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Blues composer William Christopher “W.C.” Handy, known as the “Father of the Blues,” was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873.

Charlotte Urban League Officials/JSCU Grads

POSTED: November 05, 2008, 1:01 am

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Dr. Patrick C. Graham and Ms Okeatta Brown of the Charlotte Urban League.

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