Little Richard shatter racial divisions in the music industry. Little Richard was born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. He was the third of twelve children of Leva Mae (née Stewart) and Charles "Bud" Penniman. His father was a church deacon who sold bootlegged moonshine on the side and owned a nightclub, the Tip In Inn. His mother was a member of Macon's New Hope Baptist Church. Initially, Little Richard's first name was supposed to have been "Ricardo" but an error resulted in "Richard" instead. The Penniman children were raised in a neighborhood of Macon called Pleasant Hill.
Ebenezer J. Penniman organization of the Republican Party in Michigan. He was a delegate to 1856 Republican National Convention from Michigan. Penniman resumed mercantile pursuits until the First National Bank of Plymouth was organized in November 1871, and he, at the age of 67, was named president. Penniman died in Plymouth, Wayne County, Michigan, on April 12, 1890 (age 86 years, 91 days). He is interred at Riverside Cemetery, Plymouth, Michigan. The son of Chiron and Olive Whipple Penniman, he married Maryette and they had two children, Mary and Julius A. Maryette died in 1843 and he then married Eliza Connor with whom