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Hace 5 días · Ida B. Wells-Barnett, American journalist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She later was active in promoting justice for African Americans and founded (1910) what was possibly the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club.
- Walter White
Walter White (born July 1, 1893, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died...
- Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins (born Aug. 30, 1901, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died...
- Mary White Ovington
Mary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865, Brooklyn, N.Y.,...
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (C&O), American railroad...
- IDA B. Wells-Barnett
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of...
- Walter White
Hace 2 días · African American parents, educators, and authors have long cared about, discussed, and written literature for African American children, despite various barriers to this genre of literary production. 1 In her 1922 essay “Negro Literature for Negro Pupils,” author, editor, activist, and educator Alice Dunbar-Nelson discussed the importance of African American children’s literature.
Hace 2 días · Summary. Narrative of Sojourner Truth, by Sojourner Truth, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
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Hace 4 días · Brigham Young was an American religious leader, second president of the Mormon church, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West. A carpenter, joiner, painter, and glazier, Young settled in 1829 at Mendon, New York, near where the Book of Mormon was published.
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Hace 4 días · Jesse Owens was an American track-and-field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. His Olympic victories were a blow to Adolf Hitler’s intention to use the Games to demonstrate Aryan superiority. Learn more about Owens’s life and accomplishments in this article.
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- Jesse Owens was an American athlete. He is best remembered for his performance at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won gold medals in the long ju...
- Jesse Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. He was the 10th and final child of two sharecroppers; his grandparents had been s...
- After the Olympics ended, stories claiming that Jesse Owens had been snubbed by Adolf Hitler circulated widely. While it is true that Hitler did no...
- Jesse Owens struggled to find work after the Olympics. He raced against horses for money and worked as a gas station attendant and a playground jan...
- A heavy smoker, Jesse Owens died of lung cancer on March 31, 1980, in Tucson, Arizona. He was 66. Four years after his death, a street in Berlin wa...
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Hace 2 días · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
