The following is from Bob Kirk, November 2002:
Gregory D. Ridley, Jr., a native of Smyrna, Tennessee, was born in 1925. In 1936, his family moved to Nashville, where he was educated in the city's public schools. After service in the United States Navy during World War II, he enrolled at Fisk University, where he studied under the renowned Aaron Douglas, who remained a close friend and mentor until his death in 1979.
Ridley earned an undergraduate degree in art educatio (showing 500 of 3679 characters). |
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