Making improvement to the church’s finances Martin became the highest paid black pastor of his time (Hodgson 21). The church had enough money to send King Sr. by boat to attend the World Baptist meeting in Germany. He stopped in Paris, Rome, Egypt, and to the Holy land. On his trip to Germany Michael King, Sr. decided to change his name to Martin Luther King and when he returned to Georgia he changed his son’s named to Martin Luther King Jr. (Hodgson 20). King Sr. became a strong black leader in Atlanta he was appointed president of the NACCP to help the social reform (Carson 5).
He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
Motown artists started leaving in the 70's, while Gordy, distracted by Hollywood, started making movies and slowly started losing creativity (Cruz). Andre Harrell took over Motown in the 90's, moved it to New York, and changed the style of music (Wishing on a Star.). The only group selling 11 million records in the 90's was Boyz II Men. (Wishing on a Star.). The style of music Motown focused on changed.
Dale Hansen, running city to city, only to get hired and fired has gone through so much in his life into becoming a well successful sports caster shares his life journey with Duncanville’s journalism class. As a young teenager Dale Hansen was a sophomore basketball star but flunked every class he took. After high school he had gone to the Navy, then became a bill collector, employment agency counselor, foods sales man, and again a bill collector. Yet through all these jobs, he was fired from each and every one of them. Dale then went to a trade school in Milwaukee Wisconsin only to become a radio disk jockey.
For my research paper I chose to focus on Lil Wayne. I admire him because he is hard working and he has gone through a lot to achieve his American dream and he never gave up on it. Lil Wayne's American dream was to have a better life for himself and move his family out of the ghetto. He had been trying to do that since he was young and then he finally got discovered at the age of 13 by Birdman who was a well-known local producer. He took Lil Wayne to the top and even though he had to drop out of high school it was wroth it because he is now worth over 24 Million dollars.
Michael Jackson: A Star Among Stars Michael Jackson is the biggest pop star of the 80s, and is one of the most popular musi-cians of all time. Jackson stood out from the crowd with his unique voice, eye-popping dance moves, dominant stage presence and musical versatility. Michael Jackson had 12 number 1 rec-ords, 51 million copies sold of Thriller, 80 million copies of the others and 13 Grammy Awards but beneath all the numbers there was a man whose achievements were far greater. His success in the ‘80s opened up white America to black music. Without Jackson there is no Prince, no Chris Brown and no Usher.
Tamela came from the hit film Tammy and The Bachelor that artist Debbie Reynolds sang. Tamela Records introduced many artists such as Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Marvelettes, and The Isley Brothers. Tamela Records is a record label that was established in The United Kingdom. Tamela Records has its own slogan “The Sound that makes the world go round.” Tamela was started off an $800 family loan in 1959. (tamela records) In 2005 Motown merged with Universal Records and became Universal Motown Records.
The summer of 1967 was called the “summer of love” and inspired the hippie movement that unified many of these like-minded revolutionaries under the encouragement of music. The Beatle’s album Sgt. Pepper’s was released in the beginning of June by the Apple corporation and became number one on the U.K. charts, selling millions. This album had a huge influence on this movement, blowing all expectations out of the water. Their new sound truly changed the way people perceived music and the world around them.
“Failure is a word that I simply don’t accept” John H. Johnson Defying the odds was John H. Johnson passion. He rose from poverty to become one of the most influential African American publishers in American history. Born in Arkansas in 1918, he was the grandson of slaves, his father was killed in a sawmill accident when he was eight. At that time, in Arkansas, blacks could not attend high school so in order to keep learning he attended 8th grade twice. His mother worked as a cook and as washerwomen for many years to support the family and to save enough to move her family to Chicago.
George Eastman, who was the founder of Kodak, started his business career as a 14-year old boy when he had to quit school and work to support his mother and two sisters. Mr. Eastman had a gift for organization and management while his lively and inventive mind made him a successful entrepreneur by his mid-twenties. Eastman Kodak (Kodak) was the largest photographic filmmaker established in 1880 in the world and one of the representative firms which ranked 43th in the Fortune 500 in 1955. However, Kodak retreated to 327th in 2011 and filed protection for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 19 January 2012. There are various comments on the Kodak’s business failure that Kodak was late to adapt to the wave of digitalization.