Padlet timeline of the key moments in powell's life by Anilah Lyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut HARD WORK en-us 2022-11-21 16:36:21 UTC 2022-11-28 16:19:17 UTC hello@padlet.com anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2392900366 April 5, 1937: Colin Luther Powell is born in New York City

Powell was born in the Harlem borough of New York City to Luther, a shipping clerk, and Maud Ariel (McCoy) Powell, a seamstress. Both of his parent were immigrants from Jamaica.


]]> 2022-11-21 16:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2392900366 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394432960 1954:Powell graduates from Morris High School.While a student, Powell worked at a baby furniture store and learned to speak Yiddish from the Jewish shopkeepers.


]]> 2022-11-22 16:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394432960 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394434389 1958: Powell graduates from the City College of New York, is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army.

Despite earning average grades on his way to a degree in Geology, Powell was a star member of the school’s ROTC, earning the corps’ top rank, cadet colonel. Following graduation, he is sent to Fort Benning in Georgia for basic training, then assigned as a platoon leader in West Germany.

]]> 2022-11-22 16:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394434389 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394436207 1962: Powell serves his first tour of duty in the Vietnam War.While working as an advisor to the South Vietnamese Army, Powell was wounded by a Viet Cong booby trap by stepping on a sharpened, buried piece of bamboo. The injury resulted in a large infection, ending his first tour in Vietnam.

]]> 2022-11-22 16:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394436207 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394437089 1971: Powell earns his Master of Business Administration from Georgetown University. At this point in his military career, he holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.]]> 2022-11-22 16:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2394437089 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400496226 1983: Powell is named the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.


]]> 2022-11-28 16:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400496226 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400497413 1987: President Ronald Reagan names Powell his National Security Advisor.


]]> 2022-11-28 16:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400497413 anilahlyles https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400499615 Powell's life ends by cancer he was a good man.]]> 2022-11-28 16:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/anilahlyles/qwf1tgtgfa5btrut/wish/2400499615