American culture

American culture

Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.

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Tammy Wynette

Culture; American culture

(1942 – 1998) Born Virginia Wynette Pugh in Mississippi and raised by grandparents who picked cotton, Tammy became the First Lady of country music (although the “real” First Lady, Hillary Rodham ...

Curtis Mayfield

Culture; American culture

(1942 – 1999) African American singer and composer. Draw ing on gospel roots, his smooth Chicago, IL sound and social vision produced anthems of civil rights and social change in the 1960s, including ...

Robert De Niro

Culture; American culture

(born 1943) A consummate actor whose roles have often explored the meaning of urban ethnic (Italian American) life in America, especially in collaboration with directors Martin Scorsese and Francis ...

William Bennett

Culture; American culture

(born 1943) A former philosophy professor and chairperson for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Bennett was an outspoken public servant through his four years of work as US Secretary of ...

Billie Jean King

Culture; American culture

(born 1943) Born Billie Jean Moffit, in Long Beach, California, King won six Wimbledon championships, four US Open titles, was ranked the no. 1 women’s tennis player in the world for five years and, ...

H.Rap Brown

Culture; American culture

(born 1943) Civil rights activist turned militant who succeeded Stokely Carmichael as the chairperson of SNCC in 1967. Brown continued to radicalize the organization, building on Carmichael’s call ...

Michael Cimino

Culture; American culture

(born 1943) Michael Cimino’s career exemplifies Hollywood hubris. Before age thirty Cimino coscripted the second “Dirty Harry” movie, Magnum Force (1973), starring Clint Eastwood, which examined the ...