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Clyde Dotson. Clyde J Dotson (July 29, 1905 - September 30, 1982) [1] was a Baptist missionary who served in Zimbabwe when it was still Rhodesia and led the formation of the Rhodesian Mission Board and the Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe. Dotson died in 1982 and was buried in Alabama. [2]
June 27, 1951 (age 72) Lineville, Alabama, U.S. Political party. Republican. Profession. Funeral director. Koven L. Brown (born June 27, 1951) is an American politician. He was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 40th District, serving from 2010 to November 9, 2022. He is a member of the Republican party.
Karen Blanche Black (née Ziegler; July 1, 1939 – August 8, 2013) was an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She rose to prominence for her work in various studio and independent films in the 1970s, frequently portraying eccentric and offbeat characters, and established herself as a figure of New Hollywood.
Born. ( 1939-11-28) November 28, 1939 (age 84) Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S. Occupation. Minister. Known for. Civil rights activist, Freedom Rider. James Zwerg (born November 28, 1939) is an American retired minister who was involved with the Freedom Riders in the early 1960s.
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942 – October 13, 2005) was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963, and in 1965 became the university's first black graduate. She was made famous when George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, attempted to block her and James Hood from enrolling at the all-white ...
Abbeville, Alabama, U.S. Occupation. Sharecropper [1] Recy Taylor (née Corbitt; December 31, 1919 – December 28, 2017) [2] : 297 was an African-American woman from Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama. She was born and raised in a sharecropping family in the Jim Crow era Southern United States. In the 1940s, Taylor's refusal to remain silent ...
Tom Marcel. Education. Brooklyn College. Howard University ( BA) Tom David Kahn (September 15, 1938 – March 27, 1992) was an American social democrat known for his leadership in several organizations. He was an activist and influential strategist in the Civil Rights Movement. He was a senior adviser and leader in the U.S. labor movement.
Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action in the early 1960s in Cambridge, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. Recognized as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement, she was one of the ...