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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
Richard FitzJohn | |
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 Arms of Richard FitzJohn. Quarterly, or and gules, a border vair.[1] | |
| Died | 1297 Gascony |
| Spouse | Emma |
| Father | John Fitzgeoffrey |
| Mother | Isabel Bigod |
Richard FitzJohn (died 1297) was an English nobleman who fought in Wales and Gascony and served as a judge in Ireland.
Fitz-John was the second son of John Fitzgeoffrey and Isabel Bigod.
Richard is known to have married Emma, whose parentage is currently unknown. He seems to have spent the early 1270s in Ireland, where he served for a time as a judge and acquired lands. He succeeded his elder brother John FitzJohn in 1275, and inherited substantial lands in England. Richard took part during King Edward I of England's great campaign in 1277 against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in Wales. In 1282 he served in a similar campaign in Wales, when Edward finally crushed Llywelyn.
He was summoned to proceed to Gascony with Edmund Crouchback in 1295 and was appointed Constable of Rockingham Castle. As Captain of Bourg in Gascony, the garrison was besieged by a French army under the command of Henry III de Sully. The town was in danger of starvation, before being relieved by Simon Mountagu. Richard later died in 1297 in Gascony. He died without issue, with his estates being inherited between his four sisters. His widow remarried Robert de Montalt, 1st Baron Montalt.
He was granted substantial estates by the Crown at Thorncastle in south County Dublin (modern-day Booterstown and Mount Merrion), Ireland, no doubt as a reward for his services to the Crown. The King regranted these lands to the Irish judge William le Deveneys two years after Sir Richard's death.
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FitzJohn was an American bus manufacturer in Muskegon, Michigan. The company was founded October 8, 1919, by Harry Alphonse FitzJohn, and built over 5,000 bus bodies, complete buses, stretchout sedans and passenger-carrying trailers before closing down in May 1958.
Pain fitzJohn (before 1100 – 10 July 1137) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and administrator, one of King Henry I of England's "new men", who owed their positions and wealth to the king. Pain's family originated in Normandy, but there is little to suggest that he had many ties there, and he appears to have spent most of his career in England and the Welsh Marches. A son of a minor nobleman, he rose through ability to become an important royal official during Henry's reign. In 1115, he was rewarded with marriage to an heiress, thereby gaining control of the town of Ludlow and its castle, which he augmented with further acquisitions. Although later medieval traditions described Pain as a chamberlain to King Henry, that position is not securely confirmed in contemporary records. He did hold other offices, however, including that of sheriff in two counties near the border between England and Wales. In his capacity as a royal justice, Pain also heard legal cases for the king throughout much of western England. After King Henry's death in 1135, Pain supported Henry's nephew, King Stephen, and was with the new king throughout 1136. In July 1137, Pain was ambushed by the Welsh and killed while leading a relief expedition to the garrison at Carmarthen. His heirs were his daughters, Cecily and Agnes. Cecily married the son of one of Pain's close associates, Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford. Pain was generous in his gifts of land to a number of monastic houses.
John FitzJohn (died 1275) was an English nobleman who was a leading baron during the Second Barons' War.
Richard FitzJohn (died 1297) was an English nobleman who fought in Wales and Gascony and served as a judge in Ireland.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.