Found inside – Page 25It is in the building that housed the Olmstead Funeral Home until the business required ... The museum's centerpiece is a somber, black horse-drawn hearse, ... Found inside – Page 40The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory Karlos K. Hill ... black children, two black churches, a Masonic hall, and a black-owned funeral home. Found inside – Page 328The funeral home's records indicate that the funeral was paid for by Mr. R. ... where most black dentists practicing in early-twentieth-century Arkansas ... Found inside – Page 58Additionally, as the owner of Montgomery's largest black funeral home, he was financially independent and not easily intimidated by white economic reprisals ... Found inside – Page 107Swilley's Funeral Home Records, 1959-1970, 2 microfilm rolls M79- 182. (F-Ar) Trinity United Methodist Church (Tallahassee) Records 1836-195- 2 microfilm ... Found inside – Page 146Civil rights leaders complained that police officers conducting traffic stops were unfairly singling out blacks and Hispanics . In June 1999 , in ... He later opened a funeral home in Maryland , returning to his original career . He is buried in Detroit ... Found inside – Page 65The story also outlined the fact that the A.R. Leak Funeral Home (now called ... Many of these funerals were for victims of the escalating black-on-black ... Found insideJones was the son of one of the black funeral homes in Kansas City, ... Black Jack also introduced me to a cheap Arkansas wine still made today called ... Found inside – Page 89... in Arkansas because of the heat. It was unbearable. In order to relieve Ericka of the heat, Nicki called the funeral home and talked to the director. Found inside – Page 109No genuine bowie knives have ever been made outside of Arkansas , for when Black died , some time after the war , his secret of tempering steel died with him . Imitations have been Funeral Directors attempted . They were not genune bowie ... Found inside... by the Governor of Arkansas to the State Health Planning Council . ... a black funeral home director , rented them a house on Liberty Street next to his ... Found insideThe 1959 Fire at the Arkansas Negro Boys Industrial School Grif Stockley ... Lawrence File,” Grif Stockley Papers, “The century old Hubble Funeral Home . Found inside – Page 28... A. R. Leak Sr. (r), proprietor of the A. R. Leak Funeral Home, ... BUSINESS $15 Million Black Owned Building Opens In Harlem Black control of business ... Found inside – Page 226Ebony Magazine, 24, 51, 86 Edmondson, William, 2II Elaine (Arkansas) race riot of ... See also Black funeral business; Embalming; Funerals; Wakes Funerals, ... Found inside – Page 183Kinscy , Infant of Mr and Mrs VICES ULDISOR 08 , BLACK , THURSDAY Funeral ... wu rendered by a quar Funeral Home in charge of ar : Kot , composed of Mr J.N. ... Found insideHe cleaned his tear-streaked face and took the Cottage Grove bus to Leak Funeral Home. A. R. Leak Funeral Home had been laying out dead Black people since ... Found inside – Page 66Back then in the 70s there were almost no black people in Arizona. ... who had owned the first black funeral home in Dumas, Arkansas, thanks to RC, ... Found inside – Page 62African American A few African - American slaves were in Arkansas before the ... funeral homes , libraries , chambers of commerce , and newspapers . Found inside – Page 618The Board of Directors of the Councils then drew up bylaws for the clinic ... black funeral home director , rented them a house on Liberty Street next to ... Found inside – Page 318before the election by a black funeral-home operator, LaVester McDonald, ... thanks to a big vote in south Arkansas, where I had lots of relatives and good ... Found inside – Page 328Fort Smith Public Library, Fort Smith ar. Birnie Funeral Home records; city death records; city directories; business directory; genealogy room. Found inside – Page 77Almost all the oldest and most prominent Negro churches and funeral homes were located in this enclave. The prosperous Negro business district stretched ... Found inside – Page 370... the harvest comes There was neither rain nor freedom in Forrest City , Arkansas the place where I spent the summer of ... a white funeral home and a black funeral home . a river of hatred and fear ran down the social center of town sharply ... Found inside – Page 370The Atlantic (January 26, 2016), https://www.theatlantic.com/business/ar chive/2016/01/black-funeral-homes-mourning/426807/. Stanton, Laura Stanton and ... Found inside – Page 84Wonderful , cool air hit me as I entered the funeral home . It smelled like flowers : not like honeysuckle , but like the overwhelming bouquets at the drug store . A short man in a black suit , with a few moist wisps of hair parted across his gleaming ... Found inside – Page 