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George Washington Carver Hall Of Fame
1,250 wordsGeorge Washington Carver was born into slavery January of 1860 on the Moses Carver plantation in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He spent the first year of his life, the brutal days of border war, between Missouri and neighboring Kansas. George was a very sickly child with a whooping cough, which later lead to his speech impediment, and he was tiny and puny. Georges father, James Carver, died in a wood hauling accident when he was bringing wood to his masters house one day. George was sick a great deal...
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Walter Johnson A Pitcher
697 wordsIn the beginning there were players like Ty Cobb who hit. 300 for 23 consecutive years, and the 'flying dutchman' House Wagner. Pitchers like the 'christian gentleman' Christy Mathewson, and the winning est pitcher in history Cy Young. In the years when the only Yankees were the people in the north and there was an upstart franchise called the American League there was a pitcher, his name was Walter Johnson. Known as the 'big train' because of his high powered fastball which was unequaled in all...
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Negro Leagues Black Baseball Life
1,861 words... law broadcasting contracts were started, teams relied almost fully on ticket sales to pay their expenses, spring training, travel, player salaries, stadium repairs, and make a profit. Attendance was always higher for winning teams, and Rickey was not alone in believing that African-American players could improve his team. The Dodgers played well with black stars like Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, and Don Newcombe. In a 1955 interview in the Rickey Papers, Rickey said that his belief in eq...
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
654 wordsBob Dylan is the pre-eminent poet, lyricist, and songwriter of his time. He re-energized the folk music genre; brought new lyrical depth to rock and roll and when he went electric he combined the worlds of rock and roll and country. His lyrics captured and defined the mood of a generation. Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24 th, 1941, in Minnesota. He learned to play the harmonica and piano by the age of ten and taught himself to play the guitar. Influenced by rock and roll Dylan form ...
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Hall Of Fame African American
1,647 wordsHistory of Harlem's Architecture There are a lot of various controversial statements about Harlem, this community has always been considered somewhat dangerous by the white inhabitants of New York, who were unwilling even to walk through it sometimes. However, the history of Harlem is rather interesting, there were a lot of events, which influenced the lifestyles of Harlem's inhabitants and also had a profound impact on the countrys history as a whole. The history of Harlem's architecture is clo...
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