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Ray Hicks was born on August 29, 1922, in Banner Elk, North Carolina. He was the fourth of 11 children [4] of Nathan and Rena Hicks. [5] He had Cherokee ancestry, traced through his great-grandmother. [6] Storytelling and ballad-singing were a big part of life with the Hicks family. Ray was in the eighth generation of family storytellers. [4]
The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes. In 1927 Alexander purchased the remaining part of the business and changed the name to the Alexander Funeral Home.
Shirley L. Fulton (January 2, 1952 – February 8, 2023) was an American judge and prosecutor. [1] [2] She was the first African American woman to serve as a judge in the Superior Court of North Carolina, a position she held for 14 years. [3]
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Erica Lynn Parsons (February 24, 1998 – c. December 17, 2011) was a 13-year-old girl from Salisbury, North Carolina, who disappeared mysteriously in 2011.. On July 30, 2013, Erica's brother Jamie reported to police she was missing and that he had not seen her since November 2011, stating their parents "killed Erica and buried her in our back yard", but later retracted this. [1]
Word of Faith Fellowship began in 1979, when Jane Whaley, then a math teacher, and her husband Sam Whaley converted a former steakhouse into a chapel. Jane Whaley, the daughter of a plumber and a homemaker in rural North Carolina, led the group as it grew to a membership of 750.
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...
Kim Walker [1] (born Kimberly Anne Walker; June 19, 1968 – March 6, 2001 [2]), was an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Heather Chandler in the 1988 black comedy Heathers. [3] Walker's sole starring role came in the 1995 independent drama film A Reason to Believe, where she portrayed the character Judith.