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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 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.
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The Smith family continued the mortuary business in the 1940s and a family named Collins bought it in the 1980s and renamed it Smith Collins funeral home until 2015. The Holliday House was a ...
Marcus Johnson is still being sought by the Jackson Police Department where he was briefly employed as an officer. ... 33, is wanted in the death of Carlos Collins, 25. JPD said Collins was shot ...
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 ...
Collins is a city in Covington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,586 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Covington County.