Angelena Rice

Angelena Ray Rice (21 July 1924 – August 1985), a teacher of high school music and science in Birmingham, Alabama and Denver, Colorado, was the mother of former United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She was born in Alabama to Albert Robinson Ray III and his wife Mattie Lula Parham (Alabama She married John Wesley Rice, Jr. and lived in Titusville, a Black middle class neighbourhood in Birmingham, Alabama. She named her daughter Condoleezza, after the Italian musical notation “con dolcezza” mean... [ Read More at Wikipedia ]