Edith Goldberg: An Unforgettable Journey “Edith Goldberg is one of 10,000 mainly Jewish children who escaped Nazi persecution on the Kindertransport scheme,” (The Yorkshire Post: Edith Goldberg). She went through watching her father and uncle being taken away by police. They eventually returning home, but soon after she lost her mother and father when they were deported.…
Industrialization led to many Americans working in factories that had horrible conditions and low pay. The idea of labor unions was slow to take hold however workers still went on strikes. The Molly Maguires were a group that used violence to show their outrage of the working conditions. “The Mollies used intimidaton, beatings, and killings to right perceived wrongs against Irish workers.” 771…
Close your eyes and imagine you are a very famous deaf actress and they just called your name as the winner of the Tony award. The whole audience is clapping and screaming for you but you can't hear it. This is exactly what Phyllis Frelich went through. Phyllis Frelich, the first deaf tony award winner, was born into the Pisces(zodiac sign) family on a leap year in 1944(February 29th) in Devils Lake, North Dakota.…
Hana Brady It is sad what Hana Brady had to endure and how she died during the Holocaust. Hana Brady was born on May 16, 1931 (“Hana and George Brady.”) in Nove Mesto. She had blond hair and blue eyes. Hana went to a public school with her older brother, George (“Hana Brady”). Hana liked wrestling with George, sneaking candy from the family's store and swinging from the tree in her front yard (G, Julia.).…
Lizzie : The Life and Times Elizabeth ( Lizzie ) Johnson was a student , teacher, cattle queen,wife, and financer. She has accomplished all of these titles and more successfully. Elizabeth Johnson has also been an amazing role model to many people around the world. Years pass by and the name of Elizabeth Johnson continues to be well known and for good reason at that. Early in Life Elizabeth Johnson was born in the year of 1840.…
The detective saw an opportunity. She grabbed the waitress's arm and said “You are coming with me, do not worry you are not going to jail. We just have to ask you some questions.” It was a cold winter morning in New York City, America.…
Alisha Hardy Alisha Hardy, who also goes by Lisha, is an eighteen-year-old Choctaw Native American woman from Wright City, Oklahoma. She is a student at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where she is studying nursing. In high school Lisha was an honors student and played softball. She is a very active member in her tribe’s community and her role as young Choctaw woman is very important. She enjoys taking part in cultural activities and keeping her tribes customs and culture alive.…
Stephani Townes African Americans in the South during Reconstruction After the civil war, the union won and the african americans rapidly moved into Atlanta. Between 1860 and 1870 the black population increased tremendously. It went from 20 percent to 46 percent, from nineteen hundred to merely ten thousand in numbers. Majority if this growing population was black women. Women that had been sold off to slave owners and relocated in different cities, came back to find family members, husbands, and friends.…
Dorothea Dix She was born in Hampden Maine, April 4, 1802. She was the eldest of three children and her father was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. When she was 12 she went to live with her grandmother in Boston, then she went to live with her aunt in Worcester, Massachusetts. She came back and started teaching at age 14. In 1819 she went back to boston and funded the dix mansion, a school for girls, along with a charity for poor girls so they could go to school for free and they got just as much education than the richer girls did, she believed that no one should have more education than one another.…
The year is 1841. A 39-year-old woman is teaching Sunday school in a womens’ jail in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. As she teaches, she is consistently appalled by the treatment of mentally ill inmates. This experience starts a crusade that lasts the next 46 years until the day of her death. This woman is Dorothea Lynde Dix.…
For this paper I will be answering the question, “how did the American Civil War effect Elizabeth Val Lew”. I have always had a strong interest in the Civil War. I am particularly interested in the Battle of Gettysburg and Michigan’s involvement in the war. Recently I have become interested in the role women had during the war as well. During the war many women enlisted in positions that were mainly set aside for men, for example nurses.…
I know we have all heard about the great Thomas Jefferson. The one who was the third president of this country, wrote the constitution, and was a significant part of the Louisiana Purchase. What a lot of people don’t know about is his black slave mistress Sally Hemmings. Sally Hemmings was a biracial slave that Thomas Jefferson owned. She was his first wife (Martha Jefferson) half sister.…
As a state being described as a big-buckled outdoor ethic and intolerance of alternative lifestyles, as said by a New York Times reporter John M. Glionna, an older man named Sissy Goodwin defies these descriptions just be simply getting dressed each day. 67 year old male Sissy Goodwin is a cross-dressing cowboy from the state of Wyoming who likes to wear women's clothes, Sissy is one of many that defy what other people think about Wyoming. In the minds of people that don’t live in Wyoming, they see the state as a cowboy, farming, masculine, tough, and homophobic state. These things are simply not true about Wyoming, the state is just like other in ways of dress and actions. In some cases this can be true you walked downtown…
Meet Maria Wills: A Single Mother Paving her Own Way in Entrepreneurship and Entertainment Maria Wills was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Princes George’s County, Maryland. Wills Attended Drexel University and is a single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Juliana. Ambitious and forward thinking, Maria started her event planning company, Self-Explanatory Productions, at the young age of 18. In addition to raising her daughter and event planning, Wills wears many other hats including Entrepreneur, Host, Motivational Speaker, Media Correspondent for Girl Power Hour Radio, Radio Personality, and Blogger.…
On the morning of his execution, Alexander Campbell declared his innocence, insisting that he was "nowhere near the scene of either crime." Then he slapped his right hand against the wall of the cell leaving a dirty handprint. "There is proof of my words," he added. "That mark will never be wiped out. There it will remain forever to shame the county that is hangin' an innocent man” (Kashatus).…