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It is God's way. His will be done." [ 1 ][ note 1 ] — William McKinley, president of the United States (14 September 1901), dying after being shot on 6 September. "My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [ 3 ] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan.
t. e. A suicide note or death note is a message written by a person who intends to die by suicide. A study examining Japanese suicide notes estimated that 25–30% of suicides are accompanied by a note. However, incidence rates may depend on ethnicity and cultural differences, and may reach rates as high as 50% in certain demographics. [1]
Oh, God! Oh!" [ 15 ][ 16 ] — Kevin Cosgrove, a businessman employed at the South Tower of the World Trade Center (11 September 2001), over the phone to a 911 dispatcher, who he called from the 105th floor. His last words were uttered when the South Tower collapsed, taking him along with it. "I will never die."
Robert Franklin Williams (February 26, 1925 – October 15, 1996) was an American civil rights leader and author best known for serving as president of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and into 1961. He succeeded in integrating the local public library and swimming pool in Monroe. At a time of high racial tension and ...
First edition (publ. Institute of Black Studies) Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams.Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". [1]
Robert Lee Williams was born in Biscoe, Arkansas, on February 20, 1930, during the Jim Crow Era. [2] His parents received no formal education whatsoever. His father, Robert L. Williams, worked as a millwright and died when his son was just five years old. Williams' mother, Rosie L. Williams, worked in the homes of white families until her death ...
“The screams were blood-curdling,” Robert Ward later wrote in a letter to the Journal Sentinel. ... But when Williams returned from suicide watch a few days later, on Oct. 27, all four men ...
Radio Free Dixie was a radio program broadcast from Cuba by American civil rights leader Robert F. Williams in the early 1960s that advocated for racial equality. It called on black Americans to rise up against what Williams saw as an inherently racist system. The radio program featured music, political conversation, and storytelling. [1]