He acted in the belief that slaves throughout the south would rise up against their owners and join him.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

We knew that now. We accepted him for the dog he was and loved him all the more for it."

VOA: special.2009.02.23

She plays a wealthy white woman who adopts a young homeless man and helps him become a football star.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Famous people and star athletes came to see him play and many of his high school basketball games were televised.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Jackson was grateful for Van Buren's help, and asked him to come to Washington to serve as secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

"Ahh,yes." The old man said and he looked at the violin player and gave him all the respect of great man.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Finally they see the agent, Mickey Rockford, and appeal to him for a break -- a chance to become stars.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

That same year,three white men in Texas beat a black man, James Byrd Junior,and pulled him to his death behind a truck.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And he picked up Dan'l and turned him upside down and out came a whole lot of bullets.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

He caught a frog one day, and took him home,and said he was going to educate the frog.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

A policeman detained and threatened him because he was a foreigner driving a car from another state.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He quickly called for his jester and told him that his little daughter would see the moon.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

NASA's most important job was to send an American into space and return him safely to Earth.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

His father took him out of school and made him take a job in a large company.

VOA: special.2009.04.11