In recent days, Americans have lost two civil rights leaders of the twentieth century, Dorothy Height and Benjamin Hooks.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Benjamin was a lawyer. He had been a General in the Union Army during America's Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Benjamin was a quiet boy. For much of the time, his parents were busy working in his father's store.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

Former President George W.Bush presented Benjamin Carson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at the White House.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Justice Brent Benjamin now chief justice voted to overturn a fifty million dollar judgment against the Massey Coal Company.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

They won the gold medal. Benjamin Spock worked at a camp for disabled children for three summers during his years at Yale.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Benjamin Henry Latrobe was the architect and he really tried to make it as fine as he could.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

So Benjamin Hooks enrolled at DePaul University in Chicago,Illinois, where he earned a law degree in nineteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

This week in our series, Leo Scully and Jack Weitzel tell how these issues were handled during the administration of President Benjamin Harrison.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON: "Mama, some days I feel different than the day before."

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Wednesday's test came two days after Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Israeli prime minister, visited President Obama.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of the ninth President of the United States, William Henry Harrison.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

tells the story of his life. Benjamin Carson was born in nineteen fifty-one in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

As a child,Benjamin, or Benny as his friends called him, learned to play the violin.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards,the most this year.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

Then he campaigned for Republican Benjamin Harrison in the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

One was the failure of its editor, Benjamin Harris, to get permission to publish.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

And that was how one of America's founding fathers,Benjamin Franklin, came into public life.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Benjamin was a quiet child. He attended Phillips Academy, a private school in Andover,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Twelve years later,during President Benjamin Harrison's administration, Congress passed a new silver purchase bill.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

Justice Benjamin refused to remove himself from Massey's appeal and cast the deciding vote.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Benjamin Spock had married Jane Cheney during his second year in medical school.

VOA: special.2009.03.15