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Children. 5. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (born September 14, 1941) is an American civil rights activist who was active in the 1960s. She was one of the Freedom Riders who was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi in 1961, and was confined for two months in the Maximum Security Unit of the Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as "Parchman Farm"). [1]
Front view of the campus. Mississippi University for Women ( MUW or "The W") is a coeducational public university in Columbus, Mississippi. It was formerly named the Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls [5] and later the Mississippi State College for Women. Men have been admitted to MUW since 1982 [6] and as of 2022 ...
Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. List of African-American historic places in Mississippi. Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital. Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education. Louis Allen.
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Founded as Mary Holmes Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, the college began as the brainchild of Reverend Mead Holmes (1819–1906), a Presbyterian missionary, and his daughter, Mary Emilie Holmes (1850–1906). They wanted to start a "literary and industrial school" for young black women in honor of Rev. Holmes's late wife, Mary D. Holmes.
Jackson Women's Health Organization (abbreviated JWHO and commonly known as the Pink House [1] [2]) was an abortion clinic located in a bright pink building in Jackson, Mississippi 's Fondren neighborhood. [3] It was the only abortion clinic in Mississippi since the other one closed in 2006. [4] The JWHO closed its doors on July 6, 2022 ...
Black Boy (1945) is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, detailing his upbringing. Wright describes his youth in the South: Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, and his eventual move to Chicago, where he establishes his writing career and becomes involved with the Communist Party. Black Boy gained high acclaim in the United States ...
The indictment said Paduch had worked in New York from 2003 through 2023 as a practicing urologist specializing in male reproductive health. Urologist convicted of patient sex abuse, including of ...