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  2. Murders of Julie and Robin Kerry - Wikipedia

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    The rapes and murders of Julie and Robin Kerry occurred on April 5, 1991, on the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. The two sisters were raped and then murdered by a group of four males, who also attempted to murder the sisters' cousin. On December 9, 1992, Marlin A. Gray (September 29, 1967 – October 26 ...

  3. Rape crisis centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Rape crisis centers in the United States, usually capitalized as Rape Crisis Center and often abbreviated as RCC, are community-based organizations affiliated with the anti-rape movement in the U.S. Rape crisis centers in other countries offer similar services, but have different histories and vary in their organizational structure.

  4. History of slavery in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    Land in Mississippi was river bottomland rich in organic matter— "the Mississippi and Yazoo, the Tombigbee, Big Black, and the Pearl covered an area of over one-sixth of the entire state and offered unrivalled soil" [5] —and this land was primarily used to grow the highly valuable cash crop cotton produced with the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved American laborers of African ...

  5. Buttigieg tours Mississippi civil rights site and says ... - AOL

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    Buttigieg spent Thursday and Friday in Mississippi, his first trip to the state, to promote projects that are receiving money from a 2021 federal infrastructure act. One is a planned $20 million ...

  6. Rape Crisis Center honors former executive director with new ...

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  7. National Sexual Violence Resource Center - Wikipedia

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    The National Sexual Violence Resource Center ( NSVRC) is an American nonprofit organization that addresses the causes and impact of sexual violence through collaboration, prevention, and resources. [1] Working in collaboration with state and territory sexual assault coalitions, representatives from underserved populations, the Centers for ...

  8. Golf tournament nets funds for Midland Rape Crisis and ...

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    The ceremonial check presented Monday was for $225,000. MRCCAC Development Director Skylar White said they initially started in 1979 as the Rape Crisis Center and in 1996 they added the Children's ...

  9. Mississippi River - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi River[b]is the primary riverand second-longest riverof the largest drainage basin in the United States. [c][15][16]From its traditional source of Lake Itascain northern Minnesota, it flows generally south for 2,340 miles (3,766 km)[16]to the Mississippi River Deltain the Gulf of Mexico.