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* 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician
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1955 and Blind
Sweet Home was the site of the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers ' Home from 1890 to 1955, but the home was moved to the grounds of the Schools for the Deaf and Blind in Little Rock from 1955-1963.
In 1955 uranium was discovered near Blind River.
Blind Alleys ( Tales from the Crypt # 46, February – March 1955 ), Major William Rogers ( Nigel Patrick ), the new director of a home for the blind, makes drastic financial cuts, reducing heat and rationing food for the residents, while he lives in luxury with Shane, his Belgian Malinois.
A special example of its use is the West German Audio Book Library for the Blind, founded in 1955.
" Blind Jim " Ivy was a campus fixture until his death in 1955, seven years before the school was integrated in 1962.
Davalos starred in East of Eden ( 1955 ) as James Dean's brother and portrayed the convict Blind Dick in Cool Hand Luke ( 1967 ).
1955 and Mississippi
* 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
* Knollenberg, Bernhard, " General Amherst and Germ Warfare ," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 41 ( 1954 – 1955 ), 489 – 494.
In August 1955, black teenager Emmett Till was brutally murdered after reportedly flirting with a young white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi.
On July 1, 1955, the University Medical Center opened in Jackson, Mississippi, as a four-year medical school.
In 1955, the University of Mississippi School of Medicine moved to Jackson where its curriculum was expanded to four years in the brand-new Medical Center.
In a speech given in Senatobia, Mississippi on August 12, 1955, he said: " On May 17, 1954, the Constitution of the United States was destroyed because of the Supreme Court's decision.
During the summer of 1955 there were junkets to Little Rock, Forrest City, Arkansas, Corinth and Tupelo, Mississippi.
Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.
Using the income derived from his legal fees, Barnett sought to try his hand at politics, unsuccessfully running twice for Governor of Mississippi, in 1951 and 1955.
When the Democrats regained control in the 84th Congress ( 1955 ), James O. Eastland of Mississippi became chairman, a position he held until the subcommittee was abolished in 1977.
Emmett Louis Till ( July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955 ) was an African-American boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with
* Juvenile fiction: Mississippi Trial, 1955 ( 2003 ) by Chris Crowe
Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee – Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.
He graduated from Winona High School, Winona, Mississippi ; received a bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1955, and a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio in 1962.
Winn-Lovett continued to grow by acquiring other chains, including Penney Stores in Mississippi, and Ballentine Stores and Eden Stores, both in South Carolina, all in 1955.
Kilgallen's father Jim was still a " Hearst star " in 1955 when at age 67 he traveled to Mississippi to cover the trial of two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till for the Hearst-owned International News Service.
He served as the head coach at Mississippi State University ( 1954 – 1955 ), the University of Washington ( 1956 ), and the University of Texas at Austin ( 1957 – 1976 ), compiling a career college football record of 184 – 60 – 5.
Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N / U. S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief ( Big Nichols Creek )/ Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi during the March 1955 floods.
He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B. B. A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D. D. S.
It moved its studios and license across the Mississippi River to St. Louis on April 9, 1955, keeping the base callsign " TVI " while flipping from " W " to " K ", thus KTVI.
Smith's murder was one of several racially motivated attacks in Mississippi during 1955.
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