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Mary Turner (c. 1885 [11] – 19 May 1918) was a young, married black woman and mother of three—including an unborn child—who was lynched by a white mob in Lowndes County, Georgia, for having protested the lynching death of her husband Hazel "Hayes" Turner the day before in Brooks County. [16] She was eight months pregnant, and her baby was ...
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot. [2] He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important ...
Lynchings. Massacres and riots. Reactions. Related topics. v. t. e. Article in the Calhoun Times, April 27, 1899. Sam Hose (born Samuel Thomas Wilkes; c. 1875 – April 23, 1899) was an African American man who was tortured and murdered by a white lynch mob in Coweta County, Georgia, after being accused of rape.
Robert Hughes was born in Monticello, Missouri, the son of Abraham Guy Hughes (1878–1957) and Georgia Alice Weatharby (1906–1947).He was born "weighing a hefty but not abnormal" 11 pounds 4 ounces (5.1 kg) [2] [3] and was a "fairly average-size baby until he contracted whooping cough at about five months old."
Georgia Douglas Johnson. Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 15, 1966), was a poet and playwright. She was one of the earliest female African-American playwrights, [ 1 ] and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Civil engineer, railway engineer and bridge designer, aviation pioneer. Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American [1] civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of aviation and the initial ...
Weeks later, on Sept. 11, 2019, after a trip to the beach 9/11 memorial, she and Coreno stopped by her home. Alexa greeted the pair and remembers that she "almost wanted to cry in a happy way when ...
The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company. [ 1 ] The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided ...