Sat, 11 Feb 2012
Home » Archives
Linda McCartney Biography (1941-1998)
Published on 13 Feb, 2010 at 11:19 in Biography | | No Comments
Photographer, author, musician, social activist. Born Linda Louise Eastman on September 24, 1941, in New York, New York . Perhaps best known as the wife of Paul McCartney, member of the legendary rock group the Beatles, Linda McCartney was a talented artist in her own right. Growing up in Scarsdale, New York, she was no stranger to celebrity. Her father…
Martin Luther King Jr. Biography (1929-1968)
Published on 30 Dec, 2009 at 5:30 in Biography | | No Comments
(born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts…
Muhammad Ali Biography (1942-)
Published on 30 Dec, 2009 at 3:41 in Biography | | No Comments
Boxer, philanthropist, social activist. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky. Once one of the top American boxers, Muhammad Ali has shown that he is not afraid of any fight—inside or outside the ring. Growing up in the segregated South, Ali experienced firsthand the prejudice and discrimination that African-Americans faced during this…