265... of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) , and and Roth funeral home . ... blacks for government agentiary in Huntsville , Texas , and the Arkansas ... Found inside – Page 54He came to Dardanelle , AR when he was around 19 years old and married Mary Jane Smith on 16 Sept. ... received one rubber tired black funeral caos . ... She changed the name to Cornwell Funeral Home and expanded by putting one in Canville , AR , which makes the Masters serving Yell County in the funeral home ... Found inside... Eyewitnesses saw black bodies laid out on the banks of the Arkansas River, ... The Stanley-McCune funeral home noted that some of the black bodies were ... Found inside – Page 263desire to guarantee a decent funeral was one of the strongest incentives for black support of the insurance industry . Since midcentury , one third ... The larger , more established funeral homes bury people of all social levels — high and low , rich and poor . Hence , at least 10 percent ... phase of their business . Kiblah , Arkansas ' s John Jay Jones organized one of the most extensive independent funeral ... Found inside – Page 236... the first black elected to such a position in Arkansas. She and her husband own two funeral homes, one in Marianna and one in Forest City. Found inside – Page 144She housed us, and the police kind of gave her a rough time, but she was an established black person in the community because often the white funeral home ... Found inside – Page 1727 in Harlem was destroyed by fire and another Black Muslim building in San Francisco was bombed. As a result, security concerns at Unity Funeral Home were ... This book features more than 150 shots Littlejohn captured over the course of his career. Found inside – Page 68Even if he could help me with the funeral homes that would have ... I called the numbers for twenty three Stinson's in the Arkansas area. Found inside – Page 24In 1900 Blacks had more than $500,000 invested in funeral homes alone. ... D.C.; Chicago; Omaha; Knoxville; Longview, Texas; and Philip County, Arkansas. Found inside – Page 11Two black-owned businesses in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the PK Miller Funeral Home and the College Grocery Store, paid for the cost of showing the game. Found inside – Page 514References : STATE OF NEW YORK 7261 - Funeral Service & Crematories BRADFORD MORTUARY 113 Grinstead St SE Camden , AR 71701 Tel : 870-836-9948 Contact : Clifford Bradford Business : Funeral home , insurance . Black ... Found inside – Page 61The average black funeral home handles approximately 50 bodies a year at a ... Ben Johnson in Natchitoches, La., A.R. Leak in Chicago, and A.A. Rayner in ... Found inside – Page 265He stayed at a motel, but the only accommodation she could find was at a black funeral home. When rioting broke out in the Watts area of Los Angeles in 1965 ... Found inside – Page 179"He was a traveling salesman for funeral-home supplies all over Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee. He had to be gone a lot, so he would never let me show him that I was afraid to stay home by myself. "I was afraid, though. We lived in one of ... Found insideA. R. Leak, founder of the A. R. Leak and Sons Funeral Home, a highly profitable enterprise that commanded great respect in the community. “Black people ... Found inside – Page 233The court noted that such testimony might be appropriate for a zoning hearing , but not for resolving an issue of nuisance.17 Predictions of future effects which the funeral home might have on the neighborhood are “ long - range and intangible ... Found inside – Page 105In December 1933, Arkansas's lieutenant governor, Lee Cazort, ... holds that a young man named John Black led a group who broke into the funeral home during ... Found inside – Page 85... black students entered SSC after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among them was Virginia Marks, daughter of a Magnolia funeral home director. Found inside – Page 106... the black community the opportunity to create businesses such as barbershops, funeral homes, restaurants, boardinghouses, and insurance agencies. Found inside – Page 141A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-hop Generation Natalie Hopkinson, ... The 36-year-old vice president of A. R. Leak and Sons Funeral Home is ... Found inside – Page 166... to Mississippi to help in his family's flourishing chain of funeral home businesses—Century Funeral Home—the state's largest black-owned business. Found insideHe loved to read, but not many books were available to African American ... the business of establishing funeral homes, a casket factory, and a theater. Found inside – Page 47How far along is the proposed Federal Trade Commission's regulations ! ar Mr. KRAEER . ... 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