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In Eastern Europe, the Humboldt University Medical School has had a tissue bank since 1956 and supplied 50,000 bone grafts to more than 250 hospitals between 1956 and 1991. [11] Throughout Europe, the European Bone Bank Foundation, Bone Implant Services, and the Euro-Skin Bank are a few organizations that prepare donated grafts for surgery. [11]
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths ...
The CHTN was established in 1987 as the Cooperative Human Tissue Network by the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Diagnosis Program. [2] The University of Alabama at Birmingham, National Disease Research Interchange in conjunction with the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and The Ohio State University with a subcontract to Nationwide Children's Hospital were awarded the first ...
Edgar Ray Killen was born on January 10, 1925, in Philadelphia, Mississippi, as the oldest of eight children [6] to Lonie Ray Killen (1901–1992) and Jetta Killen (née Hitt; 1903–1983). [7] Killen was a sawmill operator and a part-time Baptist minister. [ 8 ]
Florence Mars (January 1, 1923 – April 23, 2006) was an American civil rights activist and author best known for her book Witness in Philadelphia about the murder of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.
The reluctance of the NAACP to accept new ideas led Amzie Moore to a student conference in Atlanta in 1960. Moore, president of the Cleveland, Mississippi chapter and state vice-president of the NAACP, had become frustrated with the legalistic and slow moving national office, and respected the idealism and devotion of the new student movement in other parts of the country.
Craig Scott Bounds (born February 12, 1962) is an American politician. He is a Republican member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 44th District. He was first elected in 2003 as a Democrat [1] but subsequently switched to Republican affiliation. [2]
Pattison is located on the former Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad and was once home to a drug store, grist mill, cotton gin, saloon, hotel, and multiple general stores. [ 6 ] A post office operated under the name Martin from 1879 to 1912 and first began operation under the name Pattison in 1912.