The impact of Michael Daley's deed of land to Olivia Carmichael in 1887 empowered this black woman and lifted her family for generations.

Frank and Doris Conic owned and operated Conic Beauty and Barber Supply Company at 615 North Farish Street in Jackson, Mississippi from 1950 to 1975. They were also civil rights icons in Jackson from the 1940’s through the 1970s. They displayed incredible courage on a daily basis in the face of Mississippi’s hardcore, entrenched racism.