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States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance” This law marks it territory over any University/colleges in the United States. Women Rights On December 10th, 1869 in the the province of Wyoming get first suffrage law passed. Colorado is the first states to give women the right to vote (1893). Finally in 1920 which hasn’t been 100…

Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation was an important act ,the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by president Abraham Licoln , allowing the freedom of all in the rebelling territories of the confederacy and allowing Blacks enlistment in the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, free Black people in general, were ready to fight on behalf of the Union, yet they were prevented from doing so. Popular racial stereotypes and discrimination against Blacks in the…

Poe Stories, Robert Giordano). Through the forty year span of Edgar Allan Poe´s life, though tragic as it was, he wrote amazing stories as an outlet for his losses. Edgar Allan Poe was born to David and Elizabeth Poe on January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts. By the age of two years, according to Siminoff, Poe's mother died of tuberculosis in 1811 in Richmond, Virginia (David Siminoff, Shmoop). Because…

novelists and poets they had very different lives. On January 19,1809 Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston Massachusetts. As a child, Poe had money issues while he was living with John Allen who was a tobacco exporter after his parents died. In 1827 Poe wrote his first collection of poems, Tamerlane, and other poems which were issued in this year. Poe became famous for his horror, mystery, and…

Brazelton has done years of research to prove his theory. In 1918 T. Berry Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. Brazelton is known as a pediatrician and author, he graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, the year of 1943. A few years later, in 1945 Brazelton moved to Boston to serve his…

got to go to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia his junior year of high school from 1944-1948. Then, he went to Crozer Theological Seminary a religious institution in Upland, Pennsylvania from 1948-1951. Finally, Martin went to Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts from…

African-American subjects in her own artwork. However, in the process she faced many obstacles. Despite this, Jones continues to be viewed as the link between the greatest that is the Harlem Renaissance, and contemporary expression. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on November 3rd of 1905, young Lois Mailou Jones always had artistic abilities under her belt. Creating art felt natural to her, and she loved to paint creatively. Initially, Jones was used to painting landscapes of Paris. However, after…

Bradford, William. Mayflower Compact(1620). MS, 24 Beacon st, State House Room 341,Boston,MA 02133. This surviving account, signed by the 21 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, is the first written framework of government in what is now the USA. This only surviving account, the compact, was made to prevent hatred and dissent amongst Puritans and those Pilgrims who had landed a few days later. The purpose of the compact was to also create a civil body politic to enforce…

continues to drink as his health dwindles and his time is nearing due to exposure of tuberculosis. After Frost turned nine, William dies of tuberculosis on May 5, 1885. Isabelle then after moved the family to the culturally diverse city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence has always had a reputation as the “Immigrant City” for seeming to swell more and more every year with people migrating to the…

“It was a such pretty day that day, it was a really picture perfect sky, blue skies, the marathon feeling is that everybody is really upbeat and excited,” said Melinda Arredondo, when describing the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15th of 2013. Carlos and Melinda Arredondo stood at the finish line of the marathon with 400 small American flags to hand out to finished runners in honor of their two sons, Alex and Brian, who had passed away. Alex Arredondo was killed in a sniper attack in Iraq at 20…