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Lee, Canada 1907–1952 | Encyclopedia.com
Born Leonard Lionel Cornelius Canegata, May 3, 1907, in New York, NY; died of a heart attack, May 9, 1952, in New York, NY; son of James Cornelius and Lydia (Whaley) Canegata; married Juanita Waller, 1925 (divorced); children: Carl Vincent. Politics : Democrat.
Videos
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Mickey Lee cause of death: What we know about 'Big Brother' star - Yahoo News Canada
3 weeks ago - Lee, who appeared on Season 27 of the reality competition show, had recently been in the ICU after flu complications led to a series of cardiac arrests, according to a GoFundMe organized for her.
Macmillan Publishers
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Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee
October 6, 2025 - Labeled a Communist by the FBI and HUAC as early as 1943, Lee was pilloried during the notorious Judith Coplon spy trial in 1949 and condemned in Ed Sullivan's column. He died penniless at forty-five in 1952, a heartbroken casualty of a dangerous era. After nearly a decade of research, Mona Z. Smith revives the legacy of a pioneering African American actor and a tragic victim of the Hollywood blacklist in Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee.
Author Mona Smith
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Mickey Lee, Big Brother Season 27 Star, Dead at 35
Mickey Lee, who appeared on Big Brother's 27th season this year, died after being hospitalized for cardiac arrest, her family confirmed Dec. 26.
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Canada Lee (1907-1952) | BlackPast.org
June 29, 2008 - Canada Lee (the adopted name of Lionel Cornelius Canegata) was a noted 20th Century jockey, boxer, and actor. Born on May 3, 1907 in New York City’s San Juan Hill district, he attended Public School 5 in Harlem. Canegata began his musical education at the age of seven, studying violin with ...
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Carl Lee (actor) - Wikipedia
October 28, 2025 - Their relationship lasted almost 30 years until Lee's death. Lee suffered a heroin addiction that caused him to contract AIDS from a dirty hypodermic needle. He died from a heroin overdose in 1986. In a 2000 interview, filmmaker James Toback stated "In the sort of hip world of New York, Carl ...
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Columbia Magazine
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Canada Lee’s Curtain Call | Columbia Magazine
If Canada Lee had been born 10 years later, he might still be a household name. He was the Sugar Ray Robinson of his day and “the best Negro actor of his time,” according to The Ring magazine and the New York Times, respectively. But cruel circumstances, and even crueler people, colluded ...
New York Public Library Archives
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Canada Lee papers, [microform], 1912-1999 [bulk 1941-1952]
The American West Indian Ladies ... fragmentary in content making it difficult to determine the actual transition of officers and other organizational activities, the exception being sick and death claim requests and payments....
Travalanche
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Canada Lee: The Boxer Who Played Banquo – (Travalanche)
November 17, 2024 - I first learned about Canada Lee (1907-52) from Denise Oswald, my editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. One of the books ahead of mine in the FSG pipeline was Mona Z. Smith's Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee, which Denise was also editing. This was the first biography ever about this major African American…