In the 1920s it was the site where the Southern Tenant Farmers movement started that became a national outcry against the abusive discrimination of wealthy land owners against sharecroppers who were mostly African-American farmers.

* William Perkins, Abolitionist and wealthy post-Civil War African-American entrepreneur.

Famous New Orleanians buried in St. Louis # 1 include Etienne de Boré, wealthy pioneer of the sugar industry and the first mayor of New Orleans ; Homer Plessy, the plaintiff from the landmark 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision on civil rights ; and Ernest N. " Dutch " Morial, the first African-American mayor of New Orleans.

James Forten ( September 2, 1766 – March 4, 1842 ) was an African-American abolitionist and wealthy businessman.

In 1832, Purvis married Harriet Forten, daughter of wealthy African-American sailmaker and prominent abolitionists James and Charlotte Forten of Philadelphia.

By 1827, their father David Uwatie had become a wealthy planter, who held African-American slaves as laborers.

He donated freely to African-American charities in Chicago, asking the wealthy to follow his example.

It focused on African-American servants and their wealthy white employers in Mississippi prior to the civil rights era.

Elisha Marshall Pease ( January 3, 1812August 26, 1883 ) was a wealthy landowner, African-American slave owner, and Texas politician.

For instance, Wilberforce University, founded by Methodist and African Methodist Episcopal ( AME ) representatives in Ohio in 1856 for the education of African-American youth, was in its first years largely supported by wealthy southern planters who paid for the education of their mixed-race children.

Other competitors include teenage surfer sweethearts Jim Crandell ( Robert Carradine ) and Maryann ( Belinda Balaski ) driving Maryann's father's Chevrolet Corvette, middle-aged Terry McMillan in a Chevrolet Blazer, three sexy waitresses, Sandy ( Mary Woronov ), Ginny ( Glynn Rubin ) and Wendy ( Diane Lee Hart ) in a souped up van, arrogant German driver Wolfe Messer ( James Keach ) in a De Tomaso Pantera, preppy African-American Beutell ( Stanley Bennett Clay ) in a Lincoln Continental he has been hired by a wealthy elderly couple to transport to New York for them ( unaware that he is using it to enter the race ) and Buckman's best friend Zippo ( Archie Hahn ) in a Pontiac Trans Am identical to Coy's.

* Bernard is an African-American, who still pines for the wealthy white boy in the house, where his mother worked as a maid.

Paul Cuffee, a wealthy mixed-race New England shipowner and activist, was an early advocate of settling freed blacks in Africa.

Marcion was reportedly a wealthy shipowner, the son of a bishop of Sinope of Pontus, Asia Minor.

The son of Thomas Henry Buckle, a wealthy London merchant and shipowner, he was born at Lee in Kent.

Milligan was a wealthy West Indies merchant and shipowner, who returned to London having previously managed his family's Jamaica sugar plantations.

She married twice, first Dimitrios Yiannouzas and later the wealthy shipowner and captain Dimitrios Bouboulis, taking his surname.

Ioannis Vlachos (), better known as Daskalogiannis () (?- June 17, 1771 ) was a wealthy shipbuilder and shipowner who led a Cretan revolt against Ottoman rule in the 18th century.

His father, who was a wealthy shipowner, sent him to be educated abroad.

Nevertheless, he attempts to salvage the situation by proposing that Stavros marry a wealthy merchant's ( Paul Mann ) young daughter ( Linda Marsh ).

The young couple are new to the big city and, based on Paul's con, invites him to live with them until he gets everything sorted out with his wealthy father — who Paul tells them is Flan Kittredge.

) She sets her sights on her older, divorced employer, Porter ( Paul Douglas ), the wealthy owner of a statewide chain of department stores.

Buffalo remained a small town until the mid-19th century when it became a popular resort town for wealthy day-trippers from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.

He was a contemporary of Tacoma boomer Leonard Howarth and became wealthy in his activities with the same companies as Howarth — the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. and the Wilkeson Coal & Coke Co. That company mined coking coal in the town of Wilkeson, the town near Enumclaw that was named to honor Frank's and Sam's father.

Cutting marginal tax rates can also be perceived as primarily beneficial to the wealthy, which commentators such as Paul Krugman see as politically rather than economically motivated.

When the Paul Brothers, a pair of wealthy bodybuilders who wanted to get into the movies, offered Tarantino funding for his script Natural Born Killers on the condition he include a scene featuring them, he could not write it out of disgust, and asked Avary to write it as a favor.

Sir John Paul Getty KBE ( 7 September 1932 – 17 April 2003 ), born Eugene Paul Getty, was a wealthy American-born British philanthropist and book collector.

He played in the orchestra of the wealthy Russian Baron Paul von Derwies for a few years and, in 1880, was a soloist for a year in the orchestra of Eduard Strauss in Vienna.

The first Baron's grandfather, Paul Methuen, was the cousin and heir of the wealthy Sir Paul Methuen, a well-known politician, courtier, diplomat and patron of art and literature, who was the son of John Methuen ( c. 1650 – 1706 ), Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1697 and 1703 and ambassador to Portugal.

Alan mooches a ride from wealthy tourists Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm ( Paul Harvey and Genevieve Tobin ), but before they can depart, Duke Mantee ( Bogart ), a famous gangster fleeing a massive police pursuit, invades the diner with his gang and takes the entire group hostage.

