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Wright and her family have made national and international headlines resulting from a lawsuit filed against them by Bailey Point Investment LLC. The company is constructing a 147-unit neighborhood enveloping Wright’s Jonesville road parcel, which has been in her family since shortly after the Civil War. The Wright family suspects the lawsuit is intended to force them to sell due to financial strain, but a GoFundMe account has helped the family shoulder the burden of legal fees by raising $112,994. Irving’s $40,000 gift is the largest donation to the family thus far.
The Wheeler name comes from Joseph Wheeler, a Confederate general who hailed from Georgia and led cavalry for the South in the Civil War, but later went on to serve in the U.S. Army and Congress.
Juneteenth celebrates the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States dating back to June 19, 1865. On that day, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery on Jan. 1, 1863.
Internally, Bulls president and chief operating officer Michael Reinsdorf has introduced paid time off annually for Juneteenth, which celebrates Union forces, led by Major General Gordon Granger, arriving in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865 and proclaiming all slaves in the state free by executive decree. Though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it wasn't until the Union's victory in the Civil War that it was enforced in states once under Confederate control — Texas being the last. The Bulls also plan to feature paid time off for each future Election days.
U.S. 117 IS the mother road of Michael Jordan's past. It runs from Wilmington to Wilson. There have been Jordans living along that corridor since the Civil War. Al Edgerton, a longtime engineer in the North Carolina Department of Transportation and a grade school classmate of Jordan's, was part of a crew that resurfaced 117 less than a decade ago. The highway cuts through fields and little towns. "A lot of agricultural type equipment is running up and down that road," Edgerton says. "When you get around Wallace, where Mike's dad was from, that's an ag-type county. You have a lot of farm trucks and tractors, pulling trailers of tobacco."
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David Fizdale spoke out, and continues to speak out, against the presence of two statues in the city -- of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis and of Nathan Bedford Forrest, who amassed a personal fortune in the slave trade before the Civil War before becoming a general in the Confederate army, an early scion of post-Civil War Memphis and one of the first members of the Ku Klux Klan, rising to a position of authority in that odious organization.
Jorge Sierra: You might remember earlier this year I wrote an article about Alex Owumi, the player stuck in Libya during Civil War. http://cort.as/1GhP I asked Owumi about the death of Qaddafi today: "This is a historic day for the world and mostly for the Libyan people," he said. "They still have a long way to go to rebuild the country, but this is a great first step. It just shows how when a country comes together they can accomplish great things. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and can now celebrate this myself and thank God that this is all over."
Playing for a club in Benghazi, the city that became the rebel stronghold against longtime Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Owumi got caught in the middle of fighting between the oppositon and the Gadaffi forces and became a first-hand witness of the brutality of the Civil War, which included shootings at civilians and the burning alive of pro-Gaddafi mercenaries.
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