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Ross-Clayton Funeral Home was the largest Black funeral chapel in the city and has a long history of community service, particularly during the civil rights movement. [12] [13] The funeral home supported the movement by providing transportation for black voters and participating in the Montgomery bus boycott, [14] [15] conduct class for colored wardens, with E. P. Wallace, serving as the ...
A small-town Alabama mayor died apparently by suicide just days after a conservative news site published pictures of him allegedly wearing women's clothes and makeup, officials said Sunday.
William Julian Usery Jr. (/ ˈ ʌ s ər iː / US-ər-ee; [1] December 21, 1923 – December 10, 2016) was an American labor union activist and government appointee who served as United States secretary of labor in the Ford administration.
This list of cemeteries in Alabama includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
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On February 21, 1994, in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux [d] (April 18, 1956 – February 22, 1994) was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a group of four youths while she was hitchhiking from Tennessee to her mother's house in Louisiana.
Key Underwood established the cemetery on September 4, 1937, interring his coon dog, Troop, in an old hunting camp [5] [6] [7] located in rural Colbert County, Alabama, US. The closest town is Cherokee, Alabama. [8] [9] At the time, Underwood only intended to bury Troop in a place they had coon hunted together for 15 years. The memorial was a ...
He was born on February 2, 1922, in Athens, Georgia. [1] Usry graduated from Atlantic City High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1946 from Lincoln University.From 1946 to 1951, he was a professional basketball player with the New York Renaissance and Dayton Rens.