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Charles, Mary Eugenia (prime minister of Dominica)
lawyer and politician who served as prime minister of Dominica from 1980 to 1995. She was the country’s first woman lawyer and the first woman prime minister to serve in the Caribbean....
Charles of Anjou (king of Naples and Sicily)
king of Naples and Sicily (1266–85), the first of the Angevin dynasty, and creator of a great but short-lived Mediterranean empire....
Charles of Anjou (king of Naples)
king of Naples and ruler of numerous other territories, who concluded the war to regain Sicily started by his father, Charles I. By making astute alliances and treaties, he greatly enlarged his dominions....
Charles of Aragon (Spanish prince)
heir apparent to the throne of Navarre (from 1428), who intrigued for both the Navarrese and Aragonese crowns....
Charles of Blois (duke of Brittany)
rival duke of Brittany, a son of the French king Philip VI’s sister Margaret....
Charles of Bourbon (king of Spain)
king of Spain (1759–88) and king of Naples (as Charles VII, 1734–59), one of the “enlightened despots” of the 18th century, who helped lead Spain to a brief cultural and economic revival....
Charles of Durazzo (king of Naples)
king of Naples (1381–86) and king (as Charles II) of Hungary (1385–86). A leading figure of the Hungarian branch of the Angevin dynasty, he was an astute politician who won both of his thrones by triumphing over rival claimants....
Charles of France (duke of Berry, Normandy, and Guyenne)
duke of Berry, of Normandy, and of Guyenne, who fought in the coalitions against his brother King Louis XI of France....
Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (king of Romania)
first king of Romania, whose long reign (as prince, 1866–81, and as king, 1881–1914) brought notable military and economic development along Western lines but failed to solve the basic problems of an overwhelmingly rural country....
Charles of Lorraine (duke of Lower Lorraine)
duke of Lower Lorraine, head of the only surviving legitimate line of the Carolingian dynasty by 987, and an unsuccessful claimant for the French throne....
Charles of Lorraine (duke of Lorraine and Bar)
duke of Lorraine and Bar, Austrian field marshal who commanded the forces defeating the Turks before the gates of Vienna in 1683 and subsequently expelled them from most of Hungary....
Charles of Luxembourg (Holy Roman emperor)
German king and king of Bohemia (as Charles) from 1346 to 1378 and Holy Roman emperor from 1355 to 1378, one of the most learned and diplomatically skillful sovereigns of his time. He gained more through diplomacy than others did by war, and through purchases, marriages, and inheritance he enlarged his dynastic power. Under Charles’s rule Prague became the political, economic, and cultural ...
Charles of Provence (king of Provence)
third son of the Frankish emperor Lothar I. Upon his father’s death (855) he inherited the Rhone valley of Burgundy and Provence. He was the first king of Provence, but he died without issue, and Provence was seized by his elder brother, the emperor Louis II....
Charles of Valois (count of Valois)
count of Valois from 1285 and of Anjou and Maine from 1290. He was son of a king, brother of a king, uncle of three kings, and a father of a king. Though he himself never gained a crown, he sought at various times those of Aragon, France, Constantinople, and the Holy Roman Empire....
Charles of Viana (Spanish prince)
heir apparent to the throne of Navarre (from 1428), who intrigued for both the Navarrese and Aragonese crowns....
Charles Philip Arthur George, prince of Wales and earl of Chester, duke of Cornwall, duke of Rothesay, earl of Carrick and Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland (British prince)
heir apparent to the British throne, eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh....
Charles, Pierre (prime minister of Dominica)
Dominican politician (b. June 30, 1954, Grand Bay, Dominica—d. Jan. 6, 2004, Roseau, Dominica), was selected by Dominica Labour Party leaders to become prime minister of the country after the death of Roosevelt Douglas in 2000. A onetime schoolteacher, Charles was elected to the parliament in 1985 after having denounced the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada. As prime minister he implemented a s...
