Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and one of the leading black leaders in the fight against racial discrimination in the United States. A political activist, Martin demanded living wages and more jobs for the black population. Furthermore, he defended womens rights and was a
Tonight, a long excerpt from Antoine Coppolanis excellent biography, Richard Nixon , published by Éditions Fayard in October. I had already reviewed a good book on Nixon, by Romain Huret (https://brumes.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/de-quoi-nixon-est-il-le-nom/). Coppolanis massive work (a biography that
In 1963, Sidney Poitier he managed to be the first African-American actor to win the Oscar for best actor for his performance in Lilies of the valley , but the beginnings were not easy. Sidney Poitier with the Oscar. Although he has always considered himself Bahamian, he was born in Miami -bec
Truman is famous in Japan for dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but in reality his duties are widespread. Harry S. Truman before becoming president Truman was born and raised in Missouri in 1886, and after graduating from a local high school he got a job at a bank. Truman is the