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Barbara Hendricks was born Nov. 20, 1948, in Stephens, Ark., to Malvin and Della Mae Hendricks. As a child, Hendricks and her three siblings, Geneice, Malvin Jr. and Michael, spent a lot of time at church meetings and revivals all around Ouachita County since her father was a well-respected minister in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Birmingham Times 1871 –City of Birmingham founded; now the state’s most populous city, Birmingham was founded at the crossing of two rail lines near one of the world’s richest deposits of minerals. 1873 — Birmingham becomes seat of Jefferson County. –First Colored Baptist Church founded. —Birmingham particularly hard hit by cholera due to the lack of urban infrastructure and the poor housing conditions. At least 128 people died from cholera, which struck in the height of summer and persisted for several weeks. The outbreak caused about half of Birmingham’s 4,000 resident...
curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past The Evolution of Black Life in Little Dixie Published December 21st, 2020 at 3:38 PM In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school. Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly. A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the African American section of Parkville where they recently bought a home. ...