Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,068

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,067

This is the grave of Diahann Carroll. Born in 1935 in The Bronx, Carol Diann Johnson was the daughter of a subway worker and a nurse, so pretty firmly in the Black middle class of that place and time. She grew up in Harlem and showed interests in the arts immediately. She and Billy Dee Williams were classmates at the Music and Art High School on the Upper West Side. Her parents were really supportive of her goals and she enjoying singing, dancin…