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Henriette Díaz DeLille, SSF (March 11, 1813 [1] – November 17, 1862) was a Louisiana Creole of color and Catholic religious sister from New Orleans.She founded the Sisters of the Holy Family in 1836 and served as their first Mother Superior.
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's ...
Caroline Quarlls was born in St. Louis in 1826, enslaved by her paternal grandfather. [2] [3] Robert Pryor Quarlls (also Quarles), was her father and owner. [3] [4] Her mother had married a successful blacksmith who was born free. Quarlls' mother and her sister were dead by the time she was sixteen, but Quarlls had been in contact with her ...
The uniform was that of future St. Louis Cardinals managing partner and chairman William DeWitt, Jr. who was a 9-year-old batboy for the Browns at the time. Gaedel came out of a papier-mache cake between games of a doubleheader at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis to celebrate the American League's 50th anniversary. [14]
In 2005, the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, opened a George Washington Carver garden in his honor, which includes a life-size statue of him. A color film of Carver shot in 1937 at the Tuskegee Institute by African American surgeon Allen Alexander was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2019.
A man convicted of killing a St. Louis police officer in 2020 was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Thursday. Judge Elizabeth Hogan ordered Thomas Kinworthy Jr., 46, to serve two ...
In 2010, St. Louis ranked 14th in African American population, with a dissimilarity index of 71.0 (the fifth-highest score in major cities in the US) and an isolation index of 53.8 (the 6th highest score in major cities in the US). [9] This study found St. Louis to be one of the most segregated cities in the U.S.
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