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Civil rights activism. Nickname (s) "Bennie"; "Buck Bennie". Benjamin Elijah Mays (August 1, 1894 – March 28, 1984) was an American Baptist minister and American rights leader who is credited with laying the intellectual foundations of the American civil rights movement. Mays taught and mentored many influential activists, including Martin ...
Failure of perpetrator to cremate bodies. Arrests. Ray Brent Marsh. Convicted. Ray Brent Marsh. Charges. Abuse of corpses, theft by deception, burial service-related fraud, making false statements. The Tri-State Crematory scandal was a scandal at a crematorium in the Noble community in northwest Georgia that came to national attention in 2002.
A funeral procession is a procession, usually in motor vehicles or by foot, from a funeral home or place of worship to the cemetery or crematorium. [1] [2] In earlier times the deceased was typically carried by male family members on a bier or in a coffin to the final resting place. [3] This practice has shifted over time toward transporting ...
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Sadie Gray Mays (August 5, 1900 – October 10, 1969) was an African-American social worker, trained at the University of Chicago. As the wife of Benjamin Mays , she was also a prominent Baptist minister's wife, a college president's wife (at Morehouse College , from 1940 to 1967), and a civil rights activist.
Designated NHL. December 21, 1981. Meadow Garden is a historic house museum at 1320 Independence Drive in Augusta, Georgia. It was a home of Founding Father George Walton (1749–1804), one of Georgia's three signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. [2] Walton was later elected governor of Georgia and also served as a United States senator.
Democratic. Alma mater. South Georgia College. University of Georgia. Medical College of Georgia. James Roy Rowland Jr. (February 3, 1926 – April 25, 2022) was an American World War II veteran, politician, and physician who served six terms as a United States representative from Georgia from 1982 to 1995.
James U. Jackson. James U. Jackson statue. James Urquhart Jackson (June 24, 1856 – October 15, 1925) [1] was a native of Augusta, Georgia, who founded and developed the city of North Augusta, South Carolina. Jackson worked as a financer, a railroad builder, and as a developer of industrial affairs for Georgia. [2]