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James Reeb marching with Ralph Abernathy and Reverend King Monument for Reeb in Selma, Alabama. As a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Reeb went to Selma to join the Selma to Montgomery marches, a series of protests for African-American voting rights that followed the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson in Marion, Ala., by a law enforcement officer.
The Toledo News Bee is a defunct newspaper that served Toledo, Ohio, and much of northwestern Ohio in the early part of the 20th century. It was formed from the 1903 merger of The Toledo News and The Toledo Bee , and was published until August 2, 1938, when it was purchased by The Toledo Blade for USD 787,000.
The Church of St. Patrick is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church at 130 Avondale Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, in the Diocese of Toledo. It is noted for its historic parish church, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]
1927 – James Reeb, American clergyman and political activist (d. 1965) [236] 1927 – Vernon L. Smith, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate [237] 1927 – Doak Walker, American football player and businessman (d. 1998) [238] 1928 – Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter (d. 1984) [239]
Sierah Joughin (February 11, 1996 – July 22, 2016) was an American woman who was abducted and murdered in Delta, Ohio.She disappeared on July 19, 2016, and was found dead three days later.
Curry County District Attorney Andrea Reeb announced prior to the trial that she intended to prosecute Jouett as an adult. [10] The suspect made his first court appearance on August 31, 2017. [ 13 ] Jouett was indicted on September 8, 2017, for two counts of first-degree murder , seven counts of child abuse , four counts of aggravated battery ...
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
On July 28, 1946, a funeral for the Dorseys and Dorothy Malcom was held at the Mount Perry Baptist Church. [13] As George Dorsey was a World War II veteran, his coffin was draped in an American flag. [13] The funeral was well attended by the national news media, although many black people stayed away out of fear. [13]