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Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman, and only the second woman, to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach because she never missed a day of work, even showing up during heavy snow by wearing snowshoes and carrying the mail packs on her back.Fields stood six feet tall, and was a woman who commanded attention. Legend has it she wore a 38 Smith & Weston strapped under her apron and could hit anything within 50 paces.
After quitting the mail route in 1901, Fields opened her own laundry and restaurant with the help of Mother Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio.

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We’re stepping into our era of yes. Yes to progress. Yes to more opportunity. Yes to a stronger Memphis. Here’s why:

Yes to growth

We’re stepping into our era of yes. Yes to progress. Yes to more opportunity. Yes to a stronger Memphis. Here’s why:

"Jesus prophesied that when we see the fulfillment of the prophecy of this time, then we should know, by such acts of the people–strange actions that we have never witnessed before–carried on by the people–“Know that it (the end) is near, even at the doors.”

The Bible prophesies in Daniel and Matthew, saying that this is a time that man has never seen before, and man will never see such time again, after this time!

Strange happenings–the prophecies of Jesus said that parents will be against children, and children will be against parents. Do you not see these things being fulfilled today, right in our eyes?"--The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad

https://new.finalcall.com/2025/03/03/when-ye-shall-see-all-these-things/