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site (historical site, Charleston, South Carolina, United States)
...the ruins of Fort Sumter, which was later partly rebuilt and modified. The extant Fort Moultrie dates from 1809. Fort Sumter is accessible by boat, whereas Fort Moultrie can be reached by road. Charles Pinckney National Historic Site is located a few miles to the northeast on the mainland. Established in 1988, it preserves 28 acres (11 hectares) of American statesman Charles Pinckney’s.....
Charles, Prince of Denmark (king of Norway)
first king of Norway following the restoration of that country’s full independence in 1905....
Charles, Prince of Lorraine and Bar (Austrian governor of The Netherlands)
Austrian field marshal and administrator whose exemplary governorship of the Austrian Netherlands overshadowed his questionable military talents....
Charles, prince of Wales (British prince)
heir apparent to the British throne, eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh....
Charles, R. H. (British biblical scholar)
...bce–2nd century ce) also is generally excluded; such literature existed for centuries only in oral form. The edition of the Pseudepigrapha edited by the British biblical scholar R.H. Charles in 1913, however, contains a translation of Pirqe Avot (“Sayings of the Fathers”), an ethical tractate from the Mishna (a collection of oral laws), an...
Charles, Ray (American musician)
American pianist, singer, composer, and bandleader, a leading black entertainer billed as “the Genius.” Charles was credited with the early development of soul music, a style based on a melding of gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz music....
Charles River (river, Massachusetts, United States)
river, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It is the longest river wholly within the state, meandering slightly more than 80 miles (130 km) from its source in Hopkinton, southern Middlesex county, to its mouth on Boston Harbor. The river follows a winding course (south, northeast, north, east, northwest, and east) before dividing Cambridge and Boston...
Charles River Basin (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
...near the Back Bay Fens. The completion in 1910 of a dam that kept the harbour tides out of the Charles River converted the remaining unfilled portion of the Back Bay into a body of fresh water. The Charles River basin, surrounded by parkland and patterned on the Alster River basin in Hamburg, Ger., remains one of the most handsome, distinctive, and popular features of Boston....
Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (law case)
U.S. Supreme Court decision (1837) holding that rights not specifically conferred by a charter cannot be inferred from the language of the document. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney rejected the claim of a bridge company (Charles River) that the state legislature’s subsequent grant of...
Charles Robert of Anjou (king of Hungary)
courtly, pious king of Hungary who restored his kingdom to the status of a great power and enriched and civilized it....
Charles, RuPaul Andre (American entertainer)
American entertainer who was best known for his performances as a flamboyant, blond-bewigged cross-dresser....
Charles Scribner’s Sons (American publisher)
family of American publishers whose firm, founded in 1846 and named Charles Scribner’s Sons from 1878, issued books and several periodicals....
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (research laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
...in physics and soon demonstrated his precocity as both a researcher and entrepreneur. As a graduate student he became a national expert on aeronautical and meteorological research instruments. The Instruments Laboratory (I-Lab), which he founded in 1934, became a centre for both academic and commercial research, a combination that was not unusual at the time. It was through the I-Lab that......
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (American philanthropic organization)
Mott was mayor of Flint three times between 1912 and 1918. In 1926 he created the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. His subsequent gifts of cash and stock made his foundation one of the largest in the country, with $300 million in assets by the time of his death. The foundation funded a wide range of social and educational services for Flint, among other projects....
Charles the Bad (king of Navarre)
king of Navarre from 1349, who made various short-lived attempts to expand Navarrese power in both France and Spain....
Charles the Bald (king of France)
king of France and of Navarre (as Charles I) from 1322, the last of the direct line of the Capetian dynasty; his inglorious reign was marked by his invasion of Aquitaine and by political intrigues with his sister Isabella, wife of King Edward II of England....
Charles the Bald (Holy Roman emperor)
king of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 843 to 877 and Western emperor from 875 to 877. (He is reckoned as Charles II both of the Holy Roman Empire and of France.)...
Charles the Bold (duke of Burgundy)
last of the great dukes of Burgundy (1467 to 1477)....
Charles the Bold (duke of Lorraine [1365–1431])
duke of Lorraine and an ally of the Burgundian faction in the internal strife that divided France during the Hundred Years’ War. He succeeded in uniting Lorraine with the duchy of Bar....
