Brief Life History of Floyd Norman
When Floyd Norman Brewer Jr. was born on 5 April 1952, his father, Floyd Norman Brewer, was 39 and his mother, Mary Beatrice Riggle, was 32. He died on 29 October 1997, in Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
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- Floyd Norman Brewer, "Find A Grave Index"
- F N Brewer Jr, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
1964 · The Freedom Summer Murders
In what is called the Freedom Summer Murders, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, three civil rights workers, were shot in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They were campaigning to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. It was determined that the murderers were members of the KKK and Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department.
1965 · The Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act prohibits racial discrimination in voting. The Act secured the right to vote for minorities in the South. It also prohibits local governments from making any voting law that results in discrimination against any kind of minorities.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewere ‘brewer’ (an agent derivative of Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Compare Brewster .
English (of Norman origin): Anglicized form of French Bruyère (see Bruyere ), a habitational name from a place so called in Calvados, France, from Old French bruiere ‘heath’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Dutch Brouwer , German Brauer or Breuer , etc., all occupational names meaning ‘brewer’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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