Died

Jet, April 15, 2002

Bernard S. Jefferson, 91, who was one of the first Blacks appointed to the California appellate courts and who co-founded two-week educational programs for new judges, of pneumonia in a Los Angeles convalescent hospital ... James F. Blake, 89, the White Montgomery bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat to a White passenger and had her arrested when she refused, of a heart attack at his home in Montgomery ...

Bishop Donald George Kenneth Ming, 71, the 97th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, of heart failure at Hahnemann University Hospital after an attack at his home in Philadelphia.