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Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. Jimmie Lee Jackson (December 16, 1938 – February 26, 1965) [1] [2] was an African American civil rights activist in Marion, Alabama, and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18, 1965, while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city, he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot ...
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.
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
Start date Sit-in(s) Location Ref. Notes August 21, 1939 Alexandria Library sit-in: Alexandria, Virginia: 1943 Chicago Chicago, Illinois: July 1948 Des Moines Katz Drugstore protests
John Y. Brown Jr. John Young Brown Jr. (December 28, 1933 – November 22, 2022) was an American politician and entrepreneur from Kentucky. He served as the 55th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, and built Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.
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Prairie View A&M College. Tony Russell " Charles " Brown [1] (September 13, 1922 – January 21, 1999) was an American singer and pianist whose soft-toned, slow-paced nightclub style influenced West Coast blues in the 1940s and 1950s. Between 1949 and 1952, Brown had seven Top 10 hits in the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. [2]
A male northern flicker in Roslyn, New York. The northern flicker or common flicker ( Colaptes auratus) is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern ...