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Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure.. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
Frank Brown was shot and killed at his home on Oakley Road in Castle Hayne on July 3, 2002. His two sons found the 46-year-old when they got home. According to authorities, the person who ...
Claudette Colvin, arrested in March 1955, nine months before Parks' arrest, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated Montgomery bus. Cleveland Court Apartments 620–638 , home of Rosa and Raymond Parks, and her mother, Leona McCauley, during the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to 1956.
The murder charges against Carlishia Hood, the mother seen in a video urging her 14-year-old son to shoot and kill a man at a fast food restaurant, have been dropped after further footage came to ...
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The younger brother then tried to get the 15-year-old to fight, and the older brother refused. The two were separated by an uncle who was in the home and made the 14-year-old go outside.
Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.