Charles the Fat (Holy Roman emperor)
Frankish king and emperor, whose fall in 887 marked the final disintegration of the empire of Charlemagne. (Although he controlled France briefly, he is usually not reckoned among the kings of France)....
Charles the Good (count of Flanders)
count of Flanders (1119–27), only son of St. Canute, or Canute IV of Denmark, by Adela, daughter of Robert I the Frisian, count of Flanders. After the assassination of Canute in 1086, his widow took refuge in Flanders, taking with her her son. Charles was brought up by his mother and grandfather, Robe...
Charles the Great (duke of Lorraine [1543–1608])
duke of Lorraine from 1545, whose reign is noted for its progress and prosperity....
Charles the Great (Holy Roman emperor)
king of the Franks (768–814), king of the Lombards (774–814), and emperor (800–814)....
Charles the Lame (king of Naples)
king of Naples and ruler of numerous other territories, who concluded the war to regain Sicily started by his father, Charles I. By making astute alliances and treaties, he greatly enlarged his dominions....
Charles the Mad (king of Spain)
king of Spain from 1665 to 1700 and the last monarch of the Spanish Habsburg dynasty....
Charles the Mad (king of France)
king of France who throughout his long reign (1380–1422) remained largely a figurehead, first because he was still a boy when he took the throne and later because of his periodic fits of madness....
Charles the Simple (king of France)
king of France (893–922), whose authority came to be accepted by Lorraine and who settled the Northmen in Normandy but who became the first Carolingian ruler of the western kingdom to lose his crown....
Charles the Victorious (king of France)
king of France from 1422 to 1461, who succeeded—partly with the aid of Joan of Arc—in driving the English from French soil and in solidifying the administration of the monarchy. Before ascending the throne he was known as the Dauphin and was regent for his father, Charles VI, from 1418....
Charles the Well-Beloved (king of France)
king of France who throughout his long reign (1380–1422) remained largely a figurehead, first because he was still a boy when he took the throne and later because of his periodic fits of madness....
Charles the Well-Served (king of France)
king of France from 1422 to 1461, who succeeded—partly with the aid of Joan of Arc—in driving the English from French soil and in solidifying the administration of the monarchy. Before ascending the throne he was known as the Dauphin and was regent for his father, Charles VI, from 1418....
Charles the Wise (king of France)
king of France from 1364 who led the country in a miraculous recovery from the devastation of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), reversing the disastrous Anglo-French settlement of 1360....
Charles the Young (king of France)
...Aquitaine remained a centre of dissension. For some time (until 864) Pippin II continued to have supporters there, and Charles the Bald attempted to pacify them by installing his sons—first Charles the Child (reigned 855–866) and then Louis II (the Stammerer; 867–877)—on the throne of Aquitaine. The problems in Aquitaine were closely connected to general unrest among...
Charles, the Young Pretender (British prince)
last serious Stuart claimant to the British throne and leader of the unsuccessful Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46....
Charles Theodore (elector of the Palatinate)
elector (1742–77) of the Palatinate branch of the House of Wittelsbach and thereafter (1777–99) of the united Palatinate lands after inheriting Bavaria. The latter inheritance touched off the battleless War of the Bavarian Succession....
Charles, Thomas (Welsh religious leader)
Welsh religious leader, a founder of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales and an inspirer of missionary activities....
Charles Town (West Virginia, United States)
city, capital of West Virginia, U.S., seat of Kanawha county, and the largest city in the state. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains, at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers (there bridged to South Charleston), in the south-central part of the state....
Charles Town (The Bahamas)
capital of The Bahamas, a port on the northeastern coast of New Providence Island, and one of the world’s chief pleasure resorts. The climate is temperate and the sandy beaches and scenery are beautiful. Although the city proper is comparatively small, suburbs and residential districts stretch far a...
Charles Town (Jefferson county, West Virginia, United States)
city, seat (1801) of Jefferson county, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. The city lies 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Martinsburg. Laid out in 1786 by George Washington’s youngest brother, Charles, it early became the residence of some of Virginia’s most aristocratic families. By the end of the 18th century it had ...
