1 Santa Claus, in the United States, is real to almost every child. 2  The story of this magical man that each year drops from the chimney with gifts, is born from a very real man named Nicholas,later called Saint Nicholas, who lived in the third century AD.
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When her mother remarried, the young Lena was raised by her grandparents. She attended Washington high school in Atlanta, and then Girls high school (now Boys and Girls high school) in Brooklyn. Her paternal grandmother, Cora Calhoun Horne, was a political activist who persuaded Lena to join the NAACP. At 16, having dropped out of high school, Horne became a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club, encountering the music of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Billie Holiday, and meeting all the stars that performed there.