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The Georgia NAACP described the killing as "a case of racial profiling". [3] The State of Georgia paid $4.8 million dollars to the widow and survivors of Mr. Lewis to resolve the civil rights claims. The settlement is the largest civil rights settlement paid by the State of Georgia.
Ralph Meeker (born Ralph Rathgeber; November 21, 1920 – August 5, 1988) [1] was an American film, stage, and television actor. He first rose to prominence for his roles in the Broadway productions of Mister Roberts (1948–1951) and Picnic (1953), [ 1 ] the former of which earned him a Theatre World Award for his performance.
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast.
Darton State College was a public college in Albany, Georgia.It was part of the University System of Georgia and had its highest enrollment, 6,097 students, in 2011. [2] Prior to its merger with Albany State University in 2016, the college offered 84 two-year transfer and career associate degrees, 4 four-year baccalaureate degrees, and 49 certificate programs.
On his return, flying through the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, from Imphal to Lalaghat, the USAAF North American B-25H-1-NA Mitchell bomber, 43-4242, [22] [246] of the 1st Air Commando Group [247] in which he is traveling crashes into jungle-covered hills near Bishnupur, Manipur, in the present-day state of Manipur in Northeast India.
The Meeker Mansion Museum is a historic house in Puyallup, Washington, United States. It is the second of two homes in the city which were resided in by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker, the first one being a cabin on the homestead claim which Meeker as well as Hunter Thompson and Will Brines purchased from Jerry Stilly in 1862. This was a one ...
Fitzgerald is a city in and the county seat of Ben Hill County in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. [6] As of 2020, its population was 9,006. [7] It is the principal city of the Fitzgerald micropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Ben Hill and Irwin counties.
Meeker's grave at Graceland Cemetery. Letters he wrote to his family from Europe in the 1930s suggest he was homosexual. [12] He had a thirty-year relationship with Robert Molnar, with whom he lived from at least 1940 until Meeker's death in their New York City home on October 22, 1971. [12] Meeker named Molnar his heir. [12]