Kennedy, led Malcolm X to leave the Nation of Islam in 1964. That same year, Malcolm X embarked on an extended trip through North Africa and the Middle East. The journey proved to be both a political and spiritual turning point in his life. He learned to place America’s Civil Rights ...
Into the early ’60s, Sly’s musical education continued at Vallejo Junior College, where he added trumpet to his mixed bag, and mastered composition and theory as well. Around 1964, he started as a fast-talking disc jockey at R&B radio station KSOL. His eclectic musical tastes made Sly ...
John F. Kennedy. Clinton enrolled at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1964 and graduated in 1968 with a degree in international affairs. During his freshman and sophomore years he was elected student president, and during his junior and senior years he worked as an intern for ...
Kennedy signing the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, October 7, 1963.(more) The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon ...
Two months later, then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed the football player was among his possible selections for vice president. The independent candidate ultimately selected lawyer Nicole Shanahan before ending his campaign in August. More From Biography You Need to Know: Duke...
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Kennedy had asked Harry Cohn to stop exporting Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) to Europe as it portrayed American democracy so negatively.) About Mr. Up-beat and Mr-Downbeat and "Mr. In-between," Capra says, "We all respect and admire each other because the great majority freely ...
In the late 1950s Johnson traveled with the future president Richard Nixon to Africa and Russia. Later, he met President John F. Kennedy and traveled with Robert Kennedy to the Ivory Coast. As interest in black history grew, Johnson Publishing created a book division. AsEbonytook on a greate...
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Michael's father, known as Junior or "Sonny," was a man of immense character, intellect, and resilience. He was a trail blazer, paving the way for future leaders like General Colin Powell, who also hailed from the Bronx. Sonny grew up during the Great Depression, which began with the ...