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12 Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States [1] is a photodocumentary book with text by Richard Wright. The images were taken by the Farm Security Administration and selected by Edwin Rosskam. Viking Press first published the book in 1941, to relatively positive reviews, and it has since been analyzed by various ...
A study at the University of Nebraska quotes a speech given to a 1872 convention of Black southerners by Robert H. Knox (described at the time as a "prominent ...
Richard Martin Watt was born on November 10, 1930, in La Grange, Illinois, United States. [1] [2] Watt attended Glen Ridge High School in Essex County, New Jersey, before reading English at Dartmouth College, graduating in the class of 1952. [1] After graduating, Watt was commissioned as an ensign and spent three years serving in the United ...
Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II is a 1982 book by Richard C. Lukas, published by the University Press of Kentucky.It deals with the postwar Polish history and Polish-American relations, as well as the American aid that was extended to Poland after World War II.
Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, [1] the son of Christine (née Becker) and Richard Michael Abel. [citation needed] Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 [2] and joined a touring company.
On 20 December 1973, the Wall Street Journal quoted Sayre as: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." Political scientist Herbert Kaufman, a colleague and coauthor of Sayre, has attested to Fred R. Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, that Sayre usually stated his claim as "The politics of the university are so intense ...
The "last press conference" of US politician Richard Nixon took place on November 7, 1962, following his loss in the 1962 California gubernatorial election to Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. Appearing before 100 reporters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel , Nixon lashed out at the media, proclaiming that "you don't have Nixon to kick around any more ...
No Way Out is a 1950 American crime drama film noir [4] directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Sidney Poitier in his film debut, alongside Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Stephen McNally. The film centers on an African American doctor who confronts the racism of a poor slum after he treats a racist white criminal.