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Susan asks…

who played ugly bettys dad and what has he been jn?

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The actors name is Tony Plana. In Ugly Betty his name is Ignacio Suarez he is a Cuban-American actor. He was born in 1953 and is married to Ada Maris (they have 2 children, Alejandro and Isabel.) For his role in Ugly Betty he won a satellite best supporting actor award in 2006. He has starred in the following films: Zoot Suit (1981) Madame X (1981 - for TV) An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) El Norte (1983) Valley Girl (1983) Salvador (1986) ¡Three Amigos! (1986) Born in East L.A. (1987) Romero (1989) The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989) Havana (1990) The Rookie (1990) JFK (1991) One Good Cop (1991) Nixon (1995) Lone Star (1996) One Eight Seven (1997) Primal Fear (1997) Half Past Dead (2002) Picking Up the Pieces (2000) El Muerto (post-production) The Lost City (2005) Goal! (2005) He has acted, directed and written for television in series, mini-series, and specials such as Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Resurrection Boulevard, Commander in Chief, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The West Wing, 24, Cagney & Lacey and many others. He has also done a voiceover in Grim Fandango (1998) He now teaches acting at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Rio Hondo College. His website can be found at www.tonyplana.com/index.htm

Ruth asks…

Where did Booker T. Washington grow up?

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Virginia and West Virginia were early homes for Booker T (cool name) instead of my word vomit here is a good link and snippets...... Http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbooker.htm """http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAbooker.htm Booker Taliaferro was born a mulatto slave in Franklin Country on 5th April, 1856. His father was an unknown white man and his mother, the slave of James Burroughs, a small farmer in Virginia. Later, his mother married the slave, Washington Ferguson. When Booker entered school he took the name of his stepfather and became known as Booker T. Washington. After the Civil War the family moved to Malden, West Virginia. Ferguson worked in the salt mines and at the age of nine Booker found employment as a salt-packer. A year later he became a coal miner (1866-68) before going to work as a houseboy for the wife of Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the mines. She encouraged Booker to continue his education and in 1872 he entered the Hampton Agricultural Institute. The principal of the institute was Samuel Armstrong, an opponent of slavery who had been commander of African American troops during the Civil War. Armstrong believed that it was important that the freed slaves received a practical education. Armstrong was impressed with Washington and arranged for his tuition to be paid for by a wealthy white man. Armstrong became Washington's mentor. Washington described Armstrong in his autobiography as "a great man - the noblest rarest human being it has ever been my privilege to meet". Armstrong's views of the development of character and morality and the importance of providing African Americans with a practical education had a lasting impact on Washington's own philosophy. After graduating from the Hampton Agricultural Institute in 1875 Washington returned to Malden and found work with a local school. After a spell as a student at Wayland Seminary in 1878 he was employed by Samuel Armstrong to teach in a program for Native Americans. In 1880, Lewis Adams, a black political leader in Macon County, agreed to help two white Democratic Party candidates, William Foster and Arthur Brooks, to win a local election in return for the building of a Negro school in the area. Both men were elected and they then used their influence to secure approval for the building of the Tuskegee Institute. Samuel Armstrong, principal of the successful Hampton Agricultural Institute, was asked to recommend a white teacher to take charge of this school. However, he suggested that it would be a good idea to employ Washington instead. The Tuskegee Negro Normal Institute was opened on the 4th July, 1888. The school was originally a shanty building owned by the local church. The school only received funding of $2,000 a year and this was only enough to pay the staff. Eventually Washington was able to borrow money from the treasurer of the Hampton Agricultural Institute to purchase an abandoned plantation on the outskirts of Tuskegee and built his own school. """ http://www.franklincountyva.org/ Peace. //-------------- O . I . O -------------- \

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