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Reuther, Walter Philip

(Encyclopedia) Reuther, Walter PhilipReuther, Walter Philipr&oomacr;ˈthər [key], 1907–70, American labor leader, b. Wheeling, W.Va. A tool- and diemaker, he became shop foreman in a Detroit…

Sumner, Charles

(Encyclopedia) Sumner, Charles, 1811–74, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1851–74), b. Boston. He attended (1831–33) and was later a lecturer at Harvard law school, was admitted (1834) to the bar,…

Women's Suffrage: Campaigning for Ratification

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Congress of the United Sta...Hard Work for Special SessionsCampaigning for RatificationLong before the Federal Suffrage Amendment…

Lukashenko, Aleksandr Grigoryevich

(Encyclopedia) Lukashenko, Aleksandr GrigoryevichLukashenko, Aleksandr Grigoryevichəlyĭksänˈdər grĭgôrˈyəvĭch l&oomacr;käshĕnˈkô [key], Belarusian Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka, 1954–,…

Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis

(Encyclopedia) Muhammad, Benjamin Franklin Chavis, 1948–, African-American civil-rights and religious leader, b. Oxford, N.C., as Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr. An activist from boyhood, he was a…

Faubus, Orval

(Encyclopedia) Faubus, OrvalFaubus, Orvalôrˈvəl fôˈbəs [key], 1910–94, governor of Arkansas (1955–67), b. Combs, Ark. A schoolteacher, he served in World War II and after the war became Arkansas's…

Foote, Henry Stuart

(Encyclopedia) Foote, Henry Stuart, 1804–80, U.S. senator (1847–52) and governor of Mississippi (1852–54), b. Fauquier co., Va. An able criminal lawyer, he practiced in several different states. In…

Hastings, Alcee Lamar

(Encyclopedia) Hastings, Alcee Lamar, 1936-2021, African American judge and politician, b. Altamonte, Springs, Fl., Fisk Univ. (1958, B.A.), Florida…

Bond, Julian

(Encyclopedia) Bond, Julian (Horace Julian Bond), 1940–2015, U.S. civil-rights leader, b. Nashville, Tenn. As a student at Morehouse College, he participated in sit-ins at segregated Atlanta…

Carmichael, Stokely

(Encyclopedia) Carmichael, Stokely, 1941–98, African-American social activist, b. Trinidad. He lived in New York City from 1952 and graduated from Howard Univ. in 1964. Carmichael participated in the…