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Charlotte, North Carolina: Police pursued Thompson after she drove away from a traffic stop. Following the chase Thompson crashed into a telephone pole. When she attempted to drive away, an officer shot and killed her. [67] January 11, 1994 Shu'aib Abdul-Latif: 17 New York City, New York: During a building search an officer struggled with Abdul ...
R.S. Lewis & Sons Funeral Home has operated continuously in downtown Memphis, Tennessee since 1914. The home has held services for many prominent African-Americans, including Benjamin Hooks and Martin Luther King Jr. The Lewis family was known for its civic leadership.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of North Carolina since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. There have been a total of 43 executions in North Carolina, under the current statute, since it was adopted in 1977. All of the people executed were convicted of murder.
PETA is pitching an edible alternative to Punxsutawney Phil predicting the weather this upcoming Groundhog Day: A cake that when cut is blue or pink.
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Theresa Burroughs (1929 – May 22, 2019) [1] was an active participant in the civil rights movement during the 1960s. She worked to secure the right to vote for blacks in Alabama and the rest of the Southern United States .
Burroughs may refer to: Former spelling of boroughs; Burroughs, Georgia, a historically African American community now a neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia; Burroughs Corporation, a maker of adding machines and computers; Burroughs (surname), people and fictional characters; The Burroughs, a district of London; Burroughs (crater), on Mars
Franklin G. Burroughs (December 28, 1834, Martin County, North Carolina – 1897) was an American turpentine and naval entrepreneur who, along with Benjamin Grier Collins, founded the Burroughs and Collins company, later known as Burroughs and Chapin.