Music File Hosting – Listen Audio Files – Biography – Wilma Rudolph_ 1… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in one Olympics. They called her “the Black Pearl,” “the Black Gazelle” […]
Embed Music – Listen Audio – Biography – Roberto Clemente… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Roberto Clemente. He was one of the most honored baseball players in history. He became the first Latino baseball player to be included in the Baseball […]
Play Music – Audio Hosting – Biography – Lou Gehrig_ 1903… Now, the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. A North American Major League baseball record was established in nineteen thirty-nine. The man who set it played in two thousand one hundred thirty games without missing one. In nineteen ninety-five, the record was broken […]
Upload Music Files – Upload Audio – Biography – Kay Yow_ Betty J… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about two women who helped change the world of sports: golfer Betty Jameson and basketball coach Kay Yow. Both women were founders of women’s […]
Music Hosting – Listen Audio Files – John Wooden (1910-2010) – Ba… This is the VOA Special English Education Report. John Wooden died last Friday (June 4, 2010) at the age of ninety-nine. He was one of the greatest twentieth-century Americans in sports. He was an excellent college basketball player. He led Purdue University to […]
Listen Music Files – Listen Audio Files – Biography – Jesse Owens_ 191… This is Gwen Outen. And this is Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today we tell the story of athlete Jesse Owens. He […]
Listen Music Files – Play Audio – Biography – Jackie Robinson_… ANNOUNCER: Welcome to PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today Shirley Griffith and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about a man who changed professional baseball in the United States. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play […]
Upload Music Files – Download Audio – Bob Feller_ 1918-2010_ One o… I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Bob Feller, one of the best pitchers in the history of American baseball. “I didn’t know much. I just reared back and let them […]
Share Music – Play Audio – Biography – Babe Ruth_ 1895-… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Doug Johnson with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about Babe Ruth, America’s greatest baseball player. Some say he was […]
Play Music – Share Audio – Biography_ Arthur Ashe_ 1943… I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life of tennis champion Arthur Ashe. He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty. He was honored for his […]