Charles Towne (South Carolina, United States)
city, seat of Charleston county, southeastern South Carolina, U.S. It is a major port on the Atlantic coast, a historic centre of Southern culture, and the hub of a large urbanized area that includes Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Hanahan, and Goose Creek. The city is situated on a peninsula between the estuaries of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, facing a fine deepwater harbou...
Charles University (university, Prague, Czech Republic)
state-controlled institution of higher learning in Prague, Czech Republic. The school was founded in 1348 by the Holy Roman emperor Charles IV, from whom it takes its name. It was the first university in central Europe. Among its buildings, scattered throughout Prague, is the Carolinum, one of the oldest existing university ...
Charles V (Holy Roman emperor)
Holy Roman emperor (1519–56), king of Spain (as Charles I, 1516–56), and archduke of Austria (as Charles I, 1519–21), who inherited a Spanish and Habsburg empire extending across Europe from Spain and the Netherlands to Austria and the Kingdom of Naples and reaching overseas to Spanish America. He strugg...
Charles V (king of France)
king of France from 1364 who led the country in a miraculous recovery from the devastation of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453), reversing the disastrous Anglo-French settlement of 1360....
Charles V (Spanish prince)
the first Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne (as Charles V) and the second surviving son of King Charles IV (see Carlism)....
Charles V Leopold (duke of Lorraine and Bar)
duke of Lorraine and Bar, Austrian field marshal who commanded the forces defeating the Turks before the gates of Vienna in 1683 and subsequently expelled them from most of Hungary....
Charles V, Palace of (palace, Granada, Spain)
Although the exuberant Plateresque style lingered in some regions until about 1560, it was soon superseded by a much more Classical style, which appeared in 1526 in the Palace of Charles V within the Alhambra at Granada. The Palace of Charles V was the first Italian Classical building in Spain, in contrast to Plateresque buildings that were Classical only in terms of a few elements of Italian......
Charles VI (king of France)
king of France who throughout his long reign (1380–1422) remained largely a figurehead, first because he was still a boy when he took the throne and later because of his periodic fits of madness....
Charles VI (Holy Roman emperor)
Holy Roman emperor from 1711 and, as Charles III, archduke of Austria and king of Hungary. As pretender to the throne of Spain (as Charles III), he attempted unsuccessfully to reestablish the global empire of his 16th-century ancestor Charles V. He was the author of the Pragmatic Sanction, intended to enable his daughter Maria Theresa to succeed him after the extinction of the direct male line of ...
Charles VI (Spanish noble)
the second Carlist, or Bourbon traditionalist, Spanish pretender (as Charles VI) who twice attempted unsuccessfully to seize the throne and who by perpetuating the breach within the Bourbon royal family helped weaken support for the monarchy....
Charles VII (king of France)
king of France from 1422 to 1461, who succeeded—partly with the aid of Joan of Arc—in driving the English from French soil and in solidifying the administration of the monarchy. Before ascending the throne he was known as the Dauphin and was regent for his father, Charles VI, from 1418....
Charles VII (king of Spain)
king of Spain (1759–88) and king of Naples (as Charles VII, 1734–59), one of the “enlightened despots” of the 18th century, who helped lead Spain to a brief cultural and economic revival....
Charles VII (Spanish noble)
the fourth Carlist, or Bourbon traditionalist, pretender to the Spanish throne (as Charles VII) whose military incompetence and lack of leadership led to the final decline of the Carlist cause....
Charles VII (Holy Roman emperor)
elector of Bavaria (1726–45), who was elected Holy Roman emperor (1742–45) in opposition to the Habsburg Maria Theresa’s husband, Francis, grand duke of Tuscany....
Charles VIII (king of France)
king of France from 1483, known for beginning the French expeditions into Italy that lasted until the middle of the next century....
Charles VIII Knutsson (king of Sweden)
king of Sweden (1448–57, 1464–65, 1467–70), who represented the interests of the commercially oriented, anti-Danish Swedish nobility against the older landowning class of nobles who favoured a union with Denmark. He was twice removed from office by his opponents. His disputed kingdom can be regarded as a forerunner to the national Swedish kingdom created by ...
