Ronald Ervin McNair was born to Carl and Pearl McNair on October 21, 1950, in Lake City, South Carolina, a quaint little town that was typical of most pre-Civil Rights-era rural towns. The house in which he was born had neither running water nor electricity. He had two brothers Eric and Carl Jr. The McNairs were a highly industrious couple who taught their sons by words, examples, and deeds. The three boys were never asked or expected to do more than they witnessed their parents doing to provide for the family.
His death led to his mother’s death a year later. The house was passed down from descendant
Gary Charles Evans Rachael Fucci Johnson and Wales University Gary Charles Evans was born October 7, 1954 in Troy, New York. Gary had one sister, his parents divorced when he was 14. After the divorce, his mother married multiple other times before revealing she was gay. His mother mostly did odd jobs, like garment and retail. There was a period where the factory had no work so she helped out a Jewish family doing dishes and bathrooms.
In 1927, Elmer Teofilo Vega was born in the town of Pojo, Bolivia, to a family who would have been considered poor even in that part of the world. He received a basic education and was the valedictorian of his high school. He then moved to the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia, where he worked to pay his way through college and medical school. After marrying, alone and monolingual he boarded a boat from Chile to Miami with $2.07 to his name. Elmer worked odd jobs and soon sent a letter containing a ticket to Bolivia enabling his wife to come to the states.
In this paragraph Hancock,s family and childhood will be explained. When Hancock was seven his father died and Hancock was adopted. John graduated from Harvard in 1754. John went to London in 1760 as the firm’s representative.
His grandparents dropped him and his sister to train
However, his father, Leighton, also drove a truck in the Army Infantry during World War II. With only a fourth grade education, Dr. Anderson’s father was able to get a job in the Industrial Midwest were two of Dr. Anderson’s uncles lived. In this time of racial segregation, his family participated in the Great Migration movement, relocating to South Blend, Indiana. Here his father had a well-paid job at the foundry of the
They ended up selling the farm in 1807. His father had passed away shortly before the selling. They moved to a new farm in Baker Creek, Tennessee. He abandoned his home in the year of 1809, at the age of 16. He was adopted by the Cherokee chief Oolooteka.
Texas’s first African American woman novelist was also a biographer, diarist, educator, publisher, and librarian. Lillian B. Horace was born on April 29, 1880 in Jefferson, Texas. Her parents were Thomas Armstead and Mary Ackard. The family moved to Fort Worth, Texas when Lillian was a young toddler. She would go on to receive her early and formal education, graduating from the historically black institution, I. M. Terrell High School.
Not a lot is know about his childhood or his parents but what they do know is that he was born somewhere near Abilene, Texas. He also had 5 siblings. When he was two his father died of unknown causes so life was hard for him and his family. When He was old enough to work he and his brothers got jobs at a meatpacking company and Rogers got the lucky job as the messenger at 10 years old. He was educated up until 10th grade.
Her family lived in a one room dirt floor Cabin, and Coleman and her siblings were raised during a time of segregation and racial tension. Coleman’s grandparents were slaves. After her father left the family while Coleman was still young, she was given the responsibility of taking care of her siblings while her mother worked. Though this put pressure on
On September 11, 1913, Paul Bryant was born and became the 8th of 9 surviving children (three died at birth) to Monroe and Ida Bryant (Arkansas). He was a part of a poor farming family that lived in a rural area of Arkansas known as Moro Bottom
He was a child of grocery owners. After the Holocaust he became a professor. He has 3 sisters and no brothers. They barely got food in the ghetto. Whatever they
Ellen Houston, born in 1856, married twice and lived in Chicago (Prather and Monday 237). Joshua Houston Jr. was born fifth in 1861 and married Carolina Orviss on October eleventh 1898(Prather and Monday xvi and 184). Minnie Houston was born last in 1875 and had the most freedom out of all of her siblings; she was born ten years after slavery ended and was the most educated child along with her older brother Samuel Houston, who was born in 1864(Prather and Monday 237). Samuel Walker Houston, one of the more well known children of Joshua Houston’s, established his own school and inspired a new generation to strengthen Joshua
He only got to see his mother a handful of times before she passed always. At the age of eight he was sent to Baltimore he lived with Hugh Auld a ship carpenter. In Baltimore he had a life changing experience. He learned how to read, and also
