Article: Letter: A fine statue of George Dawson.(Letters)

Article: Well that?s another fine statue. . .
The Northern Echo;  August 30, 2008 ;     402 words ...YOU have to take your hat off to one of the world?s most famous comics ? he?s still a cult figure more than 40 years after his death. A bowler-clad brigade of Stan Laurel fans will descend on the centre of Bishop Auckland this afternoon, when the town officially unveils a statue on the site of his

Article: George Dawson: The Beauty of Reading, the Shame of ...
Tennessee TRIBUNE, The;  February 28, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Tennessee TRIBUNE, The 02-28-2001 George Dawson: The Beauty of Reading, the Shame of Racism As I read George Dawson's memoir, Life Is So Good (co ... made to know everything," and George Dawson shows how true this is. He said ...

Article: George Dawson.(102-year-old man who recently ...
The Economist (US);  July 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ...FOR the first 98 years of his life George Dawson could not read or write. He was persuaded ... century had been based on slavery. George Dawson was the grandson of a slave. So ... with educationalists and reformists, George Dawson was adopted by what might be called ...

Article: TRIBUTES PAID TO GEORGE DAWSON MLA.
Newtonabbey Times (Portadown, Northern Ireland);  May 10, 2007 ;     697 words ...TRIBUTES have been paid to DUP MLA George Dawson who died on Monday after an illness ... of our esteemed friend and colleague George Dawson and on behalf of the officers and members ... saddened to learn of the untimely death of George Dawson. While his passing is a loss to his ...

Article: George Dawson
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 7, 2001 ;     310 words ...George Dawson Literacy advocate Saturday, July 7, 2001 Dallas -- George Dawson, a slave's grandson who championed literacy by learning to read at age 98, died Thursday night, his family said. He was 103. Dawson did more than put three ...

Article: George Dawson Dies; Learned To Read at 98, Urged ...
The Washington Post;  July 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ...George Dawson, 103, a slave's grandson who championed literacy after learning to read at the age of 98, died July 5 in Dallas after a fall ...

Article: Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Dawson, and the control ...
Nineteenth-Century Prose;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Emerson as lecturer in Manchester in 1847-1848 with the more sustained engagement in the city by the British Carlylean George Dawson illuminates the degree to which the ambivalence that greeted Emerson derived from a broader conflict over the function of ...