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The Davis brothers got the idea for opening the Brockman Gallery during the drive back to Southern California from the 1966 Meredith March in Jackson, Mississippi. [5] They opened the Brockman Gallery in 1967 on Degnan Avenue in Leimert Park. [6] [7] The name "Brockman" refers to Alonzo and Dale's maternal grandmother's maiden name. [8]
Davis studied at the Slough Mechanics Institute while working at the local gas works, and then spent a year studying at the Royal School of Mines in London (now part of Imperial College, London) before leaving to work in the chemical industry around Manchester, which at the time was the main centre of the chemical industry in the UK.
Ben Montgomery was born into slavery in 1819 in Loudoun County, Virginia.In 1837, he was sold south, and purchased in Natchez, Mississippi, by Joseph Emory Davis.He was taken to Hurricane Plantation, the home of Davis and his wife, Eliza.
After the war Davis sold the property to Ben Montgomery, a former enslaved person whom Davis had assigned before the war as manager of his plantation, and a group of freedmen. They financed the sale by a long-term note. Davis died in 1870. He was buried in the Davis Family cemetery on Davis Island, but his gravestone has been damaged. [2]
Scott Foster, Tony Brothers, Marc Davis and James Capers were among the 12 game officials chosen to work the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks. The NBA announced the ...
Davis used religious meetings and revivals as a tool for KKK recruitment and was a traveling evangelist and pastor, founding churches in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Indiana, and Kentucky. He baptized and ordained William Branham as a minister in 1929, who served as an elder in his church and participated in Davis's revival meetings.
Born 75 years ago on the date that was Armistice Day and became Veterans Day, retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Lebronze Davis entered the world with a natural connection to the military.
The Lindup grandparents came from Worthing, Sussex, but in Davis's younger childhood owned a country house at Bampton, Oxfordshire which he and his brothers liked to visit. Davis, like his older brothers, went to the Dragon School, and later, during World War II, contributed newsletters from Egypt and Syria to The Draconian, the school magazine.