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Maurice King (musician)
Maurice King may refer to: * Maurice King (basketball) (1935–2007), American basketball player * Maurice King (lawyer) (1936–2021), Barbadian lawyer * Maurice King (producer), co-founder of King Brothers Productions * Maurice King (doctor), board member of the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight * Maurice King (musician) (''né'' Clarence Maurice King, Sr.; 1911–1992), mid-20th-century American jazz musician, member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. During the 1940s the band featured some of the best female musicians of the day. They played swing and jazz on a national circuit that incl ... and later Maurice King's Wolverines * Maurice King (weightlifter), mid-20th century Saint Vincentian weightlifter {{hndis, name=King, Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice King (basketball)
Maurice E. King (December 1, 1934 – September 17, 2007) was an American professional basketball player who played for the NBA Champion Boston Celtics in the 1959-1960 season. Early life King was born in Kansas City, Missouri and graduated from R. T. Coles High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1953. King led the R. T. Coles Jeeps to a Missouri state high school basketball championship in 1952 and a second-place finish in 1953. King’s stellar play earned him a basketball scholarship from the University of Kansas that commenced with the 1953-54 school year. King was the second black basketball player to play at Kansas (and first black starter), following LaVannes Squires from Wichita East High School in Wichita, Kansas and preceding Wilt Chamberlain, who was the third. College career After redshirting his first season at Kansas due to the freshmen eligibility rules in effect at the time, King played a reserve role in his sophomore season for the Kansas Jayhawks during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice King (lawyer)
Sir Maurice Athelstan King, KA, QC (1 January 1936 – 21 September 2021) was a Barbadian lawyer. Career In the late 1970s, King served as Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations, as well as a legal counsel for the Democratic Labour Party. He served as Attorney-General of Barbados from 1986 to 1989. He then went on to head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Business from 1989 to 1993. Personal life King did his secondary education at Harrison College. He graduated from University of Manchester in 1960 and was called to the bar that year. He was knighted in 2009. He has a brother, Edmund King, also a lawyer. He died on 21 September 2021, at the age of 85. Knight of Saint Andrew - 2009 The University of Manchester 1957 – 1960 Degree Name: LLB Field Of Study: Law Further reading * https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/22/former-ag-sir-maurice-king-dies/ * https://www.nationnews.com/2021/09/23/acting-pm-pays-tribute-sir-mauri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice King (producer)
King Brothers Productions was an American film production company, active from 1941 to the late 1960s. It was founded by the Kozinsky brothers, Frank (April 1, 1913 – February 12, 1989), Maurice (Maury; September 13, 1914 – September 2, 1977), and Herman (July 4, 1916 – July 20, 1992), who later changed their surname to "King". They had notable collaborations with such filmmakers as Philip Yordan and William Castle and are particularly remembered today for employing a number of blacklisted writers during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s. Some of their films include ''Dillinger'' (1945), ''Suspense'' (1946), ''Gun Crazy'' (1949), ''Carnival Story'' (1954), '' The Brave One'' (1956—which earned writer Dalton Trumbo a Best Screenplay Academy Award), '' Gorgo'' (1961), ''Captain Sindbad'' (1963), and ''Heaven With a Gun'' (1968). Career Joseph Kozinsky (died 1950) was a New York fruit merchant who fathered five children, brothers Frank, Maurice and Herman, and two s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice King (doctor)
Maurice King may refer to: * Maurice King (basketball) (1935–2007), American basketball player * Maurice King (lawyer) (1936–2021), Barbadian lawyer * Maurice King (producer), co-founder of King Brothers Productions * Maurice King (doctor), board member of the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight * Maurice King (musician) (''né'' Clarence Maurice King, Sr.; 1911–1992), mid-20th-century American jazz musician, member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. During the 1940s the band featured some of the best female musicians of the day. They played swing and jazz on a national circuit that incl ... and later Maurice King's Wolverines * Maurice King (weightlifter), mid-20th century Saint Vincentian weightlifter {{hndis, name=King, Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benevolent Organisation For Development, Health And Insight
The Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight is a Non-Governmental Organisation that undertakes sustainable interventions to promote human rights, education, and health amongst disadvantaged people in low-income countries. Their activities are principally in India and Bangladesh. Their founding patron is the Dalai Lama and they had former projects in several countries, including in Tibet, most notably the revolving sheep bank.http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/tibetanNomads/sheepbank.htm BODHI's past projects include adult literacy programs, health clinics, and education, all illustrations of engaged Buddhism. More recently, BODHI has primarily supported works with minority populations in India and Bangladesh, especially of Chakmas and dalits. They have partnerships with local organizations and their volunteers. BODHI, founded in 1989, is one of the first Buddhist-influenced development organisations founded and based in the West. It has two branches, in the U.S. a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice King (musician)
Maurice King may refer to: * Maurice King (basketball) (1935–2007), American basketball player * Maurice King (lawyer) (1936–2021), Barbadian lawyer * Maurice King (producer), co-founder of King Brothers Productions * Maurice King (doctor), board member of the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight * Maurice King (musician) (''né'' Clarence Maurice King, Sr.; 1911–1992), mid-20th-century American jazz musician, member of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. During the 1940s the band featured some of the best female musicians of the day. They played swing and jazz on a national circuit that incl ... and later Maurice King's Wolverines * Maurice King (weightlifter), mid-20th century Saint Vincentian weightlifter {{hndis, name=King, Maurice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Sweethearts Of Rhythm
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the first integrated all-women's band in the United States. During the 1940s the band featured some of the best female musicians of the day. They played swing and jazz on a national circuit that included the Apollo Theater in New York City, the Regal Theater in Chicago, and the Howard Theater in Washington, D.C. After a performance in Chicago in 1943, the ''Chicago Defender'' announced the band was "one of the hottest stage shows that ever raised the roof of the theater!" They have been labeled "the most prominent and probably best female aggregation of the Big Band era". During feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s in America, the International Sweethearts of Rhythm became popular with feminist writers and musicologists who made it their goal to change the discourse on the history of jazz to include both men and women musicians. Flutist Antoinette Handy was one scholar who documented the story of these female musicians of color. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |