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Vor 5 Stunden · Obituary: Louis Gossett Jr, actor. Actor Louis Gossett Jr in Los Angeles, California, in 1985. Photo: Getty Images. Ground-breaking actor Louis Gossett Jr was only the second black male actor to win an Academy Award, and also a tireless civil rights advocate. New York-born, Gossett Jr spoke candidly about the racism he had encountered early in ...
Vor 5 Stunden · Like many European rulers of the time who were influenced by the prestige of Louis XIV of France and his court, Frederick adopted French tastes and manners, though in Frederick's case, the extent of his Francophile tendencies might have been a reaction to the austerity of the family environment created by his father, who had a deep aversion for France and promoted an austere culture.
Vor 5 Stunden · Félix Houphouët-Boigny, the son of a Baoulé chief, became Ivory Coast's father of independence. In 1944, he formed the country's first agricultural trade union for African cocoa farmers like himself. Angered that colonial policy favoured French plantation owners, the union members united to recruit migrant workers for their own farms. Houphouët-Boigny soon rose to prominence and was ...
