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A series of services will be held next week for Former Florida A&M University President Frederick S. Humphries, who died in Orlando Thursday. He was 85.
A student vigil, hosted by the the FAMU Student Government Association, will take place July 8 at at 8 p.m. at the universities eternal flame.
On Friday July 10, Humphries will lie in state for public viewing from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Lee Hall Auditorium, 1601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, according to a FAMU press release.
There will be a public wake beginning at 6 p.m. and an hour later the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity will host an omega service.
Rolling Stone That Time Johnny Cash Was Arrested in Starkville, Mississippi
Wild night that inspired Cash’s “Starkville City Jail” is commemorated with a marker on the Mississippi Country Music Trail
By Jan Olofsson/Redferns/Getty Images
Before “country music outlaw” became just another outfit for would-be badasses to try on, Johnny Cash made it a job description. But among the seven arrests he accrued during his most tumultuous years, from the late 1950s to 1967, none was quite like the time he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi while picking flowers on May 11th, 1965.
The way the Man in Black told the story of his mishap in the song “Starkville City Jail,” from his 1969 live album