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1 day ago · State flag of Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the U.S. map The following are notable people who were either born, raised, or have lived for a significant period of time in the American state of Louisiana. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. A Mark Abraham (born 1953), state ...
1 day ago · Website. www.time.com /poy. Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999) [1] is an annual issue of the American news magazine and website Time featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year". [2]
1 day ago · Official website. Signature. Henry Ross Perot Sr. (/ pəˈroʊ / ⓘ pə-ROH; June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. He was the founder and chief executive officer of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems. He ran an independent campaign in the 1992 U.S. presidential election and a third ...
1 day ago · — Cesar Chavez, on avoiding the pitfalls of the CSO The Committee targeted its criticism at Hector Zamora, the director of the Ventura County Farm Labor Association, who controlled most of the jobs in the area. It used sit-ins of workers to raise the profile of their cause, a tactic also used by proponents of the civil rights movement in the southern U.S. at that time. It had some success in ...
2 hours ago · 1968 [5] –1969: [6] Chair of the Republican Governors Association. Ronald Wilson Reagan[a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement, and ...
1 day ago · Kennedy and Johnson, however, both supported civil rights. [127] In October 1960, when Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested at a peaceful sit-in in Atlanta, Georgia, Kennedy placed a sympathetic phone call to King's wife, Coretta Scott King, and Kennedy's brother Robert F. Kennedy helped secure King's release. King expressed his appreciation for ...
1 day ago · Joseph R. Gusfield (1923–2015), Soziologe und Suchtforscher; Johnny Hartman (1923–1983), Jazzsänger; Elizabeth Hawley (1923–2018), Journalistin und Chronistin; Helen Horton (1923–2009), Schauspielerin; Daniel William Kucera (1923–2017), römisch-katholischer Erzbischof; Melvin Moore (1923–1989), Jazztrompeter; Mike Nussbaum (1923 ...
