Woman wants to memorialize unmarked African burial ground
CHRIS SUAREZ, Richmond Times-Dispatch
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This aerial photo shows 1305 North 5th Street, the site of an African burial ground, in Richmond , Va., on Saturday, May 1, 2021. (Daniel Sangib/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)Daniel Sangjib Min/AP
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Lenora McQueen came to Richmond four years ago to learn more about her fourth great-grandmother. That’s when she found out where she was buried in the city.
She knew freed and enslaved Black cemeteries aren’t usually well-maintained, but she expected to find some evidence of its past; perhaps a few headstones or grave shaft depressions in the ground.
February 17, 2021
Norman Nitschke, a leader in developing safety glass fabrication processes and standards, died on Feb. 14 at the age of 100 at his home in Perrysburg, Ohio. In his decades-long career in glass, Nitschke was instrumental in advancing glass fabrication technologies, in particular glass tempering for the automotive and architectural industries. He is listed as inventor or coinventor on over 40 glass industry patents.
Nitschke began his career at Sun Oil Co. and L.O.F Glass, before partnering with Harold McMaster in 1951. Their partnership provided engineering and executive management to several glass industry ventures. Their first company, Permaglass Inc., introduced and promoted tempered automotive glass, which is used in nearly all vehicles in the United States today. Permaglass Air Float furnaces were sold to several large international glass companies and to Chrysler and Ford Motor Co.
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