*** J. Paul Getty, wealthy American industrialist and founder of Getty Oil

Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England on 17 May 1923, the fourth son of wealthy cutlery manufacturer, Alwyn Wild, and his wife Bessie.

When Paula introduces Sam to her parents they dispute their daughter's decision: they see Collins Hedgeworth ( Paul Linke ), the son of a wealthy family in the area, as her fiancée.

The house was built between 1746 and 1750 for the wealthy merchant and philanthropist Paul Fisher, by Isaac Ware, a nationally renowned architect and translator of Palladio's works.

Their father, Paul, was descended from a wealthy cotton weaving family.

Super Chicken features the title character ( voiced by Bill Scott ), a superhero ( who, in " real life ", is wealthy Henry Cabot Henhouse III ) with a lion sidekick named Fred ( voiced by Paul Frees ).

Max comes from a wealthy family, but has no interest in the privileged life, preferring instead to work with an elderly friend, Cedric ( voiced by Paul Eiding ), in his mechanic shop.

She is married to André Desmarais, president of the Montreal-based Power Corporation of Canada, and son of Paul Desmarais, a wealthy businessman.

In the autumn of 1876 he joined his friend Paul Rée in Sorrento, at the home of a wealthy patron of the arts, Malwida von Meysenbug, and began work on Human, All Too Human.

Peter Colt ( Paul Bettany ), an English professional Tennis Player in his thirties whose ranking has slipped from 11th to 119th in the world, considers he never really had to fight for anything as his wealthy but not close family easily put him through studies and allowed him to pursue his Tennis ambitions, he bravely exchanges jokes with his German sparring partner Dieter Prohl ( Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ), who is in a similar position.

Once wealthy from trade, the region became lost to modern history and was thought to be only a figment of mythical tales.

Once wealthy from trade, the region became lost to modern history and was thought to be only a figment of mythical tales.

He commanded the largest army, and ruled the largest and most wealthy kingdom of Europe, a kingdom which was the European centre of arts and intellectual thought ( La Sorbonne ) at the time.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Vanaheimr are described as having sent to Asgard their best men: Njörðr — described as wealthy — and his son Freyr in exchange for Asaland's Hœnir — described here as large, handsome, and thought of by the people of Vanaheimr well suited to be a chieftain.

Although Coronado's exact route across the plains is uncertain and has been widely disputed, he and his men are thought to have camped near the present location of Lyons on their quest for Quivira, a Native American place which Indians to the southwest had told them was fabulously wealthy in gold.

The concept of hookah is thought to have originated In India, once the province of the wealthy, it was tremendously popular especially during Mughal rule.

In addition, Salarino's reference to " my wealthy Andrew docked in sand " is thought to refer to the San Andréas, a Spanish merchant vessel that ran aground in Essex in June 1596.

Some sources say he was a mercenary, others thought he was a British government spy, and others that he was independently wealthy and traveling for diversion.

Despite the Catholic-Polish family name with which she is associated, her affiliation with the Polish Home Army, and her connection with the Catholic rite while living in Quebec, her father, a wealthy industrialist, is thought to have been killed in a concentration camp during the war.

Free thought, skepticism, deism or indifference to religion were characteristic of the wealthy planters and land speculators, as newcomers were far more interested in seeking riches in this world than in the next.

In the period of post World War II prosperity, rising standards of living and land values caused Toorak to became highly sought after by a new generation of the wealthy, thought by some to be social climbers and Nouveau riche.

When a wealthy female conductor spent a few weeks in Finland, and was daily visiting both the Helsinki orchestras and their offices to see whether she could be thought of as a guest conductor.

It is thought that a local public house, the Traveller's Rest, can trace its origins to the 17th century whilst the Jubilee Hotel is a listed building which once provided a resting place for wealthy Victorians and their horses.

Nestor Makhno's anarchist army generally targeted Mennonites because they were thought of as " Kulaks " and an entity generally more advanced and wealthy than the surrounding Ukrainian peasants.

The son of a wealthy lawyer in Bath, Bayly intended to become an attorney like his father, but he changed his mind and thought of entering the church, but he abandoned this idea also and gave himself to writing for the stage and the periodical press.

Loudon thought that public improvements should be undertaken in a democratic fashion and in a comprehensive and reasonable manner, not sporadically by the benevolence of the wealthy.

Although police were skeptical, his expenses were paid by a wealthy businessman interested in the case, and public pressure was such that Croiset's views were thought to be worthy of consideration.

Both the government and wealthy candidates are accused of buying votes, and it is widely thought that the overall effect is to help pro-government candidates.

Christian Ross owned a large house and was thought to be wealthy, but was actually heavily in debt, due to the stock market crash of 1873, and could not afford such an amount.

Seduced by the thought of easy money from wealthy clients rather than the principles he started out with, Manson becomes involved with pampered private patients and fashionable surgeons and drifts away from his wife.

He was thought to have been on bad terms with Harry Oakes, due to de Marigny's playboy manners and lack of a meaningful career, the fact that he had been married twice before for short periods to wealthy women, and because he had not asked Oakes's permission to marry Nancy.

All Saints Church at Highbrook was paid for by two wealthy local sisters who thought that church attendance among the hamlet's residence was being hampered by the long distance they had to travel to St Margaret's Church.

Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this has never been proven.