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- 791: Malcolm X 4
- ... man is not the devil and that only some white men treat black men with no respect and dignity. This pilgrimage really turned his life around the right way. Malcolm later visited other countries including Africa and soon begins preaching his new message about black and white relations. I think that The Autobiography of Malcolm X gives a lot of insight to how a black man can easily go in the ...
- 792: Malcolm X 2
- ... in 1925. His father was a Baptist minister and an outspoken follower of Marcus Garvey, the Black Nationalist leader of the 1920s who preached that all blacks should leave the US and go back to Africa. While Malcolm's father was away and Malcolm's mother was pregnant with Malcolm, a group of KKK members came to their house and told Mrs. Little to send out her husband. She came out ...
- 793: Malcolm X
- ... black nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy city of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Based on this trip, and other travels to Africa and Europe, he renounced his previous teaching that all whites are evil, and he began advocating racial solidarity, and adopted the Arabic name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. On February 21, 1965, while addressing an ...
- 794: Jimi Hendrix
- ... him was the almost epic-length blues number Voodoo Chile. Voodoo Chile is Hendrix statement of his own heritage, his refusal to deny himself and, as he said it, dedicated to our friends from West Africa (Fairchild, Electric Ladyland 22). Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray said this of Voodoo Chile in his book Crosstown Traffic: The relationship between the blues and Voodoo as a hold-over from West African religious and ...
- 795: Hitler 2
- ... launched World War II in 1939. Making anti-Semitism a keystone of his propaganda and policies, he built the Nazi party into a mass movement. For a time he dominated most of Europe and North Africa. He caused the slaughter of millions of Jews and other people whom he considered inferior. Early Years - Hitler was born in Braunau , Austria, the son of a minor customs official and a peasant girl. A ...
- 796: History Of Womans Education
- ... financially. Graduates from Mount Holyoke carried Mary's words and teachings and opened their own schools all over America and abroad. Some schools were in tents, some women went as far as Japan and South Africa to spread Mary's ideas. When Mount Holyoke opened in 1837 neither Mary Lyon, nor her students could have envisioned that one hundred and sixty years later the school would enroll more than two thousand ...
- 797: Hannibal 2
- ... to his brother Hasdrubal. He then led his troops north toward the Pyrenees Mountains and began one of the most famous journeys in history (Green 24). Hannibal's army included Libyans and Numidians from North Africa, Iberians and Celtiberians from Spain, and Gauls from Spain, France, and Italy.There were ninety thousand foot soldiers, twelve thousand horsemen, and several dozen war elephants. Hannibal used the elephants to break infantry lines and ...
- 798: Francesco Petrarch
- ... age of 70 years from an attack sure to be a stroke. Before his death, Petrarch wrote many masterpieces some of which were never finished. These two of these were, an epic of Scipio called Africa and a collection of classical heros titled De viris illustribus. Throughout his life he wrote many book, sonnets, Italian lyrics and, poetry. His inspirations may have come from the classical writers, Cicero, Virgo but also ...
- 799: Ernest Hemingway 3
- ... and we must go on. At age 31 he wrote Death in the Afternoon, about bullfighting in his beloved Spain. Ernest was a restless man; he traveled all over the United States, Europe, Cuba and Africa. At the age of 37 Ernest met the woman who would be his third wife; Martha Gellhorn, a writer like himself. He went to Spain, he said, to become an "antiwar correspondent", and found that ...
- 800: Ernest Hemingway
- ... In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. The last years of his life were hard. He had several bad relationships with several women. He was married four times. He was on a trip to Africa on a Safari when he was in two plane crashes. He and his wife Mary received severe injuries. Hemingway suffered a concussion, damaged his kidney, liver and spleen, and had burns all over. He would ...
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