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- 811: Malcolm X
- ... name was Malcolm Little, however there were big things in store for this child. Born in Omaha, Nebraska. The seventh of eleven children born to Earl Little, an organizer for Marcus Garvey’s “back-to-Africa” movement (Compton’s encyclopedia online). At age six Malcolm’s father was murdered. As a result his mother later suffered a nervous breakdown, and the family was separated by welfare agencies (Compton’s encyclopedia online ...
- 812: Lena Horne
- ... her film career. Although the movies she stared in had an all African American cast, her presence helps push aside the stereotypical on-screen images of African Americans. Lena made history by becoming the first Africa American to tour with an all white band and also the first African American women to sign a long-term contract with a major film studio. She was also an accomplished jazz singer. Recording songs ...
- 813: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... 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 ...
- 814: Dwight D Eisenhower
- ... excelled at many staff assignments and served under the guidance of many great generals. After Pearl Harbor he was called to Washington for a war plans assignment. He commanded the allied forces landing in North Africa in November 1942. On D-Day, 1944, he was the supreme commander of the troops invading France. After the war he became President of Columbia University. In 1951 he took supreme command over the new ...
- 815: Charles Lindbergh
- ... appointed brigadier general in the United States Air Force reserve. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed him in 1954. After serving as the brigadier general Charles Lindbergh began to travel all over the world. He visited Africa and the Philippines and became fascinated with their cultures. In the 1960’s Lindbergh began to speak out for the conservation movement. He tried to save species such as the Humpback Whale and the Blue ...
- 816: Harriet Tubman
- ... person or even a country; it was the system known as slavery. It is known that at least two grandparents were captured by slave traders and brought to North America from the Slave Coast of Africa during the 18th century. Because slaves were not allowed to read and write, Tubman grew up illiterate. She left no letters or diaries that would later allow historians to piece together all the parts of ...
- 817: Langston Hughes
- ... with his mother and her husband. It was during his high school years that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University and travelled to Africa and Europe. He moved to Harlem, New York, in November 1924. Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University ...
- 818: Shel Silverstein
- ... every state, each puppy, boy and girl He wiped his mouth upon his sleeve and went to eat the world. He ate the Egypt pyramids and every church in Rome, And all the grass in Africa and all the ice in Nome. He ate each hill in green Brazil and then to make things worse He decided that for desert he'd eat the universe. He started with the moon and ...
- 819: Stalin
- ... mostly sound decisions. Stalin did not give the deserter any credit because he believed that Hitler would not be foolish enough to attack the Soviet Union when Britain was still fighting and the Battle for Africa waged on as well indeed no one else thought that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union either. Stalin did not send masses of troops and equipment to the border because he thought that he could ...
- 820: Prophet Muhammad
- ... Messenger of Allah with utmost sincerity, and supported him with every thing they had. They faithfully carried the message of Islam after the Prophet, and within ninety years the light of Islam reached Spain, North Africa, the Caucasus, northwest China and India. The message that Prophet Muhammad (s) worked so hard to convey from a small city in the middle of a barren desert, has now reached every corner of the ...
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