• J. L. Chestnut Jr. (December 16, 1930 – September 30, 2008) was an author, attorney, and a figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He was the first African-American...
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    The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a large, fast-growing deciduous tree of the beech family native to eastern North America. As is true of all...
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    rights leaders Sam, Amelia and Bruce Boynton, Rev. L.L. Anderson of Tabernacle Baptist Church, J.L. Chestnut (Selma's first black attorney), SCLC Citizenship...
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    temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Chestnut trees are of moderate growth rate (for the Chinese chestnut tree) to fast-growing for American and European...
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    Castanea sativa, the sweet chestnut, Spanish chestnut or just chestnut, is a species of tree in the family Fagaceae, native to Southern Europe and Asia...
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    Chestnut is a hair coat color of horses consisting of a reddish-to-brown coat with a mane and tail the same or lighter in color than the coat. Chestnut...
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    American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and American chinquapin (Castanea pumila) are highly susceptible to chestnut blight. The European chestnut (Castanea...
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    Aesculus hippocastanum, the horse chestnut, is a species of flowering plant in the maple, soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is a large, deciduous...
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    Aesculus (redirect from Horse-chestnut tree)
    Aesculus (/ˈɛskjʊləs/ or /ˈaɪskjʊləs/), with species called buckeye and horse chestnut, comprises 13–19 species of flowering plants in the family Sapindaceae...
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    lines then makes a southeast curve just before the intersection with J.L. Chestnut Junior Boulevard. The concurrency with SR 22 ends at Dallas Avenue,...
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    The chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) is a small passerine bird in the tit family, Paridae, native to western North America. In the early 20th...
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    The chestnut, also known as a night eye, is a callosity on the body of a horse or other equine, found on the inner side of the leg above the knee on the...
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    Eleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia, tropical Africa, and Oceania. It is grown in many...
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  • civil rights activist Joanne Bland – civil rights movement activist J.L. Chestnut – author, attorney, and a figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement Annie...
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    Chestnut Hill is a neighborhood in the Northwest Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for the high incomes of...
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  • African American male probate judge in Bullock County, Alabama (1976) J.L. Chestnut (1958): First African American male lawyer in Selma, Dallas County,...
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    Rosa Parks (redirect from Rosa L. Parks)
    herself to civil rights and educational organizations. She co-founded the Rosa L. Parks Scholarship Foundation for college-bound high school seniors, to which...
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  • married a white woman. Both McMillian and the attorney he had in 1987, J. L. Chestnut, "contended that Mr. McMillian's relationships alone had made him a...
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    grows in swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Monguba (Brazil), Pumpo (Guatemala)...
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    National Park Scenic AAR Selma to Montgomery March Byway 54.0 86.9 Alabama J.L. Chestnut Jr. Boulevard and Martin Luther King Street in Selma Alabama State Capitol...
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    Thurgood Marshall (redirect from Marshall J)
    found himself in dissent. His closest ally on the Court was Justice William J. Brennan Jr., and the two voted the same way in most cases. Marshall's jurisprudence...
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  • producer Harold Chestnut (1917–2001), American electrical engineer, control engineer and manager at General Electric and author J. L. Chestnut Jr. (1930–2008)...
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    intersections before entering the city limits. CR 44 along with Cahaba Road and J.L. Chestnut Junior Boulevard provide an alternate route into downtown Selma. East...
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    01948-01-011948 01954-01-011954 Now Crescent Hill Drive, Cahaba Road, and J.L. Chestnut Jr Boulevard SR 156 7.186 11.565 SR 17 at Jachin SR 114 at Pennington...
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    Rocha, P.; Petersen, J.L.; Rangel Salazar, J.L.; Segars, K.P.; Wood, K.L.; Bonan, A. (2014). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de...
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    Testament The Kingdom of God Is Within You, 1894 Leo Tolstoy book Cross, F.L., ed. (2005), "Sermon on the Mount", The Oxford dictionary of The Christian...
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    Her mother finally convinced her father to let her go to the school. Judge J. Skelly Wright's court order for the first day of integrated schools in New...
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    p. 16. ISBN 978-0-8239-3544-4. Retrieved September 27, 2012. Brown, Nikki L. M.; Stentiford, Barry M. (2008). The Jim Crow Encyclopedia: Greenwood Milestones...
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    Roan (horse) (redirect from Chestnut roan)
    include both chestnut and bay roans. In 1999, the American Paint Horse Association changed its coat color descriptions; roans with a chestnut background...
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    2022. Short, L.L. (2020). Chestnut-eared Aracari (Pteroglossus castanotis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D...
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