02/09/2010 by sunnydelyte21
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925-June 12, 1963)
Medgar Evers was an African American Civil Rights Activist from Mississippi. If you’ve heard the name you might have seen the movie “Ghosts of Mississippi“
On June 12, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway after just returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers. Emerging from his car and carrying NAACP T-shirts that read “Jim Crow Must Go,” Evers was struck in the back with a bullet fired from an Enfield 1917 .303 rifle that ricocheted into his Jackson, Mississippi home. He staggered 30 feet before collapsing. He died at a local hospital 50 minutes later, just hours after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on national television in support of civil rights.
Dist. Attorney Robert B. DeLaughter (Feb. 28,1954- )
Roberto DeLaughter prosecuted and secured the conviction of Byron De La Beckwith for the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The Beckwith prosecution occurred in January 1994. Evers was assassinated by Beckwith on June 12, 1963. Mississippi authorities had twice previously failed to convict Beckwith in 1964.
After DeLaughter successfully prosecuted the racially movitated case, he was inspired to write the book Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Case, the book was published in 2001.
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02/08/2010 by sunnydelyte21
Dred Scott (1799-Sept. 17,1858)
Dred Scott was a salve who sued unsuccessfully in 1857 for his freedom in St. Louis, Missouri.
The US Supreme Court ruled in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford that he, nor any other person of African decent, could claim citizenship in the US.
The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation was established in June 2006 by a great great granddaughter of Dred, named Lynne Jackson.
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02/05/2010 by sunnydelyte21
1.) For ever action there are consequences…. NUFF SAID!
2.) Happy Birthday to ma home girl MIA!!!
3.) My two BFFs spoke to each other last night!! It’s a big deal because it’s been months!!!!!
4.) Still waiting for my income tax $$$. I have plans to knock some of these bills down.
5.) A friend let me know in a round about way that SHE is interested. Wow, I don’t go there with friends. Now, how am I supposed to act around her? One word, AKWARD!!!
6.) It’s about to be a snow storm and my refrigerator is empty. Only good thing is my daughter won’t be home, but what about ME!!!???
7.) I’m just in this funk…. If I hurt your feelings this week? SP (Sounds Personal) … I got my own issues and I can’t deal with both!!!
8.) Where I live. NUFF SAID!!!
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