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On June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi, erected a statue in honor of Evers. All of Delta Drive (part of U.S. Highway 49) in Jackson was renamed in his honor. In December 2004, the Jackson City Council changed the name of the city's airport to Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Evers' honor. [41]
Fort Worth Fire Department's Truck 2 responding to a call The 1970s and 1980s saw many changes to the department. The police and fire departments had been reorganized into the city's public safety department, while the fire department was also internally reorganized.
Busiest domestic routes from Jackson-Evers International Airport (August 2023 – July 2024) [32] Rank City Passengers Airline/s 1 Atlanta, Georgia: 257,650 Delta, Southwest 2 Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas: 110,750 American 3 Houston–Hobby, Texas: 81,410 Southwest 4 Charlotte, North Carolina: 68,630 American 5 Houston–Intercontinental, Texas ...
A small group of Fort Worth City Council members and staff sit in a semi-circle late Friday morning, listening intently as instructors from the city’s fire department explain how to use the ...
The transition is expected to take anywhere between 12 and 18 months and affects over 1 million people in Fort Worth and 13 surrounding cities. Fort Worth City Council votes to approve transition ...
A city of Fort Worth employee was fired Tuesday after being arrested for arson and drug possession. An investigation by the city’s fire department pointed to Frederick Lamond Harris as being ...
In Fort Worth, he managed the White Elephant, a saloon/gambling house. [6] [7] Marshal Courtright was running a protection racket at the time, and needed to make an example of Short, who also had a sizable reputation as a gunfighter mostly due to an 1881 gunfight with gunslinger Charlie Storms at the Oriental Saloon in Tombstone, Arizona. [7]
Medgar Evers had just arrived home in the early hours of June 12, 1963, when a white supremacist fatally shot him, hours after President John F. Kennedy delivered a televised speech about civil ...