2009-11-15 Helen Keller, 1880-1968: She Became the Most Famous Disabled Person in the World
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2009-11-08 Helen Keller, 1880-1968: Out of a World of Darkness and Silence, She Brought Hope to Millions of People Around the World
VOICE ONE: I’m Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I’m Ray Freeman. Every week we tell about a person who was…
2009-11-01 Carl Rowan, 1925-2000: The first black director of the United States Information Agency.
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2009-10-25 Charles Schulz, 1922-2000: He wrote the popular comic strip “Peanuts” for 50 years.
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2009-10-18 Betty Friedan,1921-2006: A Leader of the Modern Women’s Rights Movement
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2009-10-11 Jack Benny, 1894-1974: He Won Hearts Mostly by Making Fun of Himself
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2009-10-04 Nina Simone, 1933-2003: Singer Was Active in the Civil Rights Movement
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2009-09-27 Les Paul, 1915-2009: His Electric Guitar and Inventions Changed 20th Century Popular Music
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2009-09-20 Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003: An Independent and Intelligent Actress
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2009-09-13 Edward Kennedy, 1932-2009: The ‘Liberal Lion’ of the Senate
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2009-09-06 Cesar Chavez, 1927- 1993: He Organized the First Successful Farm Workers Union in America
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2009-08-30 Eugene McCarthy,1916-2005 : His Campaign for President in 1968 Forced a President From Office
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2009-08-23 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009: She Changed the World for People With Mental Disabilities
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2009-08-09 Diane Arbus, 1923-1971: A Revolutionary Photographer of Unusual People
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2009-08-16 Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009: A Trusted TV Newsman
VOICE ONE: I’m Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I’m Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. WALTER…