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Illinois Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell On April 28, 1941, Illinois Congressman Arthur Mitchell argued to the Supreme Court that African Americans were entitled to railroad accommodations equal to white passengers. Born to former slaves in Alabama in 1883, Mitchell attended the Tuskegee Institute and worked his way through school as a farmer and in the office of Booker T. Washington. He attended law school at Columbia University and Harvard before moving to Chicago, where he worked as a lawyer ...

Since at least 1988, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has maintained what they call an Infrastructure Report Card that highlights critical shortcomings in the nation’s public built environment.  The reasons for this are pretty obvious:  civil engineers and the construction industry in general live on the development and maintenance of infrastructure, and because so much of it is paid for by government funding, which in a democracy is supposedly under the control of the people,...

Every now and then, unbearable tragedy builds a foundation for great triumph. So it was from one such dreadful episode recounted here some months ago that ultimately a stage was set for a bright future to be fashioned by one of those most deeply impacted by the tragedy. The story starts with the derailment of the Norfolk & Western southbound Extra 2012 freight train. Pulling 75 cars, only five of which were loaded, the train left the tracks the middle of a hot for the season afternoon May 20, 1...

Weight: 146 lbs. Marks/Scars/Tattoos: tattoo on neck (spider right side); tattoo on r_arm (lord knows); tattoo on r_forearm (skulls/flames); tattoo on l_arm (tiffany); tattoo on l_arm (cross); tattoo on chest (rosary/mom); tattoo on l_arm (angel/jesus); tattoo on abdomen (noel); tattoo on back (cameron jr); tattoo on r_forearm (crossbones); tattoo on l_arm (dad rest in peace); tattoo on back (clown); tattoo on r_arm (3 skulls); tattoo on l_arm (virgin mary); mark on (no marks); piercing on l_e...

FreightWaves Classics: Railroads helped the U.S. expand and increased interstate commerce Americas first common carriers are still relevant A Union Pacific train heads to its next destination. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Early beginnings Railroads were first developed in Great Britain. The first railroads were horse-drawn wagons running on wooden and then iron tracks, or rails… Wooden railroads were also built in the American colonies and were built exclusively to transport freigh...

Shacked with heavy-handed regulation from the 19th century and subsidies to other modes of transportation, America’s railroads were failing.

Richard White John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1915. American liberals of the Gilded Age were suspicious of vast corporate wealth, which they saw as a major cause of poverty. / Library of Congress Speaking in New Haven in 1860, Abraham Lincoln told an audience, “I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flat-boat—just what might happen to any poor man’s son.” After his death, Lincoln’s personal trajectory from lo...

Suzanne Kaye, 59, said in a video she would use her "Second Amendment right to shoot your f------ a--" if FBI agents came to her home for questioning.

Reward: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of Mallie Monte Evans. Remarks: Evans may wear a moustache and full beard.  He was last seen in Los Angeles, California.  He has been known to visit Miami, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Mount Laurel, New Jersey.  Caution: Mallie Monte Evans and Elizabeth Sanchez are wanted for allegedly operating a multi-state prostitution operation.  Evan...

Scars and Marks NCIC Reward: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of Elizabeth Sanchez. Remarks: Sanchez was last seen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  She has been known to visit Miami, Florida; Dallas, Texas; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Mount Laurel, New Jersey.  Caution: Elizabeth Sanchez and Mallie Monte Evans are wanted for allegedly operating a multi-state prostitution operation.  Evans allegedly sex-...