Record #:

2778

Author(s):

Stewart, Alva

Abstract:

The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial State Historic Site in Sedalia is the first to honor a black person and the first to honor a woman. Brown founded Palmer Memorial Institute and led it for fifty years.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 9, Feb 1988, p24-27

Subject(s):

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961; African Americans--Education; African American teachers--Sedalia; Historic sites--Sedalia

Record #:

2790

Author(s):

Arthur, Billy

Abstract:

One of aviation's great early heroes was Belvin Maynard of Sampson County. An Army Air Service officer in World War I and a ministerial student at Wake Forest, he set many air records before his death in a plane crash in 1922.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 9, Feb 1988, p12-15, il, por

Subject(s):

Maynard, Belvin Womble, 1892-1922; Aeronautics--Records; Aeronautics--Biography; Air pilots