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Claudette Colvin (born Claudette Austin; September 5, 1939) [1] [2] is an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide.On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus.
In 2009, President Ma Ying-jeou invited her to take up a policy advisor position in his government, which required her to give up U.S. citizenship. [88] 1970 s 2009: Q4 2009: David Chu: Politician Naturalized People's Republic of China Chu was born in Shanghai in 1944, and moved to Bedford, Massachusetts with his parents in 1958. He relocated ...
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave.
Didn't even give them up, just made them more occasional. A bowl of beans and rice, seasoned however you like it, makes a great meal. It got me below 200 lbs. for the first time in decades.
The people in this Reddit thread share the best decisions they’ve made that transformed their lives for the better. The post “Dropped Everything And Moved”: 39 Life Decisions People Didn’t ...
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82. In 1961 ...
Onoda was born on 19 March 1922, in Kamekawa, Wakayama, in the Empire of Japan.In 1939, he left to work at a branch of the Tajima Yoko trading company in Wuhan, China, [1] [2] and in 1942 was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army. [1]
I don’t know why the people who continued to love me through this time didn’t give up and cut me out of their lives. They must have been tempted to do so. My first wife, my second wife, my daughters (especially my oldest, who had to live through so much of this), my brothers, my colleagues at my university: They all continued to believe in ...