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Florence Mars (January 1, 1923 – April 23, 2006) was an American civil rights activist and author best known for her book Witness in Philadelphia about the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.
In Eastern Europe, the Humboldt University Medical School has had a tissue bank since 1956 and supplied 50,000 bone grafts to more than 250 hospitals between 1956 and 1991. [11] Throughout Europe, the European Bone Bank Foundation, Bone Implant Services, and the Euro-Skin Bank are a few organizations that prepare donated grafts for surgery. [11]
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
U.S. Route 78 (US 78) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that runs for 843.3 miles (1,357.2 km) from Swifton, Arkansas, to Charleston, South Carolina.From Byhalia, Mississippi to Graysville, Alabama, US 78 runs concurrently with Interstate 22 (I-22).
Craig Scott Bounds (born February 12, 1962) is an American politician. He is a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 44th District. He was first elected in 2003 as a Democrat [1] but subsequently switched to Republican affiliation. [2]
Jonestown town, Mississippi – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2010 [10] Pop 2020 [11] % 2010 % 2020 White ...
Resorts Casino Tunica, formerly Southern Belle Casino and Harrah's Tunica Mardi Gras Casino, was a 201-room hotel and a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m 2) casino located in Tunica Resorts, Mississippi. It was one of three casinos located in the "Casino Strip" area, along with Sam's Town and Hollywood Casino .
As a result of the pending merger, 106 of CoreStates' bank branches were set to close. Upon hearing this, Schorsch offered to buy every (vacant) bank branch building. He recalled in a 2005 interview in The New York Times, "They [the bank] thought I was a crazy man." The $22.3 million deal was completed within 37 days, and within 12 months he ...