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Montgomery city, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [55] Pop 2010 [56] Pop 2020 [57] % 2000 % ...
Rhonda Belle Martin (née Thomley; [1] c. 1907 – October 11, 1957) was an American serial killer and family annihilator who was executed by the state of Alabama for the murder of Claude Carroll Martin, her fourth husband, in 1951.
Georgia Teresa Gilmore (February 5, 1920 – March 7, 1990) was an African-American woman from Montgomery, Alabama, who participated in the Montgomery bus boycott through her fund-raising organization, the Club from Nowhere, which sold food at Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meetings. [1]
[4]: 9 It was in Montgomery, Alabama, where Robinson joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier. The WPC was an organization dedicated to inspiring African Americans to rise above the level of mediocrity that they had been conditioned to accept, to fight juvenile delinquency, increase voter registration in the African American community, and to ...
Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer [27] Claudette Colvin: Pioneer of the civil rights movement [28] Morris Dees: Southern Poverty Law Center founder [29] Mahala Ashley Dickerson: First black female attorney in Alabama [30] Fred Gray: Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan (February 21, 1914 – July 16, 1957) was a librarian and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama.The only daughter from a well-to-do white family, Morgan was an early member of the community that pushed for integration.
Carr was born on January 26, 1911, to parents John and Annie Richmond Daniels as the youngest of six children. [1] When she was nine, Carr’s father died; following his death, the family, now guided by a single mother, moved away from their farm to the nearby city of Montgomery, Alabama.
Hank Williams's funeral, recorded as the largest funeral in Montgomery's history and one of the largest in the entire Southern United States, had a line two and a half city blocks long between the Montgomery City Auditorium and the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, with three trucks required to handle the wreaths that were placed at the Annex, and (according to R. L. Lampley and Marvin Stanley ...