Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mandela attended Communist Party gatherings, where he was impressed that Europeans, Africans, Indians, and Coloureds mixed as equals. He later stated that he did not join the party because its atheism conflicted with his Christian faith, and because he saw the South African struggle as being racially based rather than as class warfare. [44]
Children passing a Nelson Mandela wall mural in the Township Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa Alamy I spent a couple of months this summer researching and writing a children's biography, Nelson ...
The 1994 general election, held on 27 April, was South Africa's first multi-racial election with full enfranchisement.The African National Congress won a 63 percent share of the vote at the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country's first Black President, with the National Party's F.W. de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second ...
(North Carolina State University) Renowned mechanical engineer [2] Dr. Thomas Gibson Beta Omicron Sigma (Columbus, Ohio) Chancellor of University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point [2] Dr. Willie Gilchrist Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University [2] Victor J. Glover: Omicron Pi (California Polytechnic State University)
Texas State University comprises over 8 million gross square feet in facilities and its campuses are located on over 600 acres with an additional 4,000 acres of agriculture, research, and recreational areas. The Texas State University main campus is located in San Marcos, Texas, midway between Austin and San Antonio along Interstate 35.
The McDowell Business Administration Building, built during the presidency of D. Whitney Halladay. The history of East Texas State University (ETSU) comprises the history of the university now known as East Texas A&M University from its renaming as East Texas State University in 1965 (after the establishment of its first doctoral program) to its admission into the Texas A&M University System ...
The first president of Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College is Edward Orton, Sr. who served from 1873 to 1881. During Orton's term, the university became Ohio State University, in 1878. Karen A. Holbrook took office in 2002 and was the first female president. E.
Rose did not seek re-election in 1986 and instead ran for Ohio State Auditor. [10] Bill Thompson Republican: January 2, 1987 – August 8, 1997 Thompson resigned after appointment to the Ohio Industrial Commission. John R. Willamowski: Republican: August 8, 1997 – December 31, 2006 Willamowski was term-limited in 2006. Matt Huffman: Republican