Medgar Wiley Evers was one of Mississippi’s most impassioned activists, orators, and visionaries for equality and against brutality.
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“During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Philip Bell Downing successfully filed at least five patents with the United States Patent Office. Among his most significant inventions were a street letter box and a mechanical device for operating street railway switches. Downing also enjoyed a long career as a clerk with the Custom House in Boston, Massachusetts, retiring in 1927 after more than thirty years of service.
THE LEGACY OF OUR ICONS All too often, in this fast paced, on demand world, it has become incredibly easy to take for granted the genius…