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Bobby Frank Cherry, 2001 News
former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted in May of the 1963 murder of four black girls who died in the fiery explosion of the Birmingham, Alabama, 16th Street Baptist Church. The…Robert C. Byrd
Name at birth: Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States senator from the state of West Virginia from 1959 until his death in 2010. A Democrat, he was the longest serving…Samuel Bowers 2006 Deaths
Samuel BowersAge: 82 leader of the notoriously violent Mississippi White Knights division of the Ku Klux Klan. After the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael H.…Duke, David Ernest
(Encyclopedia) Duke, David Ernest, 1950-, American far-right politician and Klan leader, b. Tulsa, Ok., Louisiana State Univ. (B.A., 1974). Duke’s…Confederate Flag Controversy History
by Borgna Brunner The "Southern Cross"The Confederate battle flag, called the "Southern Cross" or the cross of St. Andrew, has been described variously as a proud emblem of…Hugo LaFayette Black
Black, Hugo LaFayette, 1886–1971, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1937–71), b. Harlan, Clay co., Ala. He received his law degree from the Univ. of Alabama in 1906. He practiced law…Angela Davis
Writer and activist Angela Davis first came to national prominence in the late 1960s, and for two months in 1970 she was on the F.B.I.'s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. She has since earned her…Civil Rights March on Washington
All about the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 Related Links Quotes from Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Speeches Martin Luther King Biography Civil Rights Timeline…D.W. Griffith
Name at birth: David Wark GriffithD.W. Griffith was an American filmmaker who is considered by many to be the most influential figure in the history of cinema. He began his career as a stage actor…1920 – 1929 World History
Benito Mussolini(1883–1945)National Archives and Records Admin.Bessie Smith(1894–1937)The Library of Congress Picture CollectionWilliam Butler Yeats(1865–1939)Archive PhotosJoseph Stalin (…Trending
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