Article: 116TH BIRTHDAY.

Article: 137 YEARS LATER, SLAVERY STILL TOUCHES US
Dayton Daily News;  October 5, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... to Chester and Timothy Huddle, California brothers in their 80s, whose father was sold into slavery when he was 8, and EddLee Bankhead of Mississippi, the 119-year-old son of a slave. Lawsuits in their names have been filed for damages from the personal ...

Article: Aging Sons of Slaves Join Reparations Battle; Financial ...
The Washington Post;  September 30, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... in 1865. The Hurdles' lawsuit, filed earlier this month, is the first of its kind. In Mississippi, 119-year-old EddLee Bankhead of Corinth, near Memphis, who says his parents were slaves, filed a similar action in federal court. Attorneys who helped ...

Article: NATION IN BRIEF
The Washington Post;  December 3, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 1,853, will go up this fiscal year to $2,024. It will go up next fiscal year to $2,196. CORINTH, Miss. -- EddLee Bankhead, 119, the son of slaves who filed a federal lawsuit seeking reparations, died of natural causes last week at the Whitfield ...

Article: Slavery's stain still with us
Daily Breeze;  October 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Chester and Timothy Huddle, California brothers in their 80s, whose father wassold into slavery when he was eight, and EddLee Bankhead ofMississippi, the 119-year-old son of a slave. Lawsuits in their names have been filed for damages from the personal ...

Article: At 116, man has seen it all
Charleston Daily Mail;  March 12, 1999 ;     325 words ...LAWRENCE PARK, Pa. - Eddlee Bankhead is just one year shy of living in three centuries, so he probably knows what he's talking about when he says he's seen it ...

Article: Lives
The New Crisis;  March 1, 2003 ;     662 words ...EddLee Bankhead, 119, a son of slaves who in September filed a federal lawsuit for reparations, died Nov. 26 in Corinth, Miss., of natural ...

Article: Birthday Memoriams.(Features)
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  November 2, 2009 ;     668 words ... ... MARJORIE, N o v e m b e r 2. (H a p p y birthday Marj. Your special day I cannot share ... CAIN -MARK, November 1st. (Happy birthday son, s t i l l loved and missed always ... H N. N o v e m b e r 2. (H a p p y birthday John. Will always m i s s y o u v e ...