A dancer‚ choreographer‚ activist‚ and teacher; Katherine Dunham is by far a legendary woman. She was born on June 22‚ 1909 in Chicago to a French Canadian mother and an African American father. Unfortunately‚ when Dunham was around the age of four years old‚ her mother passed away. This caused her to have to live with other family members before permanently moving to Joliet‚ Illinois where her father worked at the dry cleaning business that he owned. As a child‚ Dunham always had a knack for
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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31st 1919. In 1947‚ at the age of 28‚ Jackie became the first African American to break the “color line” of Major League Baseball when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. During his tenure with the Dodgers‚ Jackie was not simply an average player. Among various other accolades‚ Mr. Robinson was a starter on six World Series teams as well as being named the National League Rookie of The Year in 1947. His advantageous career was then capped in 1962
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized demonstrations and boycotts of discriminating companies‚ and whose untimely murder received national attention and made him a martyr to the American legacy of equality. He worked to investigate crimes against African Americans like the Emmett Till murder‚ making him a high-profile citizen in his state. As Medgar Evers was graduating college in the early 1950s‚ battles for civil rights were being fought valiantly. Several attempts were made
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Angelou got her name from her brother‚ Bailey‚ who called her "Mya sister" and her first husband‚ Tosh Angelo. She was born on the fourth in April of 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Mo. Maya Angelou is a poet‚ historian‚ author‚ actress‚ play-write‚ civil rights activist‚ a publisher‚ director‚ a mother‚ and a survivor. She is one of the most influential African Americans in American history. When her parents divorced she was sent to Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with her grandmother‚ Annie Henderson. Marguerite and Bailey
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Table of Contents CHAPTER ONE 2 1.0 Background of the Study 2 1.1 Statement of the Problem 4 1.2 Purpose of the Study 6 1.3 Research Questions 7 1.4 Importance of the Study 7 1.5 Scope of the Study 8 1.6 Chapter Summary 8 CHAPTER TWO 9 2.0 Literature Review 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Research Question 1: Is the CEO also the Board Chairman? 9 2.2.1 Corporate Governance 9 2.2.2 Dualism 10 2.3 Research Question 2: Are there board committees in the board of directors? 10 2.3.1 Board
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Stokely Carmichael:Civil Rights Stokely Carmichael was a Civil Rights Activist that worked along side Fannie Lou Hamer‚ Martin Luther King‚ ect. On June 29‚ 1941‚ in Port of Spain‚ Trinidad and Tobago‚ Stokely Carmichael was born. After his diagnosis of prostate cancer in 1996‚ Benefit concerts were held in Denver‚ New York‚ Atlanta‚ and Washington D.C. to help pay for his medical expenses. The government of Trinidad and Tobago where he was born awarded him a $1‚000 grant a month to help cover
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ABSTRACT In this essay‚ I am going to prove that a business organization should be socially responsible in a successful or an effective manner which will eventually benefit the company’s owners or shareholders. I will do so through illustrating the different potential effects of a business organization engaging in Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”). The effects that will be shown in this essay would be an increase and decrease in the company’s expenses‚ sustaining and harming the environment
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Corporate Governance in India: Disciplining the Dominant Shareholder Abstract The nascent debate on corporate governance in India has tended to draw heavily on the large Anglo-American literature on the subject. This paper argues however that the corporate governance problems in India are very different. The governance issue in the US or the UK is essentially that of disciplining the management who have ceased to be effectively accountable to the owners. The problem in the Indian corporate sector
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As a human rights advocate‚ a stateswoman‚ and the First Lady of the United States‚ Eleanor Roosevelt became one of the most respected‚ and cherished woman of her lifetime. Mrs. Roosevelt was born in New York City‚ New York‚ and in her teens was educated in the United Kingdom. She married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905‚ and out of six children only 5 survived. When President Roosevelt was a senator in Albany‚ and Secretary of the Navy‚ Mrs. Roosevelt gained her political experience
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Andrew Young is an politician‚ diplomat‚ and activist. Andrew Young was born on March 12‚ 1932 in New Orleans‚ Louisiana. Andrew Young was part of a middle class family growing up. His father was a dentist and his mother was a teacher. When he was a child he had travel away from his neighborhood to attend a segregated school. When he finished high school he attended Howard University. After he finished school at Howard University he chose to study at Connecticut’s Hartford Theological Seminary. In
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