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John Henry the Revelator [50] by Constantine von Hoffman is a magical realist novel, in which a teenage boy in 1930s Alabama, Moses Crawford, acquires superpowers and helps challenge the nation's white power structure. The black community calls Crawford John Henry, after the folk hero, because no one is aware of his true identity.
John Henry "Flash" Suther (December 20, 1907 – March 15, 1984) ... He joined the Alabama national guard as a senior in high school, serving for 38 years. [3]
John Henry Caldwell (April 4, 1826 – September 4, 1902) was a U.S. Representative from ... which at the time encompassed the most north-eastern part of Alabama.
John Henrik Clarke (born John Henry Clark; January 1, 1915 – July 16, 1998) [1] was an African-American historian, professor, prominent Afrocentrist, [2] and pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
The founder of Enterprise, John Henry Carmichael, first settled there in 1881. Carmichael opened a store, which attracted more settlers to the area, and by the next year, a post office was relocated from the settlement of Drake Eye to the north to Enterprise. In 1896, with 250 people having settled there, the city of Enterprise incorporated.
Capt. John James Ward, Ward's Battery, Alabama Light Artillery Unit position marker at Vicksburg National Military Park. ... Dyer, Frederick Henry.
A man convicted in the killing of his 4-month-old son has died on Alabama's death row, state corrections officials said. The Alabama Department of Corrections, in a statement Friday to The ...
John Henry McCray (1910–1987) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher, politician, civil rights activist, and college academic administrator.An African American, he worked at some of the country's most prominent Black newspapers including the Lighthouse and Informer newspaper of South Carolina (from 1941 to 1954); the Charleston Messenger; the Pittsburgh Courier as the Carolina ...