I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.
Josef Albers, Artist (1888) |
William Allingham, Poet (1821) |
Wyatt Earp, Public Servant (1848) |
Al Edwards, Politician (1937) |
Adolf Eichmann, Criminal (1906) |
James Van Fleet, Soldier (1892) |
Adolf Galland, Soldier (1912) |
Neil LaBute, Director (1963) |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poet (1907) |
Arthur Balfour, Statesman (1930) |
John DeLorean, Businessman (2005) |
Frank Lane, Businessman (1981) |