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Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Notable interments include: John Abercrombie, U.S. Congressman [1] Bibb Graves, 38th Governor of Alabama [2] Dixie Bibb Graves, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Alabama [3] J. Lister Hill, U.S. Congressman and Senator [4] Reuben Kolb, Alabama's commissioner of agriculture [5]
The Davie County Enterprise-Record is a weekly newspaper based in Mocksville, North Carolina that serves Davie County, North Carolina. The editor of the paper is Mike Barnhardt. The Evening Post Publishing Company owned the paper from 1997 to 2014, when it was acquired by Boone Newspapers. [1]
Mocksville is a town in Davie County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 5,900 at the 2020 census. I-40 leads west to Statesville and Hickory, and east to Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Route 64 heads east to Lexington, and west towards Statesville and Taylorsville. [5] It is the county seat of Davie County. [6]
First Lady of North Carolina Gordon Persons: 46th Governor of Alabama (1951–1955) [74] Martha Roby: Congresswoman from Alabama's 2nd congressional district (2011-2021) [75] Joe M. Rodgers: Construction executive, United States Ambassador to France [76] Sylvia Swayne: First openly transgender woman to run for public office in Alabama [77 ...
Davie County Courthouse, 2012. Downtown Mocksville Historic District is a national historic district located at Mocksville, Davie County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 21 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the central business district of Mocksville.
During the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, marchers rested at the church on their way to the Capitol. [2] It is included on the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail . The congregation moved to a new location in 1990, and on November 4, 2002, the building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
The Montgomery, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area (commonly known as the Tri-Counties or the River Region) is a metropolitan area in central Alabama. As of 2020, the MSA had a population of 386,047, ranking it 142nd among United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas. That number is up +3.07% from the 2010 census number of 374,536.