James Mott was one of the men that helped with the convention. He was involved in many of the same events and convention as Lucretia Mott was involved in. He was a Quaker leader, educator and a businessman. Mott supported and became active in the anti-slavery movement and women’s rights. He became a teacher at Nine Partners School in Poughkeepsie, New York as his father was the superintendent.…
The Life and Times of James McQueen McIntosh On 1 February 1828 at Fort Brooke which is located close to what is currently known as Tampa, Florida two parents were blessed with a son who had an interesting future ahead of him. James McQueen McIntosh was to become a General in the confederate army, and fight not side by side with his brother John in the Union, but fight on the opposite side with his Arkansas troops for the confederate cause. Colonel James Simmons McIntosh, and Eliza McIntosh- Shumate were blessed with a son named James McQueen McIntosh who later became Brigadier General for the 1st and 2nd Arkansas mounted rifles of the confederate Army fighting in 2 battles Wilson’s Creek, and Pea Ridge. James McIntosh was from a well-known…
When one considers the actions of the famous Christopher Columbus or Amerdigo Vespucci, one is normally opted to recall one or both of them as the man who discovered the United States of America. However, as history clearly shows, this is not the case for either one of these famous explorers; the lands that would become the United States had been discovered and inhabited long before either of their voyages. The Native Americans, ironically misbranded as Indians by Columbus, can trace their history of this land back much further than the colonists are able. It is no surprise, therefore, that the Native Americans are a popular subject among colonial authors. Three authors who write extensively concerning these original settlers of American Land…
Dr Charles Nelson Perkins (Charlie Perkins) 16 June 1936 – 19th October 2000 64 years old. Background Dr Charles Perkins was an Australian Aboriginal activist, Soccer player and administrator. Born in Alice springs near Aritunga to a Kalkadoon mother and an Irish father, he was the first ever Aboriginal Australian to graduate from the University of Sydney (Wikipedia, 2017.) Career Milestones The proclaimed Australian Living national treasure began playing Soccer for Port Thistle in Adelaide in 1950 before his talents lead him overseas to trial for Liverpool F.C (Indigenous Australia, 2017).…
Many of the people interviewed from Little Rock, Arkansas were born around the time the war ended, so they did not experience the horrors of slavery themselves. The stories of their parents being all they have to share. Most of the former slaves moved to Arkansas to farm; these ex-slaves kept farming occupations until their retirement. Former slaves from Little Rock, Arkansas shared the same attitude towards work ethic; they were all willing to work hard.…
There has been so many times where LeBron james has changed the game. The greatest player of the NBA.James has always been known to be relentless driving to the basket for a massive dunk. LeBron has made so many new ways for players to wield power. Nobody has been quite an athlete as james has been in his years. He can control the game with power and great dominance or he can take the game quickness,speed and agility.…
John Smith was born in 1580 in Lincolnshire, England. He eventually made his way to America to help govern the British colony of Jamestown. In his early life, John decided on a life of combat and served with the English Army abroad. He worked as a soldier for hire. Smith eventually embarked on a campaign with the Turks in Hungary.…
James H. Morrison: Rights for All Louisiana Congressman James Morrison, serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1967, did not fit the mold of a Deep South white politician in the 20th century. A moderate on civil rights issues, rather than a typical staunch segregationist, he supported the important Voting Rights Act of 1965, which aimed to extend a voice to voiceless southern blacks. In voting for this act, Morrison lost re-election to Congress in 1966 (“J.H Morrison”). Morrison voted for the Act, exemplifying political courage as described by John F. Kennedy in Profiles in Courage when he “triumphed over all personal and political considerations” and followed his conscience (Kennedy 18). The Voting Rights…
The most fascinating fact I learned today was about the Jefferson Memorial’s location in Washington, D.C. Even though this building’s placement looks very ordinary, there was a lot of controversy surrounding the placement of the memorial, and the historical connection with the other testaments to our founding fathers. Back in the 1900s, there was a commision to create a memorial honoring our 38th President Theodore Roosevelt’s contributions to American History. There was even a contest, and the architect John Russell Pope’s design was chosen for the memorial.…
It was a widely held belief that the frontier was open for the taking. A belief not only incorrect, but simply one of ignorance. Everell Flecher’s youthful imagination and inaccurate education in Hope Leslie is fractured and set straight by a single story. He learns from Magawisca, a captive Native American, that the frontier is made up of false images and stories and thus it has become this “imaginal place” (Schneekloth 210). Young Flecher was so caught up in what he thought was right that, when he learned the truth, it vexed him so much that he cried.…
William Henry Johnson, commonly known as just Henry Johnson, was an American Soldier during World War I. Henry was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1892. During his early teens moved to Albany, New York (United States Army, n.d.). Before enlisting in the United States Army, Henry was a redcap porter for the Albany Union Station. When he enlisted on June 5, 1917, he was assigned to an all-black National Guard unit. Henry was a war hero during World War I in which he saved his comrades lives’ and successfully defended his unit from the enemy.…
James Fenimore Cooper has a past in the church. He was very active in his hometown church. Later in his life he took on leadership and clergy roles there. He donated a lot of money and supervised the redesigning of the church as his own expense. Also later in his life he was confirmed by the church.…
The act, passed by the United States in 1830, moved Indians with territory in the states to West of the Mississippi, which was unpopulated by Westerners (Library par. 1). This ensured no violence would ensue between United States Citizens and the Indians, and kept them separated with White dominance as Cooper’s novel suggests. Another piece of evidence is the widespread acceptance of The Last of the Mohicans, “the popularity of the novel is also evidence that Cooper’s representation of Indian-White relations won the approval of the American reading public” (Robinson 71). All though, overtime views of the public tend to…
The saying “there are always two sides to every story”. William Apess was an advocate of civil rights for Native Americans. James Fenimore Cooper was a writer who aided in developing the future course of American fiction. Apes and Cooper writing showed Native American in different ways to the readers. The visual arts and literature display in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century America has provided revealing guides to assumptions about the Native American.…
INTRODUCTION The lady we are about to introduce you is some one exceptional. She is determined, persistent and she gets the job done. She is the next Governor of this great state of Texas, Ms. Jane “Bitzi” Johnson Miller.…