Tandy Freeman has been in the bull riding and rodeo world for over 20 years. Tandy Freeman was first awarded in 2011, the Jim Shoulder Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a non-bull rider who has made a significant contribution to the sport. Since 1995, Dr. Tandy Freeman, the official on-site doctor for the PBR, has crisscrossed the country with the PBR’s Built Ford Tough Series, examining and treating athletes at every stop. He is also the Medical Director of Justin Sportsmedicine, which services the NFR. Freeman’s professional commitment and dedication to Western sports athletes have led to him receiving the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award in 2008 and being named the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Texas Circuit…
Peter Minuit Peter Minuit a man that had a huge part in helping bring America into the land we know today by being apart of the founding of the original thirteen colonies. Minuit’s birthdate is not exactly known but studies believe that it was somewhere between the years of 1580 and 1589. On the date of August the 20, 1613 Minuits life changed forever. He married the love his life Gertrude Raedts. The Raedts family was a very wealthy family, some believe that being apart of this family helped Minuit start his life as a broker.…
James Bridger was born on March 17, 1804. He was an Indian fighter, fur trapper, guide, and a trader. His father was a very happy innkeeper; he later became a fur trapper. James had three Indian wives over his life time James Bridger tale was just like the actual death of Jedidiah Smith. James Bridger died on the Santa Fe Trail, because he was under the lances of Comanche Indians.…
She was born September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi. This strong woman is known as a civil rights activist. The activist now lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1960, this woman became the first african-american to attend an all-white elementary school at the age of six. This historic activist is known as Ruby Nell Bridges Hall.…
This paper will inform you all about Bill Robinson and his carrer. Bill Robinson as known as “Bojangles” was a huge iconic African- American tap dancer and actor during the Harlem Renisance. Bojangles was best known for his Broadway performances and film roles.…
Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732 in Berkeley County, South Carolina. His parents were Gabriel Marion and Esther Marion. He was a small energetic kid and also the youngest in his family. When he was at the mere age of six, his family moved to a plantation in St. George so he could attend a school in Georgetown. Then, when he was fifteen, Francis embarked on a career as a sailor.…
Banneker eventually had to sell off much of his farm and other belongings of his just so he could continue to live in his log cabin in Ellicott City. (mdhs.org). Sadly on October 9, 1806 Benjamin Banneker passed away in his sleep, just shy of his 75th birthday. He had written out in his will where he wanted all of his belongings to go. All of the items he had been loaned were returned to his nephew.…
Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell. His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. Bryant and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead, his boyhood home, is now a museum.…
Theodore Judson Jemison born August 1st 1918 to November 15th 2013. T.J Jemison was president of the National Baptist Convention USA. This organization was the largest African-American organization. Jemison made sure the Baptiste World Center in Nashville Tennessee, was constructed, this was one of the first headquarters of predominantly black churches in the USA. In 1953, while minister of a large church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jemison helped lead the first civil rights boycott of segregated seating in public bus service.…
Born Frederick Augustus Bailey in Baltimore, Maryland 1818. Frederick struggled through childhood due to the slavery conditions at the time. In 1824, six year old Frederick Bailey moved from his home in Baltimore, Maryland to a plantation in the country called the Wye House. Just two years later, Frederick was sold off to another slave owner back in Baltimore where he was taught to read by his owner’s wife, Lucretia Auld. The learning process was a struggle do to Mr. Auld's harsh slave rules.…
Henry Bibb born in 10 May 1815 in Shelby Country, Kentucky. His father James Bibb was state senator, mother Mildred Jackson was a slave work for Willard Gatewood, so Henry was a slave too, he need work for neighboring farm and his wages were used to pay for a girl to school, because she was the successor of a widower. As a young man, Henry was sold to another man, Mr.Vires. He wasn’t a good man, he was very cruelty, so Henry would tried ran away so many days, but every time Mr. Vires would caught him but he never gave up.…
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.…
The One Arm of a Believer “That growth is awesome and you know it’s exciting to be part of that growth,” said Pete Gray when he was talking about how his ability to play baseball through many hardships (Gray, 1945). Peter J. Gray Wyshner was a baseball player in the mid-1900’s. Pete was a hometown boy from Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. The only difference he had from other baseball players is that Pete Gray’s…
Frederick August Washington Bailey was born into slavery around 1818 in Talbot County Maryland. He did not know the real year or the date of his birthday, but decided to celebrate it on February 14th. At a budding age he was chosen to live inside the residence of the plantation owners in which one of the owners may have been his father. His infrequent mother died when he was only ten years old. In one’s opinion, he did not grow up in a good environment.…
U.S. History William Howard Taft was overweight, but he made a great president. To be exact he was our 27th President of the United States, and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father Alphonso Taft was Republican, who also served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. His mother was a graduate of Mount Holyoke, Louisa Torrey.…