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Shelby: Tennessee: 1892: Complaint from competing white grocery store owner. So-called Curve Riot (not a riot). Reported on by Ida B., whose newspaper was destroyed and had to leave the state. [136] McDowell, Calvin: Adult: African-American: Memphis: Shelby: Tennessee: 1892: Complaint from competing white grocery store owner. So-called Curve ...
Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms.
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. [1] Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative , a three-volume history of the American Civil War .
Percival Leonard Everett II (born December 22, 1956) [1] is an American writer [2] and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.He has described himself as "pathologically ironic" [3] and has played around with numerous genres such as western fiction, mysteries, thrillers, satire and philosophical fiction. [4]
Harold and Iquilla Degree married on Valentine's Day in 1988. Their son, O'Bryant, was born a year later; Asha was born in 1990. [3] The Degrees raised both children in their house on Oakcrest Drive in a residential subdivision amidst a generally rural area north of Shelby, North Carolina, on the western edge of the Charlotte metropolitan area. [4]
Kenny Powers is a fictional world famous baseball player in the HBO television comedy series Eastbound & Down, played by Danny McBride. [citation needed] He is portrayed as a once dominant baseball pitcher, whose poor work ethic, ego, and short temper jeopardized his professional career.
[133]: 233 Between 1965 and the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder to strike down the coverage formula, the attorney general certified 153 local governments across 11 states. [151] Because of time and resource constraints, federal observers are not assigned to every certified jurisdiction for every election.
Ellen Wrenshall Grant (July 4, 1855 – August 30, 1922) was the third child and only daughter of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant and First Lady Julia Grant. At the age of 16, Nellie was sent abroad to England by President Grant, and was received by Queen Victoria .