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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.
He attended the Huston–Tillotson University (1950) and earned a Bachelor of Divinity at the Gammon Theological Seminary in 1954.He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. [1] Joseph E. Boone was a minister of the First Congregational Church in Anniston, Alabama from 1955 to 1959. From 1959 to 1980, he was Pastor of the Rush Memorial ...
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.
Victims. Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, 45. Date. March 18, 1988. Imprisoned at. Holman Correctional Facility [1] The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method.
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
The Alabama State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with each constituency containing at least 42,380 citizens. There are no term limits in the House. The House is also one of the five ...
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. Many children left their schools and were arrested, set free, and then ...
July 15, 2021. (2021-07-15) (aged 99) New York City, New York, U.S. Education. Howard University ( BA) Known for. Cambridge movement during 1960s Civil Rights 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 ...