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What do Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, and Emeril Lagasse have in common? They all worked at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston before rising to fame (or notoriety). Ho Chi Minh worked as a baker in the hotel's kitchen in the early 20th century, decades before becoming involved in politics and revolution in his native Vietnam. Malcolm X worked as a busboy in the 1940s. He would later be known as an activist for black Americans, though he was a black separatist who opposed the integration
What do Ho Chi Minh, Malcolm X, and Emeril Lagasse have in common? They all worked at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston before rising to fame (or notoriety). Ho Chi Minh worked as a baker in the hotel's kitchen in the early 20th century, decades before becoming involved in politics and revolution in his native Vietnam. Malcolm X worked as a busboy in the 1940s. He would later be known as an activist for black Americans, though he was a black separatist who opposed the integration campaigns o…