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- 1731: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... 6, his friendship with two white playmates was cut short by their parents. When he was 11 a white woman struck him and called him a "nigger." A bright student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to become a minister and at 18 was ordained in his fathers church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa ...
- 1732: Manuel Noriega
- ... Manuel Noriega was born in 1934 in Panama City, Panama. Noriega grew up very poor and could not afford any high level of education. Like most who could not afford schooling he attended a military college in Peru. His schooling in Peru would ultimately give him his start to gaining contacts, friends, and most importantly American connections. To understand Noriega s rise to power first you must understand the environment in ...
- 1733: Malcolm X 3
- ... independence, it would have to be taken forcefully, and if it escalated to this, if could cause the "mother's" death . (Perry 187) Malcolm's ability to adapt to his surroundings, let him rally a college campus one day and a group in the ghetto the next, his popularity increased because he was able to speak to his audiances, in a way which spoke to them. In the Nation of Islam ...
- 1734: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... he won civic rights and eventually independence for India s people. Mahatma was born Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1869 in Porbandar, India. He lived there until 1888, when he left to study law at University College in London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to practice law in Bombay with little success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in ...
- 1735: Minor White
- ... WWII (Encarta). Throughout his 68 years he taught thousands about the intricacies of photography, none more important then himself. White was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 9th, 1908. He lived there until he attended college in New York some years later. It was in New York and later Portland, Oregon that White taught himself about photography and its art representations. He went on to work with famous photographers such as ...
- 1736: Maya Angelou 3
- ... and Euro-Americans. Further along in their lives, Maya Angelou continued to work the same horrible, backbreaking, labors jobs that African Americans did at that time. Richard Rodriguez furthered his education by continuing on to college and a scholarship trip to England. Maya retained a grasp onto her culture, while Richard lost his even more. He was "..yearning for a Chicano past ", But could only get it through a museum. They ...
- 1737: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- ... had been founded by Martin Luther King, Jr. s maternal grandfather. King, Jr. was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18. King attended local segregated public schools, where he excelled. He entered nearby Morehouse College at age 15 and graduated with a bachelor s degree in sociology in 1948. After graduating with honors from Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania in 1951, he went to Boston University where he earned a ...
- 1738: Martin Luther
- ... The parliament wanted the colonist to pay for some imperial expenses. To do this, parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. This law made it illigal to puchase any paper, newspapers, customs documents, various licenses, college diplomas, and numerous legal forms for recovering debts, buying land, and making wills without a stamp bought buy the British. The law enabled the British not only to generate revenues, but censor all materials going ...
- 1739: Louis Pasteur 3
- Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dτle, a small town in France. He grew in a humble family and his father was a tanner. He graduated in 1840 from the College of Arts at Besancon and entered the prestigious Ecole Namale Supervieure, Paris, to work for his doctorate degree. He chose for his studies the then obscure science of crystallography, which was to have a great ...
- 1740: Life Of John Milton
- ... of civil and religious liberty. Milton is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare. Life Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, and educated at Saint Paul's School and Christ's College, University of Cambridge. He intended to become a clergyman in the Church of England, but growing dissatisfaction with the state of the Anglican clergy together with his own developing poetic interests led him to abandon ...
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