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The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1763 to 1803 was marked by the transfer of French Louisiana to Spanish control, the founding of the city of St. Louis, its slow growth and role in the American Revolution under the rule of the Spanish, the transfer of the area to American control in the Louisiana Purchase, and its steady growth and prominence since then.
Shaare Zedek Synagogue founded. 1906 Racquet Club of St. Louis founded. Statue of Louis IX of France unveiled in Forest Park. 1908 Aero Club of St. Louis incorporated. [43] Aeronautic Supply Company in business. [43] St. Louis Coliseum re-built. [2] Fairground Park established. [30] 1909 – October: City centennial. 1910 – Population ...
In 2011 St. Louis was named by U.S. News & World Report as the most dangerous city in the United States, using Uniform Crime Reports data published by the U.S. Department of Justice. [266] In addition, St. Louis was named as the city with the highest crime rate in the United States by CQ Press in 2010, using data reported to the FBI in 2009. [267]
In 1926, Douglass University, a historically black university was founded by B. F. Bowles in St. Louis, and at the time no other college in St. Louis County admitted black students. [36] In the first half of the 20th century, St. Louis was a destination in the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South seeking better opportunities.
The "founder and father of Presbyterianism" in Missouri was Salmon Giddings, who established twelve churches in the state, including the first Protestant church in St. Louis. [80] The first wholly separate Congregationalist church was established by a former Presbyterian congregation in St. Louis in 1852 under the leadership of T.M. Post. [80]
He was born in Helena, Arkansas and grew up there before settling in St. Louis after high school. [1] In 1930, McNeal joined the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In 1942, McNeal and attorney David M. Grant founded the St. Louis branch of the March on Washington Movement (MOWM). After years of working as a union organizer, in ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
A Catholic academy, St. Louis Academy (later Saint Louis University), was established in 1818 as the first college west of the Mississippi River. [3] According to William Barnaby Faherty, Rev. Peter Verhaegen , SJ., was a key leader in building Catholicism in the West from his arrival 1823 to his death in 1853.