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Maceo Snipes was a veteran and civil rights leader who was murdered in Taylor County, Georgia on July 18, 1946 after Snipes, a black World War II veteran, voted in…

Sylvester James Gates Jr. (born December 15, 1950), known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory.…

Pineville man Charles F. Page predates Wright Brothers in invention of airship according to local historian By Brandon Brown Oct 6, 2023 By Brandon Brown Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by OriginalPeople (@originalpeoplewebsite) ALICE MAE REDMOND – A SLICE OF GINO’S HISTORY Did a sweet, soft-spoken cook develop part of the pizza…

Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed “the Say Hey Kid“, was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League…

General Order No. 143 was an 1863 military directive of the United States War Department which authorized the establishment of a bureau regulating the recruitment, training and organization of the…

The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges in U.S. states using the proceeds from sales of federally owned land, often obtained…

Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s. It was eventually extended from piano to piano duo…

Pearl Moore (born March 16, 1957) is a retired American professional basketball player who played for the Women’s Professional Basketball League. During her collegiate career at Francis Marion University, Moore…