When Addie Mae Grimes was born on 19 September 1902, in Georgia, United States, her father, James William Grimes, was 30 and her mother, Mary Jane Broxton, was 24. She had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter with Clifford Gordon Rigsby. She lived in District 947, Randolph, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 26 March 1989, in Randolph, Georgia, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Graves, Terrell, Georgia, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
English: variant of Grim , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted occasionally in Ireland for Gormley and even Houlihan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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