Vernon Baker was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., in 1919. At four, he lived with his grandparents after the death of his…
LaSalle R. Vaughn was born in Baton Rouge, La., on Nov. 5, 1923, as one of five children to Roger…
John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, N.C., in September 1926, and lived there until moving with his father and mother…