"Moscow Is Almost Certain: Anastasia Died with Tzar's Family", by Michael Specter, New York Times International (newspaper of New York, New York, USA), September 7, 1994, page A6.…
On the day of October 6th, 1917, a great civil rights activist was born. Fannie Lou Townsend is her name, born to the couple of James and Ella Townsend. Fannie grew up in rural Montgomery County, Mississippi and is the youngest of 20 children. The family was poor which caused Fannie to drop out of school by the 3rd grade. From 1944 to 1962 she would pick cotton for W. D. Marlow, but when Fannie was 16 she caught a case of Polio. As a result, she could no longer work in the fields, Marlow caught wind of the fact that Fannie was literate and made her the record keeper as well as a cook and a maid of his plantation. 1945 was the year that Fannie Lou Townsend, became Fannie Lou Hamer. She married Perry “Pap” Hamer a tractor driver on the Marlow…
This paper is about Margaret Cochran Corbin. She was the first wounded woman of the American Revolution. She was a strong woman and an interesting person. Margaret Cochran Corbin was a woman who fought in the American Revolution war that was her job. This paper is about her early life, adult life, and contribution to the Revolutionary War.…
When she was little, she wanted to practice ballet while her little brother wanted to learn Tae Kwon Do.…
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of Irish, English, French, and German descent. Sandra grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister, chef Gesine Bullock-Prado, and spent much of her childhood in Nuremberg, Germany. She often performed in the children's chorus of whatever production her mother was in. That singing talent later came in handy for her role as an aspiring country singer in The Thing Called Love (1993). Her family moved back to the Washington area when she was adolescent. She later enrolled in East Carolina…
Mae Carol Jemison or better known as Mae C. Jemison was an American engineer, physician, and a NASA astronaut. She became known as the first African-American woman to travel in space. Mae was born on October 17 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. When she was around three years old, her parents, Charlie and Dorothy Jemison, move to Chicago in order to provide her and her siblings a better education.…
In the Matter of Annette B., the father made periodic and insignificant efforts to find his child once his confinement was over with. There was inadequate evidence to disprove a conclusion of abandonment. There was very little the dad could do while incarcerated. The grandmother of the child either could not or would not help locate the mother, and the Department of Social Services in New York wouldn’t help the grandmother. Not one thing in records the records recommends that the father had been notified of the facts that the mother had moved to Orange County, New York, or that his daughter was in the custody of the State. However, it still should have encouraged the father to one way or another try to track down his daughter to keep contact with her.…
The middle sibling is Leticia Rosales, born on January 12, 1978 in Huntington Park, California. Growing up she always found trouble, not major trouble always want attention. At age 17 she came out to the family that she was a lesbian. She struggled with not being accepted in the family. She eventually left home at 18 years of age to live with her girlfriend. She attended Riverside community College for a few years. She ended her relationship with her girlfriend due to domestic violence. She struggled with some depression due to this break up and due to a broken ankle. She then focused on working fulltime as a project assistant. She has kept her position as a project assistant for 15 years and works for a great company. She started a new relationship…
One of my personal favorite historical figures would be Mae Carol Jemison. She overcame the normalcy of a white man in space by becoming the first African American woman to go into space. First, I would ask her “how did you do it?” I really would like to know how she overcame all the pressure and abuse of being different in her field of study. Not many women during that time tried to get into the study of science. I admire Jemison for pursuing what she loved to do and not quitting because it was harder on her than the rest. Secondly, I would ask “would you do it all over again?” I would love to knw if it’s worth it to go through so much to be where she is now. If she would go through all her struggles to become an astronaut once more if she…
Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn but raised mostly in Chicago. In 1916, her family moved to New York and she went with them, to pursue a career as a revolutionary journalist. She became a regular correspondent for publications such as the Call and the New Masses. She got involved in the issues of the day including women's rights, free love, and birth control. In 1917 she joined women in front of the White House, who were protesting treatment of women suffragists in jail; she wound up serving thirty days in jail.…
“The Dakotahs, or Nadowessious were doubtless a valorous people considered from an Indian standpoint”-Annie Tallent. This quote symbolizes how Annie felt about the Indians. She saw the Indians as a savage, and obstacle to civilizing forces whose righteousness and benighted destiny was self evident (Mackintosh). Annie Tallent was an important figure in American History because of what she accomplished in her lifetime.…
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Harris (1915–1959) was an African American jazz singer and songwriter. Her singing style, strongly inspired by jazz musicians, lead to a new way of using word choice and rhythm. A critic named John Bush once wrote that Holiday "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She only co-wrote a few songs, but a number of them have become jazz standards that many musicians strive to live up to. Some of these standards were set by songs of hers such as "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing "Easy Living", "Good Morning Heartache", and "Strange Fruit", a protest song which became one of her standards and was made famous with her…
The lady that sings the blues was known as Billie Holiday or Lady Day to many. Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz singer in American history. Billie started out as a young girl who, like her idols of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong turned whatever material she was given into a piece of art of her own. Billie Holiday stated “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” Billie Holiday sang as if she knew her music had so much emotional power that she had to distance herself from it…
Lorraine Hansberry was born into a wealthy family in the woodlaw neighborhood in the south side of chicago, on May 19th 1930. She was the last of the four children in her family. Her parents Carl and Nannie perry were very politically active and jumped right into opportunities. For example Hansberry's parents crossed the word “Negro” off of her birth certificate (Racial identities of newborns were required than) and wrote “black”.Lorraine was in a family that was very comfortable economically. When she was five, She received a white fur coat for christmas. Her parents told her to wear it to school, but when she did so, the other students beat her up in order to get the coat. Which is ironic because Hansberry would rather be poor like the other students and disliked being known as rich or wealthy and would do things like wear keys around her neck to be the same as the other children, only because she could only…
Susan B. Anthony, was a women who influenced America and dedicated her entire life on helping many women to get voting rights and opened many doors for women to voice out their opinions and fight for their rights. Women back then were only seen as wives, mothers, and caretakers, but never pictured as being able to make an opinion on a political topic, or even vote. Anthony risked being jailed for testing society’s limits and pushing boundaries to prove women can be more than just a mother. National Woman Suffrage Association played a huge role in getting women the chance to fight for their rights. A woman so dedicated that she and many other women activists during her time changed history forever. It has not even been over a hundred year since women have had the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony revolutionized life for women today by fighting for equal rights.…