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John F. King is a retired American military officer and the state of Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner. He was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp as commissioner on July 1, 2019, replacing Jim Beck .
Hamilton is widely used to teach poetry in classrooms. [16] Another dramatic Latino poet is Giannina Braschi, who writes epic poetry that embeds dramatic, lyrical, and prose poems into lyric essays, political manifestos, and short stories. [17] [18] Braschi's cross-genre poetry works include Empire of Dreams (1994), the Spanglish classic Yo-Yo ...
Hispanic Heritage Month is very important to Zamanillo as part of his career focused on making Hispanic and Latino history included in U.S. history. After a trip to Washington, D.C., 30 years ago ...
By 1973, Fariña was asked to accompany her sister Joan and B.B. King when they performed for the prisoners in Sing Sing Prison. This experience, along with her arrest in 1967, led her to a desire to do more for those who are held in institutions. Poster for Mimi Fariña concert held at Condon School in Oregon in June 1975.
Willie Christine King Farris (September 11, 1927 – June 29, 2023) was an American teacher and civil rights activist. King was the sister of Martin Luther King Jr. She taught at Spelman College and was the author of several books and was a public speaker on various topics, including the King family, multicultural education , and teaching.
Here, she became friends with the King children, including Martin Luther King Jr. and his youngest brother, Alfred Daniel (A.D.) Williams King. In 1949, while studying French at Spelman College in ...
Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859 – November 25, 1928) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, preservationist, poet and librarian who promoted Native American rights and historic preservation. He founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Lummis began his career as a printer and wrote poems.
Poems for Grandmothers, illustrated by Patricia Callen-Clark, Holiday House, 1990. Poems for Brothers, Poems for Sisters, illustrated by Jean Zallinger, Holiday House, 1991. Lots of Limericks, Macmillan, 1991. If You Ever Meet a Whale, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher, Holiday House, 1992. A Time to Talk: Poems of Friendship, McElderry, 1992.