| LC control no. | no 97069391 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bibb, Leon, 1922-2015 |
| Variant(s) | Bibb, Charles Leon, 1922-2015 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Charles, Lee, 1922-2015 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1922-02-07 |
| Death date | 2015-10-23 |
| Place of birth | Louisville (Ky.) |
| Place of death | Vancouver (B.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group, 477th Louisville Municipal College Step Ahead (Program) |
| Profession or occupation | Folk singers Actors Civil rights workers |
| Found in | All star hootenanny [SR] 1964?: label (Leon Bibb) Southern, E. Bio. dict. of Afro-Amer. and African musicians (Bibb, Charles Leon; b. ca. 1924, Louisville, Ky.; folksinger) African American National Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bibb, Leon; Charles Leon Arthello Bibb; actor, singer; born 07 February 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; attended Louisville Municipal College and was a soloist with the college glee club; joined the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots in the U.S. military who served with great distinction in World War I; after the war took a variety of jobs to support himself in New York City while searching for a way into music; was chosen to appear in the original cast of Annie Get Your Gun, which starred Ethel Merman and opened on Broadway in 1946; also took roles in Off-Broadway projects; the spirituals and prison songs Bibb recorded came into sharper focus as he lent his voice and presence to civil rights actions during the 1960s; moved to Vancouver (1971); in addition to recording and performing, he founded Step Ahead, a program designed to start students and teachers talking about racism and bullying) New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 27, 2015 (in obituary published Oct. 26: Leon Bibb; b. Charles Leon Aurthello Bibb, Feb. 7, 1922, Louisville; d. Friday [Oct. 23, 2015], Vancouver, B.C., aged 93; actor turned folk singer whose powerful, elegant baritone voice made him a prominent figure in the folk-music revival and a stirring performer at the landmark civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, including the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965; under the name Lee Charles, recorded an album with the folk quartet the Skifflers and a solo album of spirituals for Riverside Records, Swing low, sweet chariot, before recording under his own name for Vanguard and other labels) |
| Not found in | Stambler, I. Enc. of folk, country & western music, 2nd ed.; Gaylord Library on WWW; Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed.; New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.; Baker, 8th ed. |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 93013088 |
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