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Robert Hicks (other)
Robert Hicks or Bob Hicks may refer to: * Barbecue Bob (1902–1931), early American blues musician born Robert Hicks * Bob Hicks (activist) (1929–2010), American civil rights activist in Louisiana * Bob Hicks (American football) (1921–2012), American college football coach * Bobby Hicks (1933–2024), American bluegrass fiddler * Robert C. Hicks (1927–2018), American college football coach * Robert Drew Hicks (1850–1929), English classical scholar * Robert Hicks (American author) (1951–2022), American author and preservationist * Robert Hicks (American football) (born 1974), NFL offensive tackle * Robert Hicks (Australian footballer) (born 1991), Australian rules footballer * Robert Hicks (British politician) (born 1938), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Cornish constituencies * Robert Hicks (Canadian politician) (1933–2014), Canadian Progressive Conservative politician See also * Hicks (other) Hicks is a surname. Hicks may also refer to: _ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbecue Bob
Robert Hicks (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931), known as Barbecue Bob, was an American Piedmont blues musician who played 12 string guitar which was popular in the Atlanta, Georgia area at the time. A record talent scout gave him his nickname because he worked as a cook in a barbecue restaurant. One of the two existing photographs of him shows him playing his guitar and wearing a full length, white apron and cook's hat. Early life Hicks was born in Walnut Grove, Georgia. His parents, Charlie and Mary Hicks, were sharecropers. They moved to Newton County where his friend Curley Weaver's mother, Savannah "Dip" Weaver, taught Bob and his brother, Charley Lincoln, how to play the guitar.Barlow, William (1989). Charlie Hicks. ''"Looking Up at Down": The Emergence of Blues Culture''. Temple University Press. pp. 195–96. . Hicks began playing the six string guitar but picked up the 12 string guitar after moving to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1924. He became one of the promin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicks (activist)
Robert Hicks (February 20, 1929 – April 13, 2010) was a prominent leader in Bogalusa, Louisiana during the Civil Rights Movement, whose activism helped put an end to segregation and discriminatory practices in education, housing, employment, public accommodations and healthcare. Best known for his leading role in founding the Bogalusa chapter of The Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed African-American self-defense group, Hicks led daily protests on the streets of Jim Crow-era Bogalusa. He served as president and later Vice President of the Bogalusa Civic and Voters League, and the plaintiff in a series of civil rights lawsuits which achieved groundbreaking legal victories nationwide. Biography Early life and family Robert Hicks was born on February 20, 1929, in Pachuta, Mississippi, the youngest child of Quitman and Maybell Crawford Hicks. He moved to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with his family when he was a young child. In 1947, he graduated from the segregated Central Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicks (American Football)
Robert Bruce Hicks (July 12, 1921 – November 24, 2012) was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Indiana University for one season in 1957, compiling a record of 1–8. Hicks was born on July 12, 1921, in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He attended Hazleton High School, where he played football and basketball before earning a football scholarship from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United St .... Hicks died on November 24, 2012. Head coaching record References 2012 deaths 1921 births Indiana Hoosiers football coaches Tennessee Volunteers football players Wyoming Cowboys football coaches Sportspeople from Hazleton, Pennsylvania Players of American football from Luzerne County, Pennsylvania< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Hicks
Robert Caldwell Hicks (July 21, 1933 – August 16, 2024) was a Grammy Award-winning American bluegrass fiddler and musician with more than fifty years of experience. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2017. Life and career Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina, and learned to play the fiddle before he was 9 years old. He attended several fiddlers conventions and at the age of eleven, he won the North Carolina State Championship playing the tune " Black Mountain Rag". He joined Jim Eanes's band in the early 1950s. In 1953, bluegrass festival organizer Carlton Haney introduced Hicks to Bill Monroe, who hired him as a bass player. He first recorded with the Bluegrass Boys on December 31, 1954, by which time he had switched to fiddle. During this period, he learned to play "Nashville swing" by the session fiddler Dale Potter, a style Hicks often used when playing with Bill Monroe on the road. Monroe dubbed Hicks ''"the truest fiddler he had e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert C
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Drew Hicks
Robert Drew Hicks (29 June 1850 – 8 March 1929) was a classical scholar, and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. The son of William Hicks, head clerk in the post office at Bristol,Alumni Cantabrigienses part II, vol. III, John Venn, 1944, pg 360 Hicks was born in 1850, was educated at Bristol Grammar School,The Times, Saturday, Mar 09, 1929; p. 14 - and entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1868.Herbert S. Long, Preface to the 1972 reprint of Diogenes Laërtius, ''Lives of Eminent Philosophers'', I. Loeb Classical Library Graduating BA in 1874, he became a fellow of Trinity in 1876. He was college lecturer in Classics from 1884 to 1900. He married Bertha Mary Heath in 1896, who herself held an MA in Classics from the University of London. His brother-in-law was Sir Thomas Heath. Between 1898 and 1900 Robert Hicks became blind, but he nevertheless produced most of his major works after this time, aided by his wife. He died at his home, Fossedene, at Mount Pleasant, Cambrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (American Author)
Robert Benjamin Hicks III (January 30, 1951 – February 25, 2022) was an American author. He wrote the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''The Widow of the South'' and has played a major role in preserving the historic Carnton mansion, a focal point in the Battle of Franklin which occurred on November 30, 1864. ''Nashville Lifestyles'' Magazine named Hicks among the top 100 Reasons to Love Nashville, describing him as Nashville's "Master of Ceremonies". Life and career Robert Hicks was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, on January 30, 1951. He moved to Williamson County, Tennessee, in 1974 and lived near the Bingham Community at "Labor in Vain," his late-eighteenth-century log cabin. Hicks died from cancer near Franklin, Tennessee, on February 25, 2022, at the age of 71. Historic preservation The American Battlefield Protection Program has called his work to preserve the site of the Battle of Franklin "the largest battlefield reclamation in North American history." By the end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hicks (American Football)
Robert Otis Hicks Jr. (born November 17, 1974) is an American former professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Buffalo Bills from 1998 until 2000. He played college football at Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Mississippi State, Mississippi, Un ... and was selected by Buffalo in the third round of the 1998 NFL draft. References 1974 births Living people American football offensive tackles Buffalo Bills players Mississippi State Bulldogs football players Players of American football from Atlanta 20th-century American sportsmen {{offensive-lineman-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
