Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
Born: February 25, 1928
Died: December 14, 1998 (aged 70)
Bio: Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was a prominent African-American civil rights advocate, author, and federal appeals court judge.
Known for:
- Shades of freedom (1996)







