About 1968

In the wake of the Mississippi "Freedom Summer" of 1964 and similar drives to register black voters in other Southern states, many African Americans suffered the loss of their jobs and homes as retaliation ...

Marschall, Nicola

1859

The son of a wealthy tobacco merchant, Nicola Marschall left Germany for the United States in 1849, arriving in New Orleans and settling at Mobile. Shortly thereafter, Marschall moved to Marion, Alabama, ...