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Kennedy, John F.

by Mr. Anderson - Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7:52 PM
 
The youngest man elected to be President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was also the youngest to die in office. Born in Massachusetts in 1917. Kennedy graduated from Harvard in 1940 and entered the Navy where he was a WWII hero during an attack on his PT boat. After the war, he became a Democratic congressman near Boston, and in 1953 Kennedy advanced to the Senate. In 1955, while recovering from a back injury, Kennedy wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in history Seventy million Americans watched the Great Debates between Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960. Kennedy won the presidential race by a narrow margin. In his inaugural address Kennedy famously stated, "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." In response to urgent demands from many groups, Kennedy made moves to support the cause of civil rights during the early 60s. In November of 1963, after hardly 1,000 days in office, John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin’s bullet while riding in a motorcade in Texas.


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Kennedy, Richard

by Mr. Anderson - Thursday, February 21, 2013, 1:07 PM
 

Born in 1932 in Jefferson City, Missouri, Richard kennedy has worked a number of jobs, including archivist, cab driver, deckhand, fireman, and teacher. he has earned critical acclaim for his distinct contribution to American chldren's literature. Two of his most notable works are Amy's Eyes, a five hundred-page juvenile novel, and Richard Kennedy: Collected Stories


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King, Martin Luther

by Mr. Anderson - Saturday, November 20, 2010, 7:52 PM
 
Born in Atlanta in 1929, Martin Luther King attended segregated schools in Georgia, graduating high school at age fifteen. His grandfather began the family’s long tenure as pastors at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. After earning his BA from Morehouse College in 1948, King spent three years studying at the Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. At Crozer King won a fellowship and enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University where he met and married Coretta Scott and graduated in 1955. Always a strong worker for civil rights, in 1955 King accepted leadership of the first black nonviolent demonstration in the U.S.—a bus boycott lasting 382 days. King faced jail, bombing, and abuse as a leader of the boycott, but emerged as an irreplaceable leader in the movement. In 1957 King was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide leadership for the burgeoning civil rights movement. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a manifesto of the black revolution, and over 250,000 people heard his "I Have a Dream" speech during the march for civil rights in Washington, D.C. At age 35 King became the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, turning over the $50,000 in prize money to further civil rights work. In April of 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis.