“He Martin Luther King Jr. knew that character and ability are formed in the home,” Colin Powell has written, “and in the school.”

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Colin Powell the future chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff was born in New York to Jamaican immigrant parents on April 5, 1937.

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Colin Powell recalls his childhood as a happy one, although his neighborhood of Hunt’s Point in New York’s South Bronx has since become impoverished.

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Hunt’s Point was a relatively prosperous working-class neighborhood of blacks many, like the Powells, of West Indian descent Latinos, Jews, and other ethnic groups.

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Powell’s parents Luther and Maud who was born McKoy take most of the credit for the family’s success, according to their famous son.

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On several occasions, he has said, “It Hunt’s Point was a neat place to grow up.”

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The young Colin Powell worked part-time in a store owned by a Jewish family, and there he learned to speak some Yiddish the language of eastern European Jews from the old German word for Jewish

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The Powells attended St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church the Episcopal Church is the national church of England and was the church of most Jamaicans

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Among his cousins are several state and federal judges, an ambassador to Sierra Leone a country in West Africa, a psychologist, two Oxford graduates, a leading aerospace engineer, and one of the nation’s richest African-American businessmen.

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His sister Barbara was U.S. ambassador to Malaysia she also became an assistant secretary of state

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In college, Powell joined the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ROTC and he became a second lieutenant when he graduated in 1958.

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Powell said later about his school career, “gave me an insight into the fundamentals of government and a deep respect for our democratic system.”

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The meeting will be held Tuesday at (eight fifteen, 8:15) P.M.

More than (500, five hundred) people attended the rally.

In Act I, Scene (i, one), a farmer and his wife are discussing how they will make ends meet after a drought has destroyed their crops.

In lines (66–72, sixty-six to seventy-two) of the scene, the oldest daughter explains why she has decided to leave the farm.

The daughter, one of (4, four) children, longs for a job in the city.

The whale-watching boat leaves from this dock at (six, 6) o’clock.

The (49th, forty-ninth) state to join the United States was Alaska.

Annette was one of (twelve, 12) students who were recognized for outstanding effort in cleaning up the park.

(Eighty-five, 85) percent of our students graduate from high school.

The judge fined the company ($30,500, thirty thousand five hundred dollars) a day until they stopped releasing chemicals into the lake.

The art museum is at 600 (2nd, Second) Avenue.

The university library owns more than (nine million three hundred thirty-nine thousand five hundred sixty; 9,339,560) books.

On election day the polls will open at (7:00, seven) A.M.

Jana knocked on the door of Apartment (3, three).

He was the (25th, twenty-fifth) player chosen in the draft.