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Malachi Collins was a minister, entrepreneur and activist. He established the funeral home that Clarie would one day run and helped found the Jackson, Mississippi branch of the NAACP. Mary Collins was also active in social justice work and became the first black librarian in the state of Mississippi. [3]
After Evers was assassinated, an estimated 5,000 people marched from the Masonic Temple on Lynch Street to the Collins Funeral Home on North Farish Street in Jackson. Allen Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights leaders led the procession. [28] The Mississippi police came to the non-violent protest armed with riot gear and rifles.
The most prominent funeral homeowner in Biloxi, [1] he won a $500 million jury award in a contractual dispute with the rival funeral home company Loewen Group, later settling for $175 million. O'Keefe was a major donor to and chief fundraiser for the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art , named after his wife Annette, and many other civic, cultural and ...
Tito Jackson's family has laid the Jackson 5 singer to rest nearly two months after his death at 70.. According to People magazine, TMZ and the Daily Mail, Jackson's funeral took place Monday at ...
The Kaniya Fobs House stands in northern Jackson, in what is called the Elraine Subdivision. This area was developed as the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. The house is on the north side of Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, a few doors east of its junction with Missouri Street.
The woman, who identified herself as Shay, told The Post she saw the truck on Tuesday and her surveillance footage shows the vehicle's lights turn on at around 12:25 a.m. on New Year's Day.
Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Marion, Greene, Perry ?–1873 Roderick Seal: 1865–1867 1886–1890 Hancock, Harrison, Jackson Democratic 1817–? C. Stevens Seale: 1993–1996 Forrest, Lamar Republican 1953–2022 [122] J. Lem Seawright: 1900–1904 1908–1912 Oktibbeha, Choctaw Democratic 1871–? Billy Semmes: 1956–1960 Grenada, Yalobusha ...
Jane Gaudreau, mother of late NHL players Matthew and Johnny Gaudreau, wrote a sweet message reacting to the birth of her grandson, Tripp Gaudreau.