Charles William Ferdinand of Brunswick (Prussian noble)
duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, Prussian field marshal, and an enlightened ruler. Though he was Frederick II the Great’s nephew and favourite disciple, Charles proved to be less than successful in his military career, being defeated by Revolutionary France at Valmy (1792) and ...
Charles, William John (Welsh athlete)
Welsh association football (soccer) player (b. Dec. 27, 1931, Cwmdu, Wales—d. Feb. 21, 2004, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, Eng.), was hailed as the best footballer ever to come out of Wales, which he represented 38 times in international matches, including Wales’s only World Cup appearance in 1958; he was also the first British footballer to achieve success in Italy. At age 16 Charles s...
Charles X (king of France)
king of France from 1824 to 1830. His reign dramatized the failure of the Bourbons, after their restoration, to reconcile the tradition of the monarchy by divine right with the democratic spirit produced in the wake of the Revolution....
Charles X Gustav (king of Sweden)
king of Sweden who conducted the First Northern War (1655–60) against a coalition eventually embracing Poland, Russia, Brandenburg, the Netherlands, and Denmark. His aim was to establish a unified northern state....
Charles XI (king of Sweden)
king of Sweden who expanded royal power at the expense of the higher nobility and the lower estates, establishing an absolutist monarchy that ended only with the death of Charles XII in 1718....
Charles XII (king of Sweden)
king of Sweden (1697–1718), an absolute monarch who defended his country for 18 years during the Great Northern War and promoted significant domestic reforms. He launched a disastrous invasion of Russia (1707–09), resulting in the complete collapse of the Swedish armies and the loss of Sweden’s status as a great power. He was, however, also a ruler of the ea...
Charles XII Bible
...version (the Gustavus Adolphus Bible, named for the reigning Swedish king) was issued in 1618, and another with minor alterations by Eric Benzelius in 1703. The altered Bible was called the Charles XII Bible, because it was printed during the reign of Charles XII. In 1917 the church diet of the Lutheran Church published a completely fresh translation directly from modern critical......
Charles XIII (king of Sweden)
king of Sweden from 1809 and, from 1814 to 1818, first king of the union of Sweden and Norway (called Karl II in Norway). The second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, he was created duke of Södermanland by his elder brother, King Gustav III, and later served as admiral of the...
Charles XIV John (king of Sweden and Norway)
French Revolutionary general and marshal of France (1804), who was elected crown prince of Sweden (1810), becoming regent and then king of Sweden and Norway (1818–44). Active in several Napoleonic campaigns between 1805 and 1809, he subsequently shifted allegiances and formed Swedish alliances with Russia, Great Britain, and Prussia, which defeated Napoleon at the Battle ...
Charles XV (king of Sweden and Norway)
king of Sweden and Norway from 1859 to 1872 (called Karl IV in Norway). Succeeding his father, Oscar I, on July 8, 1859, Charles was an intelligent and artistically inclined ruler much liked in both kingdoms. The royal power, however, was considerably reduced during his reign as the ...
Charles-Ferdinand University (university, Prague, Czech Republic)
state-controlled institution of higher learning in Prague, Czech Republic. The school was founded in 1348 by the Holy Roman emperor Charles IV, from whom it takes its name. It was the first university in central Europe. Among its buildings, scattered throughout Prague, is the Carolinum, one of the oldest existing university ...
Charlesbourg (Quebec, Canada)
former city, Québec region, southern Quebec province, Canada. In 2002 it was incorporated into Quebec city, becoming a borough of the enlarged city. It lies in the northwestern part of the city. First known as Bourg Royal and later renamed in honour of its ...
Charlesbourg Royal (Quebec, Canada)
former city, Québec region, southern Quebec province, Canada. In 2002 it was incorporated into Quebec city, becoming a borough of the enlarged city. It lies in the northwestern part of the city. First known as Bourg Royal and later renamed in honour of its ...
