Kitzman, who served as a district judge before his stint as district attorney, resigned later that year to care for his wife who was terminally ill, according to his obituary; he died last month. Kunta Kinteh & His Descendants Were Real Heres The Proof & Video of Their Graves ~ Haki Kweli Shakur, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/28/roots-program-catches-hold-in-virginia-home/efc04e56-baec-4567-9824-d86c177a527c/?utm_term=.51ae314f6063, The Existing Cause of Biafra and its Right to Self-determination, The African Letters Henry McNeal Turner, 1834-1915, Communist Angelo Herndon 1932 arrested for allege insurrection black belt Nation. In the 1970s, the county began targeting Black students in a more tailored fashion. They were far better educated than average men today, the judge said. [4] The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1971. The founder of this property was born in 1796 in England. By the close of the 18th century, Harman Blennerhassett had constructed a mansion on his plantation on Blennerhassett Island and Moses Shepherd had built Shepherd Hall near Wheeling, both in the Ohio River valley. Nov. 20 In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Out in a rural stretch of Texas northwest of Houston, Waller County was born of plantations, cotton fields and slavery. I believe this is the John Waller that was appointed Sheriff of King & queen County, VA in 1699. They asked a federal judge to order the county to set up an early voting site on campus that would offer weekend hours. Its an untattered line from pre-1960 to the present to what they tried to do to these students at this institution and this Black city in a majority white, older county, said Leah Aden, the deputy director of litigation for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the students. Jesse and Percilla deeded an acre of land to the Methodist Church on April 21 1874 . //