Matthew Bunker Ridgway was an American general who became known for his actions during the Korea War.
Expert in airborne troops, he distinguished himself during the Second World War and especially during the Korean War where he assumed supreme command of the United Nations Command after the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur and succeeded in stabilizing the situation.
Matthew Ridgway wore the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was also decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the American Legion of Merit and the Silver Star for courage. France made him Grand Cross in the Legion of Honor.
<span> </span>CORE which was
founded by James Farmer began using sit-ins as a form of protest against
restaurants that were refusing to serve African Americans. This form of protest
had been popularized by union workers in the 1930s. CORE hoped to use to desegregate
restaurants that refused to serve blacks.
She was a black woman who wrote poems, when most slaves were slaughtered for even learning to read. Thus shows, she was a form of evolution for freedom if her race.
