People from Greenwood, Mississippi - Alphonso Ford, Bernie Machen, Betty Everett, Bill Cody (American Football), Byron de La Beckwith, C. C. Brown, Car (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Alphonso Ford, Bernie Machen, Betty Everett, Bill Cody (American football), Byron De La Beckwith, C. C. Brown, Carrie Nye, Charlie Weaver, Cleo Lemon, Donna Tartt, Earnest Gray, Eddie Burks (blues musician), Fenton Robinson, Furry Lewis, Hubert Sumlin, Jim Gallagher, Jr., Jonathan Van Every, Kent Hull, Leroy Jones (American football), Morgan Freeman, Mulgrew Miller, Nick Weatherspoon, Paul Maholm, Rebecca Allison, Riley Smith (American football), Roby Duke, Roy Yeager, Samuel Reeves Keesler, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, W. Allen Pepper, Jr., Webb Franklin. Excerpt: Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, film director, and narrator. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby. He has also won a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Freeman has appeared in many other box office hits, including Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, The Sum of All Fears, Bruce Almighty, the Dark Knight trilogy, and March of the Penguins. Morgan Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Mayme Edna (nee Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber who died April 27, 1961, from cirrhosis. He has three older siblings. Freeman was sent as an infant to his paternal grandmother in Charleston, Mississippi. His family moved frequently during his childhood, living in Greenwood, Mississippi; Gary, Indiana; and finally Chicago, Illinois. According to a DNA analysis, some of his ancestors were from Niger. Freeman made his acting debut at age nine, playing the lead role in a school play. He then attended Broad Street High School, a building which serves today as Threadgill Elementary School, in Greenwood, Mississippi. At age 12, he won a statewide drama competition, and while still at Broad Street High School, he performed in a radio show based in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1955, he graduated from Broad Street, but turned down a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University, opting instead to serve as a radar technician in the United States Air Force. Freeman subsequently moved to Los Angeles, California, where he took acting lessons at the Pasadena Playhouse and dancing lessons in San Francisco in the early 1960s and worked as a transcript clerk at Los Angeles Community College. During this period, he also lived in New York City, working as a dancer at the 1964 World's Fair, and in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Opera Ring musical theater group.