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25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933.

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Here is a image of William Thomas, Jr. outside of his role as Buckwheat. Because of the time he grew up we never got a chance to see him in any other role other than Buckwheat. Thomas was the only Our Gang cast member to appear in all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts, and was also the only holdover from the Hal Roach era to remain in the series until its end in 1944.

After Our Gang was discontinued, Thomas enlisted in the US Army in 1954, and was released from active military service in 1956 decorated with a National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal. At the age of 49, Thomas died of a heart attack in his Los Angeles apartment in 1980, 46 years to the day after his mother brought him to audition at the Hal Roach Studios. He is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.

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They were at Douglass High School getting ready to head to Washington D.C. for the March on Washington in 1963.

After a lot of common black people begin to understand their "forever civil rights" due to enslavement from 1920s, There were gatherings all of the nation to demand those forever civil rights for black people be honored.

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