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  2. Freedom Suits Memorial - Wikipedia

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    St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Coordinates. 38°37′39″N 90°11′48″W. /  38.62750°N 90.19667°W  / 38.62750; -90.19667. The Freedom Suits Memorial is a 14-foot-tall (4.3 m) bronze sculpture [1] in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. [2] Hundreds of people attended the ceremony. [3] It commemorates the freedom suits which were lawsuits filed ...

  3. Frankie Muse Freeman - Wikipedia

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    Bronze Statue of Frankie Muse Freeman in Downtown St. Louis. Marie Frankie Muse Freeman (née Muse; November 24, 1916 – January 12, 2018) was an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964–79), a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination.

  4. Dred Scott - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Dred Scott ( c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". The Scotts claimed that they should be ...

  5. Freedom suit - Wikipedia

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    Edward Bates was a private practice attorney in St. Louis who later was appointed to serve as the United States Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. Although a slaveholder, Bates represented slaves in some freedom suits in St. Louis, including the case of the freed slave Polly Berry's daughter, who was still enslaved. After gaining ...

  6. United States District Court for the Eastern District of ...

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    John D. Jordan. moed.uscourts.gov. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (in case citations, E.D. Mo.) is a trial level federal district court based in St. Louis, Missouri, with jurisdiction over fifty counties in the eastern half of Missouri. The court is one of ninety-four district-level courts which make up ...

  7. Tishaura Jones - Wikipedia

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    Tishaura Oneda Jones (/ t ɪ ʃ ɑː r ʌ / tish-ARE-ə; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri since April 2021. A member of the Missouri Democratic Party, Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the Missouri House of Representatives; and as Treasurer of the City of St. Louis from 2013 to 2021.

  8. The St. Louis American - Wikipedia

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    The St. Louis American. The St. Louis American is a weekly newspaper serving the African-American community of St. Louis, Missouri. The first issue appeared in March 1928. In 1930, the newspaper started a "Buy Where You Can Work" campaign. Donald Suggs along with two other investors purchased majority shares in the newspaper in 1981, and in ...

  9. Gene Kranz - Wikipedia

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    Gene Kranz. Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA 's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of ...

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