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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Roanoke, Virginia. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
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The April 16, 2007, shooting at Virginia Tech, which claimed 32 lives. The February, 2008 resignation of Roanoke City councilman Alfred Dowe. [6] Dowe resigned after The Roanoke Times obtained documents showing that he billed taxpayers twice for some of the nearly $15,000 he spent in 2007 on meals and travel.
“He believed in living a sermon instead of speaking a sermon,” his son says. Herndon was a principal at multiple Wake schools. Former school principal Leon Herndon dies.
Fleming Alexander founded the Roanoke Tribune newspaper in 1939 at 5 Gilmer Avenue, later moved to 312 Henry Street, and then to Melrose Avenue in Roanoke. As an African-American newspaper, it brought attention against the Jim Crow laws of Roanoke and Western Virginia, and championed black representation on Roanoke's public boards and better schools for the black children in the segregated ...
Roy L. Webber (November 7, 1904–October 1975) [1] [2] served twice as the mayor of the U.S. city of Roanoke, Virginia. He was mayor from 1949 to 1954 and from 1968 to 1975. Webber was a florist and the business he established in Roanoke carried his name until its closure in 2008.
Robert Herndon Fife Jr. (November 18, 1871 – January 8, 1958) ... VA (1895-1898) before continuing studies at Göttingen and Leipzig from 1898 to 1901.
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