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Name:    Foxx, Redd
Category:  African-American Experience
Born/Started:    1922
Died/Ended:    1991
Description:    Redd Foxx, a native St. Louisan, has scores of records, theater, and television appearances to his credit. He is best remembered as the character Fred Sanford in the "Sanford and Son" television series and is internationally renowned as a comedian. In 1977, he published The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor. Redd Foxx Lane in St. Louis is named in his honor.



Reference
Discovering African-American St. Louis
 Selected Neighbors and Neighborhoods of North St. Louis

 

 

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