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At 695 feet (212 meters), 330 North Wabash is the second-tallest building by Mies van der Rohe, the tallest being the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower at Toronto-Dominion Centre. It was his last American building. [2] The building's original corporate namesake no longer owns nor has offices in the building.
3. Though they were forbidden from signing up officially, a large number of Black women served as scouts, nurses and spies in the Civil War.. 4. One of the greatest African rulers of all time ...
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Marion Women’s Club is directing funds raised at its fifth annual Celebrity Dance Gala held March 2 to safely house the original and electronic archives inside what was the ...
July 30 – At a special meeting in Jackson, Mississippi called by Governor Hugh White, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, along with nearly one hundred other black leaders, publicly refuse to support a segregationist plan to maintain "separate but equal" in exchange for a crash program to increase spending on black schools.
In 1988 he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in the city, devoted to African-American history from slavery to the present. Cameron was a survivor of a lynching attempt, which occurred when he was a 16-year-old suspect in a murder/robbery case in Marion, Indiana ; two older teenagers were killed by the mob.
North Wabash Historic District is a national historic district located at Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana. It encompasses 159 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Wabash. It encompasses 159 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Wabash.
Under their guidance, the black and white community of Marion raised five hundred dollars to buy land for the school's campus. The money to build the school building came from the American Missionary Association (AMA). In 1868, school trustees sought the assistance of the AMA for help with day-to-day operation of the school.