Died

Jet, Jan 29, 2001

Died: James Carr, 58, who recorded the 1960s Southern soul staples The Dark End of the Street and Pouring Water on a Drowning Man, of cancer in a Memphis nursing home ... Lowell Perry, 66, an all-American receiver at the University of Michigan in the 1950s who became the first Black to serve as an NFL broadcaster, the first Black assistant coach in the NFL's modern era and chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the Ford administration, of cancer at a hospital in Southfield, MI ...

Arthur Jewel Wilson, Jr., 77, noted Illinois law enforcement officer who was one of the first Black undergraduates of Princeton University and one of its first Black basketball players ... Dr. Lewis Carnegie Dowdy, Sr., 77, chancellor emeritus of North Carolina A & T State University who was the school's first chancellor and served as its sixth president, at Carolina Commons in Greensboro, NC.