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Tillman was born on April 10, 1926, in West Palm Beach, Florida, to a large African American family. His parents, Will and Laura Tillman, were active members of the local Baptist church, and he and his eight siblings were made to study the Bible intensely. [1] Tillman attended local public schools, which were then segregated by race.
The Pat Tillman Foundation is an organization that provides a support system to U.S. military families and veterans. [5] Furthermore, their mission is to aid Tillman Scholars with academic scholarships and crucial life skills, such as leadership development, all while having an end goal of positively impacting the people and places that surround them. [3]
Patrick Daniel Tillman Jr. (November 6, 1976 – April 22, 2004) was an American professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL) who left his sports career and enlisted in the United States Army Special Operations in May 2002 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
Of her three children, only one, Mary Jane, survived to adulthood, but died at age 49, leaving Holderman to raise two granddaughters. Chauncey Holderman passed away in 1928 at age 57. Marie was 83 when she died in 1968, two years after selling her newspaper. [2]
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old youth murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after being accused of offending a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
The Marvelettes were an American girl group formed in Inkster, Michigan in 1960, consisting of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson, Georgeanna Tillman, Juanita Cowart (now Cowart Motley), and Georgia Dobbins, who was replaced by Wanda Young prior to the group signing their first record deal.
Tillman was born and raised in the Detroit suburb of Inkster, Michigan. [1] Tillman had three sisters, Sharon, Anna Marie, and Thea, and her mother was Annabelle Tillman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1960, Tillman was recruited into a girl group with her former Inkster High School glee club members Gladys Horton , Katherine Anderson and Juanita Cowart. [ 3 ]
Waters was born Lorna Maxine Waters on July 14, 1945, in Texas to Lorena Waters. She was raised in Los Angeles by her mother with her 3 siblings. [3]Waters and her siblings formed the Waters in the mid-1970s and they recorded for labels including for Blue Note, Warner Brothers, Arista, and Waterwheel.