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Hall Of Fame Pete Rose
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Luther King Jr Martin Luther King
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Martin Luther King Lincoln Memorial
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749 wordsWilliam T. Sherman SHERMAN, William Tecumseh (1820 - 91). Ranked second only to General Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest Northern commander in the American Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a master of modern warfare. Like Grant, Sherman was born in Ohio when it was a frontier state. He was named Tecumseh for the Shawnee Indian chief who had terrorized that region a few years earlier. Sherman was born on Feb. 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio. His father died when he was 9 years old. Most o...
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479 wordsCowboys Release Deion Sanders IRVING, Texas (Reuters) The Dallas Cowboys released flashy star cornerback Deion Sanders Friday but did not rule out the possibility of re-signing him to a restructured contract. The announcement that the dynamic cornerback and kick returner had been cut was posted on the teams web site and was not unexpected as the Cowboys needed to free up room under the salary cap. Deion was a great player for us. He was a major contributor in our Super Bowl team and he has been ...
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Booker T Washington W E B Dubois
1,737 wordsThe struggle for Discrimination Discrimination The struggle for social and economic equality of Black people in America has been long and slow. It is sometimes amazing that any progress has been made in the racial equality arena at all; every tentative step forward seems to be diluted by losses elsewhere. For every Stacey Koons that is convicted, there seems to be a Texaco executive waiting to send Blacks back to the past. Throughout the struggle for equal rights, there have been courageous Blac...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
452 wordsDr. Martin Luther King Junior, American clergyman and the best Nobel Peace Prize winner on the face of this planet, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and well-known supporter of nonviolent protest. Dr. Martin Luther King Junior challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950 s and 1960 s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. After his assassination in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior bec...
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African American Women Department Of Labor
947 wordsMaureen Honey Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson made her way to Washington, D. C. , where she lived for over fifty years at 1461 S Street NW, site of one of the greatest literary salons of the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the most famous woman poet of that literary movement, publishing four volumes of poetry: The Heart of a Woman (1918), Bronze (1922), An Autumn Love Cycle (1928), and Share My World (1962). Johnsons life illustrates the difficulties faced by African American w...
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Pepsi Cola Coca Cola
1,251 wordsAN OVER VIEW OF THE BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES Contributing to this industrial revolution among other industries were Manufacturing, Agricultural, Automotive, Chemical, Hotel, Banking Business Services, Real estate, Tourism and information Technology to name a few. But on such industry that has been holding onto its share of the market since its inception note in the USA its birthplace but all across the globe as well as the Beverage Industry. It has introduced icons that very few are oblivious to. The...
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1,102 wordsKING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929 - 68). Inspired by the belief that love and peaceful protest could eliminate social injustice, Martin Luther King, Jr. , became one of the outstanding black leaders in the United States. He aroused whites and blacks alike to protest racial discrimination, poverty, and war. A champion of nonviolent resistance to oppression, he was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr. , was born in Atlanta, Ga. , on Jan. 15, 1929. His father, Martin, Sr. , w...
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
453 wordsMartin Luther King, Jr. was born at noon Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia. He was first named Michael Luther King Jr. , and later changed his name to Martin, after his father. He was the first son and second child born to the reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. , and Alberta Williams King, a schoolteacher. Growing up as an African American in Georgia, Martin experienced and suffered discrimination throughout his boyhood. This discrimination against black people was cruel a...
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680 wordsMartin Luther King Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He grew up in a deeply religious home, like his father and maternal grandfather. In 1948, at the age of 19, he completed a degree in liberal arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Cover Technical Seminary, near Philadelphia, in 1951, and received his Ph. D. from Boston University in 1955. He married Coretta Scott in 1953 and the next year became a pastor at a church in Montgom-...
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Martin Luther King Jr Lincoln Memorial
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Martin Luther King Luther King Jr
443 wordsPat Ward 30332 01 / 22 / 00 Martin Luther King Jr. (A man of Integrity) Martin Luther King Jr. lived a very successful life as a civil rights activist, serving as the leading force behind the withdrawal of segregation laws in the 1960 s. Martin was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. His father was a pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Martin studied for many years in school and was admitted to Morehouse College, a Negro college, in 1944. He received a bachelors degree i...
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Martin Luther King Jr Contemporary Literary Criticism
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Coca Cola Company Coca Colas
1,757 wordsThe Coca-Cola Coca Cola Abstract The Coca-Cola Company started out as an insignificant one-man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. Coca-Cola was originally used as a never and brain tonic and a medical elixir. Coca-Cola debuted as a non-carbonated beverage and later carbonated water was added to the syrup to make the beverage what we know today as Coca-Cola. Today, The Coca-Cola Company is the worlds largest producer a...
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