This link. So far, from 1852 onward, with the exception of Rosa Parks only white men; no women, no Hispanic people, not even Sitting Bull.
Not Jerry Garcia. Not B.B. King. Not Martin Luther King. Not Marconi. Not Tesla. Not Samuel Morse. Not Alexander Graham Bell.
Not Babe Ruth. Not J.P. Morgan. No Rockefeller.
No Nobel laureates. No vaccine developers.
Not Caesar Chevez. Not Vince Lombardi. No Catholic Cardinals. No Rabbi.
Not Brandeis. Not Justice Warren. Not Truman. Not Einstein.
Not Justice Holmes. Neither Franklin nor Theodore Roosevelt. Not Justice Douglas.
No Abolitionists. Not Ezra Taft Benson who headed an entire church. Not Emily Dickinson.
No Suffragettes. Neither Wright brother. Not Chief Seattle. Not Crazy Horse. Not Lewis. Not Clark. Not John Muir.
Not John Glenn, nor any other astronaut. Not Admiral Rickover. Not Feynman. Not Milton Friedman.
Not Hawthorne. Not Tennessee Williams. Not Herman Melville. Not Poe. Not Mark Twain. Not Malcolm. No union leaders.
Not Pulitzer. Not Leland Stanford. Not Ayn Rand. Not Eli Whitney. Not P.T. Barnum. Not General Leslie Groves. Nor General Grant. Not Gen. Smedley Butler. Not Edison. Not Cyrus McCormick. Not Smith. Not Wesson.
Not George Washington Carver, nor Norman Borlaug.
But a guy who made a living preaching?
So?
What about Sinclair Lewis who wrote a book about a guy making a living preaching?
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As to Franklin Graham, I juxtapose Charles Martin Hall, child of missionaries who did something useful with his life. Something of clear, tangible value to the world.
