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Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United States to Mexico with their children owing to the federal government's prosecution of polygamy. [1] [2] His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (1846–1909), who presided over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the Mexican state of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt (1807 ...
Addie L. Wyatt (née Cameron; March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union .
Today’s crossword (McMeel) Daily Commuter crossword SUDOKU. Play the USA TODAY Sudoku Game. JUMBLE. Jumbles: CACHE SWORN ENROLL HELIUM. Answer: When George Washington jumped his stallion over ...
Civil rights activist, leader, and the first martyr of the Civil Rights Movement: Willa Brown: 1906 1992 United States: civil rights activist, first African-American lieutenant in the US Civil Air Patrol, first African-American woman to run for Congress: Walter P. Reuther: 1907 1970 United States: labor leader and civil rights activist T.R.M ...
Addie C. Strong Engle (1845–1926), American author and publisher; Addie Wagenknecht (born 1981), American artist and researcher; Addie Walsh (born 1953), American television soap opera writer; Addie Anderson Wilson (1876–1966), American composer, organist, and carillonist; Addie L. Wyatt (1924–2012), African labor leader and civil rights ...
George Romney ran for the 1968 Republican Party nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election.. Romney was the Governor of Michigan and automaker who focused his campaign on the issues of fiscal responsibility, welfare reform, and the Vietnam War. [1]
Cecilia Gentili, an Argentina-born artist and activist known for her work in the immigrant and transgender rights movements in New York City, is being widely remembered following her death last ...
Sociologist, Civil Rights Activist & Plaintiff in Hirabayashi v. United States [68] Dolores Huerta: Labor Leader & Co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association [68] Jan Karski † Resistance-Fighter during WWII & Diplomat [68] Toni Morrison: Novelist & Civil Rights Activist [68] Shimon Peres: 9th President of Israel [68] John Paul Stevens