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- 1161: Martin Luther King
- ... marches, but none of them matched his famous march in Washington. He gave a speech that showed bigotry in the government. Now, just 20 years later, our country is changing, and helping to change South Africa. The key to all this success was Martin Luther King Jr. who showed us that one man, nonviolently, could make a difference. Most of all he made us realize that all men are created equal ...
- 1162: Malcolm X
- ... of the Black Muslims. After a pilgrimage to Mecca, he announced (1964) that he had become an orthodox Muslim and founded the rival Organization for Afro-American Unity. His travel in the Middle East and Africa gave him a more optimistic view regarding potential brotherhood between black and white Americans; he no longer preached racial separation, but rather a socialist revolution. His career ended abruptly when he was shot and killed ...
- 1163: Herbert Hoover
- ... Hoover began working in California mines as an ordinary laborer, but he soon obtained a position in Australia directing a new gold-mining venture. During the next two decades he traveled through much of Asia, Africa, and Europe as a mining entrepreneur, earning a considerable fortune. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 he was in London. Hoover, who as a Quaker passionately believed in peace, was appalled ...
- 1164: Sir Wilfrid Laurier of Canada
- ... Manitoba school question by the Laurier-Greenway agreement. This agreement had everything the Catholics wanted and the issue was put to a close. In October 1899 England had declared war against the Boers in South Africa. Laurier did not want to send troops because this issue only dealt with British interests. As it turned out Laurier had to send troops but he faced a dilemma because the french people did not ...
- 1165: Carl Gustav Jung
- ... Freud, Jung had a 2 year period of non- productivity, but then he came out with his "Psychological Types," a famous work. He went on several trips to learn about primitive societies and archetypes to Africa, New Mexico to study Pueblo Indians, and to India and Ceylon to study eastern philosophy. He studied religious and occult beliefs like I Ching, a Chinese method of fortune telling. Alchemy was also one of ...
- 1166: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... the Portsmouth Conference. In 1909 after he secured Taft's nomination he left the office. After he left the office he traveled all over the world. He took a ten month hunting trip to North Africa,and made a grand tour of Europe visiting all of the Royal people. After hearing from of his friends he decided to come back to America and go back into politics. The Republican Party already ...
- 1167: Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- ... Canada's proper responsibilities to Britain in the future. On the other hand, he continued to resist pressures to tie the bonds of empire still more tightly during the years after the victory in South Africa. Seeds of distrust concerning his policies were thus sown on both sides of the wall that was rising between Canadians of French and of English descent. Another foreign policy issue arose as naval competition increased ...
- 1168: Richard Marcinko
- ... He was then named Commanding Officer of Seal Team Six, which he served as for three years. This elite unit has went on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea, Africa, and beyond. Then Marcinko was given orders to create Red Cell. Red Cell's job was to check the security of the military's top facilities and installations. It was made up of the twelve ...
- 1169: Mohandas Gandhi
- ... bring about peace. Religious violence soon declined in India and Pakistan, and the teachings of Gandhi came to inspire nonviolent movements elsewhere. Within fifty five years of his self awakening after being evicted from South Africa train compartment, Gandhi managed to evict the British Empire from India.
- 1170: Jesse Jackson: a Brief Biography
- ... people. In one speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of "Nazis, slave owners, and segregationists." Another time he publicly remarked, "In Germany, they call what's going on "fascism". In South Africa they call it "racism". Here in America we call it conservatism." He even once called New York City, "Hyme-town." Hearing that remark coming from a civil rights leader shocked everybody, and cost him millions ...
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