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Margaret Truman, left, and her mother look over the shoulder of Harry S. Truman in Kansas City on Nov. 7, 1944, as he makes a chart of election returns. The Truman Library said Margaret who died on Jan. 29, 2008, at age 83, was one of the eldest surviving children of an American president, second only to John Eisenhower, the son of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Photo: AP Photo)
Billy Smith II Chronicle
A Look Back: Quanell X, in a World War II rail car Monday, Jan
28, 2008, was welcomed by the Holocaust Museum Houston to
take a tour.
Quanell X Seeks To Make Amends!
Queen Elizabeth II
visits with a group of local school children in Virginia's State Capitol building, inside the old Senate chamber in Richmond, Va., Thursday, May 3, 2007. Queen Elizabeth II arrived Thursday for the commemoration of Jamestown's 400th anniversary and praised the cultural changes that have occurred since she last visited America's first permanent English settlement 50 years ago. (AP Photo/Matthew Cavanaugh, Pool)
Queen Elizabeth will visit visit the Jamestown Settlement living history museum today as well as the Historic Jamestown archaeological dig site, accompanied by Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne. Cheney also is expected to attend a lunch in the queen's honor in Williamsburg. The queen is then scheduled to visit the College of William and Mary before leaving for Kentucky, where she is to watch the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. She's also expected to visit Washington, D.C., and attend a state dinner with President Bush before leaving on Tuesday.
The royal couple arrived in the United States on Thursday and stopped first in Virginia's capital city of Richmond, where the queen spoke to the Virginia General Assembly. She praised the cultural changes that have occurred since her last visit to Jamestown, when the anniversary was an all-white affair in a state with a government in open defiance of a 1954 Supreme Court order to desegregate public schools. She also mentioned the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, where a gunman killed 32 people and then himself. "My heart goes out to the students, friends and families of those killed and to the many others who have been affected," the queen said. "On behalf of the people of the United Kingdom, I extend my deepest sympathies at this time of such grief and sorrow."
Oliver W. Hill
Lawyer and Civil Rights Leader
Afterward, she met briefly with students and faculty from Virginia Tech, including three who were wounded, and with 100-year-old Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights attorney whose litigation helped bring about that 1954 desegregation decision.
Then the queen was off to Virginia's restored 18th-century capital. She arrived in Colonial Williamsburg and waved a gloved hand at the several thousand people who lined Duke of Gloucester Street despite a drizzle to watch the carriage take her past homes, stores and taverns to her hotel.
Associated Press Writers Bob Lewis and Larry O'Dell in Richmond contributed to this report.
Oliver W. Hill, 100, Civil Rights Lawyer, Is Dead
Oliver W. Hill
Lawyer and Civil Rights Leader
May 1, 1907 - August 5, 2007
RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 5, 2007 (AP) — Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the forefront of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died Sunday at his home here. He was 100.
Mr. Hill’s death was reported by a family friend, Joseph Morrissey.
In 1954, Mr. Hill was involved in the series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
“He was among the vanguard in seeking equal opportunity for all individuals, and he was steadfast in his commitment to effect change. He will be missed,” said L. Douglas Wilder, who in 1989 became the nation’s first elected black governor and was a confidant of Mr. Hill’s. Mr. Wilder is now the mayor of Richmond.
In 1940, Mr. Hill won his first civil rights case in Virginia, one that required equal pay for black and white teachers. Eight years later, he was the first black elected to the Richmond City Council since Reconstruction.
A lawsuit argued by Mr. Hill in 1951 on behalf of students protesting deplorable conditions at their high school for blacks in Farmville became one of five cases decided under Brown.
Mr. Hill never lost sight of the importance of the 1954 ruling. Without it, he said this year in an interview in The Richmond Times-Dispatch, he doubted that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “would have gotten to first base.”
Mr. Hill was born May 1, 1907, and his father left when Mr. Hill was an infant. His mother remarried, and Mr. Hill took the name of his stepfather. He moved with his family to Roanoke, Va., where he spent much of his childhood.
Later, his family moved to Washington, where he finished high school. He graduated second in his class from Howard University’s law school in 1933. The top law graduate that year was his friend Thurgood Marshall.
Mr. Marshall and Mr. Hill were part of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund team that fought the desegregation case to the Supreme Court. They remained close friends after Mr. Marshall became the court’s first black justice.
Though blind and in a wheelchair in recent years, Mr. Hill remained active in social and civil rights causes and in the operations of his law firm until 1998. The next year, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from President Bill Clinton.
Arthur Winston
...retires after 76
years from
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at 100 years of age...
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Randy is released from the hospital...on Thursday, March 30, 2006
"Finding the Way Back to Mayberry"
In Celebration of Bob Hope...
1903 - 2003
Thank YOU for the memories!
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IN
MEMORY OF JAMES BYRD, JR.
June 7, 1998 to June 7, 2008
Ten Years After...
May
2, 1949 to June 7, 1998
Veterans Day Message From
The
Secretary Of The Navy
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt once said, "Those who have long enjoyed
such privileges as we enjoy, forget in time that men have died to
win them."
His words are a caution to all of us to never forget the lives
that were given and the years of service rendered to protect the
freedom we hold dear.
This Veterans Day adds new meaning to Roosevelt's wisdom. We are
already at war against terrorism, and our armed forces may be
called to action anywhere and at any time that freedom and human
dignity are threatened.
Our history is rich with military men and women who fought for
our American way of life. They knew then what we know now.
Americans don't fight for land, money or religion. But we will
fight to protect the principles of freedom - freedom of religion,
freedom of the press, and the freedom from oppression. Today, all
veterans are monuments to those freedoms.
As we honor our veterans, let us also honor all who serve today
because you will be our veterans of tomorrow. You protect our
nation's interests but, more importantly, you protect our hopes
and dreams. You make us proud while you make us safe.
On November 11th, share these lessons with your family, friends
and neighbors so all will see this day as much more than a
holiday. Let's help them appreciate the incredible gift Americans
are given when one of our brave men and women takes an oath to
protect and defend our country.
To all of you who serve and have served, I thank you. Never
underestimate what you mean to America. For that, a grateful
nation also thanks you. I salute you on Veterans Day. God bless
America.
-- Gordon England
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