing to leave to accept the award, he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he was humbled. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor. The family moved to Detroit when Edwards was in grade school. As a teenager, he attended the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Before the mighty Temptations, there were the Mighty Clouds of Joy.
He sang with the gospel group and liberally borrowed the stylings of its lead singer, Joe Ligon. Like Ligon, his strong baritone, a tangle of steel wool and cashmere, was often punctuated with barely controlled wails of joy or anguish. It was the perfect voice for a group named Dennis Edwards and the Fireballs, which he formed in , over the objections of his very religious mother.
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His nascent recording career was quickly interrupted by Army service. While stationed in Dachau, Germany, where one of the largest Nazi concentration camps had been located, a friend sent him the single, "My Girl. But, as statues go, Vulcan has got plenty of company in the Magic City. For the next couple of weeks, join Bham Now as we guide you, our readers, on a tour of Birmingham statues and monuments.