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YEAR IN REVIEW 2007
DEATHS
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| William Turnbull, who founded the Boys Choir of Harlem in a church basement and led the organization to international acclaim that included performances in the White House and the Vatican, died in March. He was 62. (AP photo/Diane Bondareff) |
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| Sports writer Larry Whiteside passed away in June at the age of 69. Whiteside was honored on Dec. 5 with the Hall of Fame’s J.G. Taylor Spink Award for his contributions to baseball writing and will be recognized during the Hall induction ceremonies that will take place in Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 27. (Photo courtesy of Boston Globe) |
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| Judge Herbert E. Tucker Jr. passed away in March at the age of 91. During his lifetime, he was president of the Boston branch of the NAACP and served as assistant attorney general of the state of Massachusetts. (Photo courtesy of the Tucker family) |
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| Frank M. Snowden Jr., a Howard University classicist for almost 50 years whose research into blacks in ancient Greece and Rome opened a new field of study, died at the age of 95, in Washington, D.C, in February. His love for antiquity began at the Boston Latin School and continued at Harvard University. (Photo courtesy of the Snowden family) |
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| Former Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was shot to death in Oakland, Calif., in August, in what police believe was a deliberate hit. He was 57. A 19-year-old associate of Your Black Muslim Bakery confessed to shooting Bailey, then later recanted much of what he told police, saying he was told by bakery leaders to take the fall. (AP photo/Oakland Tribune) |
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This 1954 photo shows lawyers for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. From left: Louis L. Redding, Robert L. Carter, Oliver W. Hill, Thurgood Marshall and Spottswood W. Robinson III. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died in August at the age of 100. In 1954, Hill was involved in a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, which set the foundation for integrated education. (AP photo/Courtesy of the NAACP)
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(left) Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite passed away in September at the age of 97. One of Crite’s most famous works, “Tire Jumping in Front of My Window” (above), was recently purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts from noted jazz impresario and art collector George Wein. The oil painting depicts a 1936 scene of Columbus Avenue in the South End, where Crite had lived since infancy. (Image courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
(right) “Portrait of Allan Rohan Crite” (right) was painted by local artist Ralph Beach. (Photo courtesy of Ralph Beach)
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