Charlesfort (South Carolina, United States)
...early in the 16th century. In 1562 the French Huguenot Jean Ribaut sailed into the sound and called it Port Royal. He then established one of the first European settlements in North America, Charlesfort, probably on southern Parris Island (just to the south of Port Royal Island), and left 30 men there. In 1563 the settlers killed their leader and returned to Europe. The Spanish occupied......
Charleson, Ian (Scottish actor)
Scottish stage actor best known for his work in the film Chariots of Fire (1981), which won an Academy Award Oscar for best picture....
Charles’s law (physics)
a statement that the volume occupied by a fixed amount of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature, if the pressure remains constant. This empirical relation was first suggested by the French physicist J.-A.-C. Charles about 1787 and was later placed on a sound empirical footing by the chemis...
Charles’s Wagon (constellation)
in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky, at about 10 hours 40 minutes right ascension and 56° north declination. It was referred to in the Old Testament (Job 9:9; 38:32) and mentioned by Homer in the Iliad ...
Charles’s Wain (constellation)
in astronomy, a constellation of the northern sky, at about 10 hours 40 minutes right ascension and 56° north declination. It was referred to in the Old Testament (Job 9:9; 38:32) and mentioned by Homer in the Iliad ...
Charleston (West Virginia, United States)
city, capital of West Virginia, U.S., seat of Kanawha county, and the largest city in the state. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains, at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers (there bridged to South Charleston), in the south-central part of the state....
Charleston (county, South Carolina, United States)
county, southern South Carolina, U.S. It comprises a low-lying coastal region with numerous swamps and marshy areas. A portion of the Sea Islands, strung along the Atlantic coast, form the southeastern border; rivers and the Intracoastal Waterway separate the islands from the mainland. The northern end of this long, narrow county includes Ca...
Charleston (Illinois, United States)
city, seat (1830) of Coles county, east-central Illinois, U.S. It lies near the Embarras River, about 45 miles (70 km) south of Champaign. First settled by Benjamin Parker (1826), it was named for Charles Morton, its first postmaster. In September 1858 Charleston was the scene of the fourth debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen...
Charleston (poem by Timrod)
Located at the mouth of the harbour of Charleston, S.C., Fort Sumter was a fortification of masonry and brick that rose 60 feet (18 metres) above the waterline. Originally Federal property, it had been the first Confederate prize of the Civil War; it was natural that the Union would want it back. The siege of Charleston—so called, although the city was never......
Charleston (South Carolina, United States)
city, seat of Charleston county, southeastern South Carolina, U.S. It is a major port on the Atlantic coast, a historic centre of Southern culture, and the hub of a large urbanized area that includes Mount Pleasant, North Charleston, Hanahan, and Goose Creek. The city is situated on a peninsula between the estuaries of the Ashley and Cooper rivers, facing a fine deepwater harbou...
Charleston (Ohio, United States)
city, Lorain county, northern Ohio, U.S. It is located on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Black River, about 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Elyria and 25 miles (40 km) west of Cleveland. Moravian missionaries camped briefly on the site in 1787, but the first permanent settler was Nathan Perry, from Vermont, who...
Charleston (dance)
social jazz dance highly popular in the 1920s and frequently revived. Characterized by its toes-in, heels-out twisting steps, it was performed as a solo, with a partner, or in a group. Mentioned as early as 1903, it was originally a black folk dance known throughout the American South and especially assoc...
Charleston, College of (college, Charleston, South Carolina, United States)
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. It consists of schools of the Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Sciences and Mathematics. The college offers a range of bachelor’s degree programs. In cooperation with s...
Charleston Museum (museum, Charleston, South Carolina, United States)
...Charleston Library Society (1748), the Carolina Art Association (1858), and the South Carolina Historical Society (1855). The College of Charleston was the nation’s first municipal college, and the Charleston Museum (founded 1773) is the oldest museum in the United States....
Charleston, Oscar (American athlete)
American baseball player and manager who was considered by many to have been the best all-around ballplayer in the history of the Negro leagues....
Charleston, Oscar McKinley (American athlete)
American baseball player and manager who was considered by many to have been the best all-around ballplayer in the history of the Negro leagues....