Fifteen years after a Congressional Joint Resolution in 1996 to establish a memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor King, the four-acre site on the Tidal Basin between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials opened to the public for the first time.
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California. Ethnicity: African-American. Redd Foxx was an American comedian and actor. He was the son of Mary Alicia/Alma (Hughes) Carson and Fred/Freddie Sanford. His parents were both African-American. It has been said that his mother was of half Seminole Native American ancestry.
Dorothea Dix Photo: Library of Congress Digital ID cph 3a12244 Miss Dorothea Dix (1802 â 1887): Teacher, Nurse, Social Reformer and Advocate for the Mentally Ill. by Dr. Graham Warder, Keene State College. Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in the frontier town of Hampden, Maine. Her father was poor, a drifter, and probably an alcoholic.