Lee, Canada (Personal Name)

Salute to Canada Lee [SR] 197-? (subj.) container (Canada Lee) narration (actor)

Internet Movie Database, July 3, 2003 (birth name: Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata; b. 3 March 1907 in New York; d. 9 May 1952; father of actor Carl Lee)

Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2014 (Canada Lee (March 3, 1907, New York, N.Y. - May 9, 1952, New York, N.Y.) was an actor who pioneered roles for African Americans; civil rights activist in the 1930s and 1940s; became an actor after careers as a jockey, boxer, and musician) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Lee

African American National Biography, accessed February 26, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Lee, Canada; Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata; boxer, stage/ screen actor; born 3 March 1907 in New York, New York, United States; turned to boxing; won metropolitan, intercity, state, and national lightweight junior championships; turned professional (1925); fought some two hundred professional bouts, losing only twenty-five; leaded his own big band as violinist and singer (he also played piano); played the role of Nathan in Wilson's “Brother Mose”; returned to New York as Banquo in Orson Welles's all-black “Macbeth” (1935); worked extensively in radio (early 1940s); played the role of Bigger Thomas in the stage adaptation of Richard Wright's “Native Son” (1941); overnight he was acclaimed one of the nation's greatest actors; became the first African American to produce a straight play on Broadway when he starred in Maxine Wood's “On Whitman Avenue” (1946); costarred opposite John Garfield as the end-of-the-line champ Ben Chaplin in “Body and Soul”, considered the greatest of the classic boxing films (1947); played a custom-written role as a Harlem policeman in Louis de Rochemont's controversial “Lost Boundaries” (1949); died 9 May 1952 in England)