A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: heir; heritor; inheritor. Hypernyms (heir is a kind of...): receiver; recipient (a person who gets something)
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 17, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. Her parents were William and Temperance (Tempie); they divorced shortly after she was born. Ella and her mother moved to Yonkers, New York, where they eventually moved in with her mother s boyfriend, Joseph Da Silva.
Born on December 13, 1903 in Norfolk, Va., Ella Jo Baker grew up listening to stories of slave rebellions from her grandmother. A former slave, her grandmother told Baker that she'd been punished for not marrying a man that her owner had chosen. These stories laid the foundation for social justice and activism that would remain throughout Baker's life. Baker began her career in social activism while a student at Shaw University.