• 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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  • 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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    Led by the Boynton family (Amelia, Sam, and son Bruce), Rev. L. L. Anderson, J. L. Chestnut, and Marie Foster, the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) tried...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and American chinquapin (Castanea pumila) are highly susceptible to chestnut blight. The European chestnut (Castanea...
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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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    white colleagues were addressed formally as "Mister"; black lawyer J. L. Chestnut later said that "Judge George Wallace was the most liberal judge that...
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    empowering urban youth in the United States. Dyson and his third wife, Marcia L. Dyson, were regular guests and speakers at the Aspen Institute Conferences...
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    Retrieved November 5, 2013. Jet, October 1, 1964 Henderson Paul L, A. Scott; Thomas, Paul L.; Reese, Charles (2014). "8. James Baldwin: Artist as Activist...
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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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    James Farmer (redirect from James L. Farmer)
    Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young." James L. Farmer Jr. was born in Marshall, Texas, to James L. Farmer Sr. and Pearl Houston, who were both educators...
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    (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Sing Out Publication, 1993, 1997), page 22. Daniel J. Wakin, "This Just In: Pete Seeger Denounced Stalin Over a Decade Ago" Archived...
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    received major financial support from white supremacist Texas oil baron H. L. Hunt due to Elijah's belief in racial separation from whites. The money helped...
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  • Emmett Till (redirect from J. W. Milam)
    Several nights after the encounter, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam, who were armed, went to Till's great-uncle's house and abducted...
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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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    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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    conversation with Gordon Parks, two days before his assassination, Malcolm said: [L]istening to leaders like Nasser, Ben Bella, and Nkrumah awakened me to the...
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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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    signed by Kuzin, Civil Rights attorney JL. Chestnut, former Ugandan president Godfrey Binaisa, and others. Chestnut was interviewed in the Tuscaloosa News...
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    the original on August 28, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2020. Suarez, Xavier L. (October 27, 2011). Democracy in America: 2010. AuthorHouse. pp. 10–....
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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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    Richard L. (March 27, 1991). "Behind-the-scenes role for a 'shadow senator'". The New York Times. Retrieved January 6, 2008. Berke, Richard L. (March...
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