Officially, she is the second woman to hold the title of governor in the state of Texas. However, Dorothy Ann Willis Richards is regarded by many as the first woman who earn the election for Texas's top office of governor. Thanks to many years of volunteering in numerous gubernatorial campaigns, because she was the first woman to become Travis County commissioner twice, and since she was also the first woman to serve as state treasurer, the 45th Governor of Texas earned her title. For these reasons and many more, Ann Richardson, as she was better known, won the race 1990 gubernatorial race against Clayton Williams, fair and square. Unlike former governor Miriam "Ma" Ferguson, who is often disregarded as the stand in for impeached governor James "Pa" Ferguson, Mrs. Richardson dedicated many years of her life to the local and state government, prior to her race for governor (Brandeis University).
Evelyn had a very interesting early life, in this section you will learn about her curious upbringing. Evelyn is the only child of Alexandra and Donald McLean, she was born in Beamsville, Ontario on the 13th of October in 1920. A year after her birth her family moved to Hamilton, Ontario where she later attended a private Catholic school for girls. Throughout Evelyn 's life her parents never saw eye-to-eye. Alexandra had a wicked temper, and Donald was an abusive alcoholic who constantly stole money from the Hamilton Street Railway revenues.
Dorothy day was November 8,1897 in Brooklyn Heights Neighborhood in Brooklyn NY. She died November 29, 1980. Dorothy was born into a strong, patriotic, middle class family. Her father was John day and her mother was Grace Satterlee. They both were journalist.
Mary Jane Patterson Mary Jane Patterson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her parents brought and their family to Oberlin, Ohio to find an education for their children. In 1835, Oberlin College admitted its first black student and eventually became the country’s first coed institution of higher education. It was also the first college in the country to grant women undergraduate degrees. Mary Jane Patterson studied for a year in the college’s Prepatory Department and she was the first African-American women to earn a Bachelor’s degree.
Harriet A Jacobs was born into slavery by the parents of Elijah and Delilah jacobs February 11, 1813.Harriet grew up in Edenton NC,at a very young age she was being traded back and forward following the death of her mother which lead her to become sad and alone only as a child. Harriet was a slave of former masters of Margaret horniblow,Daniel Jacobs,and Andrew Knox. Later on Harriet escaped from slavery and was later freed,she became a abolitionist speaker and reformer. Harriet Ann Jacobs was a very broken person throughout the hard times she went through as a young child based on the troubles of her mother's passing and a fact that she born into such cruel thing known as slavery and having to deal with being passed around to a different
Susan B. Anthony (Susan Brownell Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a prominent feminist author who started the movement of women’s suffrage and she was also the president of the National American Women Suffrage Association. Anthony was in favor of abolitionism as she was a fierce activist in the anti-slavery movement before the civil war. Susan Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and before becoming a famous feminist figure, she worked as a teacher. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that made her spend her time working on social causes. And her father was an owner of a local cotton mill.
During the time of the salem witch trials and the late 1980’s-1990’s during baseball's Steroid Era were two different things, but they also had one thing in common the hysteria that was brought by both of these. In the witch trials there were many of people dying and in baseball there was various amounts of people getting suspended and their chances at the hall of fame forever destroyed. Many of people know about the Salem Witch Trials as one of the most moments and years of hysteria. During this time there were many of people wrongly executed. During the 1950’s a man wrote a book called The Crucible.
Judging a person by their skin tone has always been a problem, and nobody wants to live to be judged. Many believe that skin color doesn’t matter, until society makes it matter. In today’s society, everyone can easily be judged by others and get along, but still make excuses to have differences in race, color and religion to disdain a healthy relationship. People typically have a standard of likeliness that pertain to a certain group or person. Harriet Jacobs, born in 1813 in the state of North Carolina was “born into slavery.”
I am Mica Herrin, a struggling college student from a provincial town in the middle of nowhere with a bank account that is composed mostly of some change I found in the fountain, but my lineage is a story that consists of much more. My family is vibrant and diverse, spanning across most of the west coast, the mid west, the south of the United States, as well as into northern Europe. We are a ragtag collection of farmers, intellectuals, artists, and creepy uncles all with our own unique tales of travel, wonder, and woe. My personal story begins in the Mobile Infirmary in Mobile, Alabama on July ninth, 1996. As the second child of Kevin and Darla Herrin, I spent the first three years of life in Mobile, Alabama before continuing my life journey to Dallas, Texas.
The Last Flight of Amelia Earhart 20 million people suffer from abiophobia, the fear of being on a plane. Amelia Earhart undoubtedly was not scared of planes. After working as a nurse’s aide for months in a Toronto hospital, scrubbing floors to playing tennis with patients, she then became interested in planes in 1918 at the age of twenty one. She then began spending her spare time at various airfields around Toronto watching planes land and takeoff. She accomplished so much, until an unfortunate event ended her career.
Introduction Who exactly is Amelia Earhart? Amelia Earhart is a famous female pilot who impacted many people; she is a symbol of women's rights and she showed that women can fly and do things just as well as men. Amelia was fearless and brave and liked to explore and discover. Amelia loved to break new records, and she loved to fly. Amelia Earhart inspired many human beings to be supreme; by being the best female pilot ever, she proved that women pilots are just as capable as men pilots.
Amelia Earhart’s Mysterious Death “A women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.” (Amelia Earhart) Amelia Earhart was born on July 24,1897 in Atchison Kansas.
Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939 in Ontario, Canada. She is currently 77 years old. She has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for literature; also, she has won the Booker prize five times. She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2001. Margaret is the inventor/developer of LongPen and has associated technologies which facilitate robotic writing for documents.
As my Canadian writer, I picked Margaret Atwood to create a Prezi on her history of poetry and her writings. For the reason of she was the first name on the list I recognized. Secondly, when I searched her name, she seems to be interesting to research on, and I am pleased I selected Margaret as my poet. Not to mention I learned an abundance of new information about her and that Margaret Atwood has some incredible poems and short stories. As well as, Margaret has evolved, so hugely from being a student with dreams to momentarily has fulfilled her dreams of pursuing writing.
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney was born in Lynn Regis, England, on June 13, 1752, to Charles Burney and Esther Sleeper. Fanny Burney one of the six children. Father was a famed musical historian, composer, and musician. Her father had a doctorate in music from Oxford. She mother, warm and intelligent women, was Catholic daughter of a French refugee.
