Upload Music Files – Audio File Hosting – Biography – Susan B. Anthony… In the eighteen fifties, women in the United States began to try to gain the same rights as men. One woman was a leader in the campaign to gain women the right to vote. I’m Stan Busby. And I’m Shirley Griffith. Today […]
Play Music – Share Audio – Biography – Samuel Gompers_ … I’m Phoebe Zimmerman. And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about one of the country’s greatest labor leaders, Samuel Gompers. Samuel Gompers was born in London, England in eighteen fifty. His parents were poor people […]
Listen Music – Download Audio – Biography – Rosa Parks_ 1913… I’m Pat Bodnar. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Rosa Parks, who has been called the mother of the American civil rights movement. Until the nineteen sixties, black people in many parts of the […]
Music File Hosting – Audio Hosting – Molly Brown_ 1867-1932_ A So… Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Mario Ritter. And I’m Shirley Griffith. Margaret Brown was a social and political activist in the formative years of the modern American West. Her biggest claim to fame was surviving the Titanic. This […]
Listen Music Files – Listen Audio Files – Biography – Martin Luther Ki… Today, Shep O’Neal and Warren Scheer finish the story of civil right’s leader Martin Luther King, Junior. Martin Luther King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in nineteen twenty-nine. He began his university studies when he was fifteen years old, and received a […]
Upload Music – Play Audio – Biography – Martin Luther Ki… Today, Warren Scheer and Shep O’Neal begin the story of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Junior. It all started on a bus. A black woman was returning home from work after a long hard day. She sat near the front of the bus […]
Download Music – Upload Audio Files – Biography – Margaret Sanger_… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Sarah Long with the VOA Special English Program,PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about one of the leaders of the birth control movement, Margaret Sanger. Many women today have the freedom to decide when they will have children, […]
Embed Music – Upload Audio Files – Biography – Five Labor Leade… Welcome to PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. At the beginning of the twentieth century, American laborers often worked long hours for little pay. Many worked under extremely dangerous conditions. About five hundred thousand workers, however, had joined groups called labor unions, […]
Embed Music – Free Audio – Biography_ Jane Jacobs_ 1916… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Jane Jacobs. She was an activist for improving cities. Jane Jacobs was an activist, writer, moral thinker and economist. She believed cities should be densely populated and full […]