Amazing African Americans
BY : NEVAEH SCOTT
Quincy Jones
- He mastered the trumpet at a young age
- He won 27 Grammy's in total
- He helped produce Michael Jackson's ''Thriller
- He worked on one of the most top-selling recordings of the modern music era
- He was the first American to be nominated for two academy awards in one year
George ''Little Chocolate'' Dixon
- He was the first black-world boxing champion in any weight class
- He created shadow boxing ( a type of training )
- He won the feather weight tittle
- He won 73 out of the 163 fights that he fought
- He moved to Boston and had a family