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Alan Wayne Partin (March 16, 1961 – March 28, 2023) was an American prostate surgeon and researcher. He was the Jakurski Family Director of the Brady Urological Institute, Urologist-In-Chief of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and professor of Urology, Pathology, and Oncology. In 1993, he developed the PartinTables to help prostate cancer ...
Carla Ann Hughes (born June 12, 1981) [1] is a former middle school teacher and murderer from Jackson, Mississippi, who was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the November 29, 2006 slayings of her lover's pregnant fiancee, Avis Banks, and Banks's unborn child. [2] She is serving two consecutive sentences of life without parole at the ...
Biography. Alney Dale Danks Jr. was born on August 27, 1939, in Miami, Florida, to Alney Dale Danks Sr. and Elizabeth Ross. [2] When Danks was 3, his family moved to Alabama. [2] In 1954, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi. [2] He graduated from Murrah High School and enrolled in Millsaps College in 1957. [5]
SWAC 0–0. NCAA: 0–0. Douglas William Shanks[1][2][3][4] (October 25, 1946 - September 4, 2023) was an American college baseball coach. He was a city commissioner of Jackson, Mississippi and was on their city council. [5][6] He served as the head coach of the Mississippi Valley State Devils (2001–2014).
Frank Ervin Melton (March 19, 1949 – May 7, 2009) [1] was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009.Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson, who had served two terms.
John Kingsley Lattimer, MD (October 14, 1914, in Mount Clemens, Michigan – May 10, 2007, in Teaneck, New Jersey) was a urologist who did extensive research on the Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first medical specialist not affiliated with the United States government to examine the medical evidence related to Kennedy's assassination. [1]
Jackson, Mississippi. Coordinates. 32°17′48″N 90°12′12″W / 32.2965351°N 90.2034219°W / 32.2965351; -90.2034219. NRHP reference No. 100001028. Mount Olive Cemetery is a historic burial ground for African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1][2][3]
The Mississippi Health Project was a health initiative sponsored by the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority during the Great Depression. The purpose of the Mississippi Health Project was to bring health awareness to Mississippi Delta residents who did not have access to health care. The initiative lasted for six years, until World War II.