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1 day ago · Recorded January 21, 2009. John Robert Lewis(February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activistwho served in the United States House of Representativesfor Georgia's 5th congressional districtfrom 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-insand the Freedom Rides, was the ...
1 day ago · Barry Manilow was born Barry Alan Pincus on June 17, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York, [10] the son of Edna Manilow and Harold Kelliher, a truck driver of Irish descent. Barry's mother made his father change his name to Pincus, which was the name of a Jewish uncle of his father from the 1800s.
1 day ago · 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries. From March to July 1968, Democratic Party voters elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's nominee for president in the upcoming election. Delegates, and the nominee they were to support at the convention, were selected through a series of ...
1 day ago · African American slaves in Georgia, 1850. African Americans are the result of an amalgamation of many different countries, [33] cultures, tribes and religions during the 16th and 17th centuries, [34] broken down, [35] and rebuilt upon shared experiences [36] and blended into one group on the North American continent during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and are now called African American.
