Morgan Freeman
Born 1930s.
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Biography
Morgan Freeman is Notable.
Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, and narrator.
Morgan was born in 1937. He is the son of Morgan Freeman and Mayme Revere.
In 2008, the TV series African American Lives 2 revealed that some of Freeman's great-great-grandparents were slaves who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi. Freeman also discovered that his Caucasian maternal great-great-grandfather had lived with, and was buried beside, Freeman's African-American great-great-grandmother (the two could not legally marry at the time, in the segregated South). A DNA test on the series stated that he is descended from the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger.[1]
Sources
- Gates, H.L., wr. "A Way Out of No Way." African American Lives 2 Episode 3. PBS. 6 Feb 2008
- "Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-PVY9-3?cc=1856425&wc=M6NZ-NP6%3A167441301%2C167467101 : 18 September 2015), Leflore > image 183 of 480; Government Records, Jackson.
- "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWTJ-YPK : accessed 7 July 2017), Morgan Freeman in household of Lee Jackson, Ward 2, Chicago, Chicago City, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 103-71, sheet 10A, line 33, family 179, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 922.
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