government on November 15 over the 1965 assassination of the civil rights activist. The suit, brought by his estate and three of his daughters, claims that the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department were aware of and involved in the assassination plot and “failed to intervene on his ...
Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight boxing champion with an impressive 56-win record. He was also known for his public stance against the Vietnam War.
Femi Kuti was born Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti on June 16, 1962 in London.He is the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, and a grandchild of a political campaigner, women’s rights activist, and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. He grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, Femi’s ...
How can you take the memory of a man like [Civil Rights activist] Medgar Evers and reduce all that he was to three and a half minutes and a simple tune? That was the musical side of it I shied away from; I didn’t like ‘protest music’ because a lot of it was so simple and ...
including becoming a navy chaplain and the chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. After being dismissed from both of these positions, he converted to Catholicism and joined forces withIsrael Tonge, a known anti-Catholic activist. With Tonge's assistance, he published papers leading to thePopish Plot...
A Sutcliffe - 《History of European Ideas》 被引量: 0发表: 2022年 The grace of goodness: John Saunders Baptist pastor and activist, Sydney 1834-1848: a documentary biography Rev John Saunders (1806–-59) was the pioneer Baptist pastor in Sydney from 1834 to 1848. He established the first...
In this history, the political activist Emma Goldman became the governor of Illinois and eventually F.D.R.'s chief of staff, pushing for the New Deal to include protections for same-sex marriage and immigration rights. In addition, there are re-imaginings of countercultural scenes from the ...
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Putnam County, Georgia. She is an accomplished American poet, novelist, and activist. Walker was the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker and Willie Lee Walker. Her father was a poor sharecropper who once remarked that Alice...
In 1968, Warhol was shot by radical feminist writer and activist Valerie Solanas. She mistakenly believed that he was trying to steal one of her plays. What disease did Andy Warhol have? Andy had a disease called St. Vitus' Dance. It is a disease that causes an involuntary movement of t...
Victoria Woodhull (born Victoria Claflin; September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) was a women's rights activist, stockbroker, and newspaper editor. She ran for president of the United States in 1872. Woodhull was also involved in the spiritualist movement, and for a time she made her living as...