John Lewis was an American civil rights leader and politician best known for his chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and for leading the landmark Selma March in 1965. In 1986 he was elected to a Georgia district that includes At
John L. Lewis: A BiographyThe article reviews the book "John L. Lewis: A Biography," Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine.doi:10.2307/25142975Zieger, Robert Hlabour
The orphaned Herbert then left Iowa forOregon, where he grew up in the home of John and Laura Minthorn, his maternal uncle and aunt. His parents’ character and religiosity and the trauma of his early childhood left an indelible mark on the young Herbert, instilling in him the self-relia...
Anne Boleyn was convicted of treason and executed on May 19, 1536. Henry announced his betrothal to Jane Seymour the next day, May 20. They were married on May 30 and Jane Seymour was pronounced Queen Consort on June 4, which was also the public announcement of the marriage. She was nev...
As someone who is both aJohn Hendrixfan and was an obsessive enough fan of C.S. Lewis to actually write abiographyof him, I was excited to see this new book. Although it bills itself as a graphic novel, the amount of information far exceeds most of that genre. The lion and wizard ...
Lewis explores the ways in which Ackroyd allows these two genres to cross-fertilize, each informing the ... B Lewis 被引量: 13发表: 2007年 The Masks of Mary Renault: A Literary Biography p r e f a c e In the process of writing this book, I have often been asked how I came to ...
Lewis never left the rock world completely. In 1973, he did well on the album charts with “The Session”. He revisited some of his older songs as well as the works of Chuck Berry and John Fogerty on this popular recording. When he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’...
Meanwhile, tragedy struck with the sudden death of his five-year old son Waldo in 1842, soon after the death of John Thoreau from lockjaw, and a darker, tougher strain appears in Emerson’s writing, beginning with his memorializing poem,“Threnody.”But Emerson pulled himself together to give...
Lewis, Thomas a Kempis, Hannah Whital Smith, Watchman Nee, Richard Wurmbrandt, Elizabeth Elliott, George Mueller, and many others. I soon found that my values and passions were quite different not only from the world, but also from many of those in the evangelical churches. I had two ...
Clark, scholar of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision Clark by Congressmen Charles Rangel and John Lewis, and former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. In addition, the book contains Dr. Clark's views of his contemporaries, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Senator ...