Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris

Curtis W. Harris

Living place: Virginia

Birthday: 1-7-1924 (100 years old)

Population of US 1924: 114,109,000

Global rank: #10970

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Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris profile

Who is Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris?
Minister, civil rights activist, and former president of the Virginia Christian Leadership Conference chapter of the South.
He was a Baptist minister in several Virginia counties before retiring from the ministry in 2007. He also served as the first African-American mayor of Hopewell, Virginia.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He became president of the Hopewell, Virginia chapter of the NAACP in 1950. In 1960, he organized a sit-in at a racist pharmacy and was arrested.

Family life info

He was born in Dendron, Virginia.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris?
He served on the National Board of Directors of the SCLC while Martin Luther King, Jr. is the president of the organization. Harris and King have also coordinated organizations such as groundbreaking civil rights initiatives such as Selma to the Montgomery March.

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When was Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris born?
Curtis W. Harris birthday 1-7-1924 (at the age of 100).
Where is Civil rights leader Curtis W. Harris's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Curtis W. Harris was born in Virginia, . is a Civil rights leader, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Curtis W. Harris's global rank is 10970 and whose rank is 9 in list of famous Civil rights leader. Population of US in 1924 is about 114,109,000 persons.
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Events in 1924 and 1-7

Events in US in the birth year of Curtis W. Harris

  • New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM).
  • Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall and oilmen Harry Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny are charged with conspiracy and bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal, involving fraudulent leases of naval oil reserves. In 1931, Fall is sentenced to year in prison; Doheny and Sinclair acquitted of bribery.
  • Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of death sentence.

Birthday Curtis W. Harris (1-7) in history

  • Day 1-7 year 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began.
  • Day 1-7 year 1867: Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British North America Act.
  • Day 1-7 year 1898: Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders fought the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.
  • Day 1-7 year 1943: Income tax withholding began in the United States.
  • Day 1-7 year 1962: Burundi and Rwanda achieved independence.
  • Day 1-7 year 1963: The U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes.
  • Day 1-7 year 1968: The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
  • Day 1-7 year 1994: Yasir Arafat returned to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile.
  • Day 1-7 year 1997: After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.
  • Day 1-7 year 2000: Vermont's civil unions law went into effect.
  • Day 1-7 year 2013: Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union.
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