On February 15, 1912, during the same week in which Edith Elmira Sigler was born in Shelby County, Center Texas, a sister town published the Lubbock avalanche. The U.S postal workers are compared to other mail service workers on how much they make. Lubbock acalanche reminded their followers of the upcoming State Primary that was held on July 27th 1912. Edith Sigler was probably use to seeing the Republicans and the Deomocrats who worked together to fight socaialism. The town of Lubbock was dignosed with “improvemetngitis”.
Childhood On July 6, 1921, Anne Frances Robbins was born in New York City, she was an only child of Kenneth Robbins, a salesman, and Edith Luckett Robbins, an aspiring actress. From an early age, Anne acquired the nickname “Nancy”. During Nancy’s infancy, her father, Kenneth left the marriage, leading to Edith to send her daughter to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, Nancy attended Sidwell Friends School.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield Connecticut in 1811, on June 14. Lyman Beecher was her father, he was a very religious man. Her mother was not around when she was growing up, as she died when Harriet was a child. Lyman was strongly against slavery and influenced Harriet to feel this way too. In the Semi-Colon Club that Harriet was in, she fell in love with her teacher Calvin Ellis Stowe.
When you think of September you think of back to school. Right? We all remember the smell of a new box of crayons. Well in the 1900s that was not the case for many children in America. Labor laws were not fair, but there was one American woman in that era that said enough is enough.
Ruth Rankin received some devastating at her 20-week ultrasound. She was told that her daughter would probably not survive after birth. Ruth 's daughter had a rare brain disorder. The doctors suggested that Ruth terminate her pregnancy, but she refused. Even though Ruth 's daughter was not supposed to survive, she is now four years-old.
Loraine Hansberry was born in 1930, during the times of segregation and racial issues. Her family purchased a home in the suburbs of Chicago, and find themselves unwelcomed by their white neighbors. The tension boils over and chaos arises resulting in a brick nearly hitting Lorraine Hansberry. This incident leads to the eviction of their home; Carl Hansberry with the help of NAACP takes the white neighborhood to court, claiming their home as a landmark. The case of Hansberry v. Lee resulted in the removal of racially restrictive covenants, later the family’s home was visited by great African American figures.
Professor James T. Downs gave an interesting lecture on the masking of epidemics after the civil war. His take on the Harriet Ann Jacobs’ story was something that extremely captivated me because I had not known much about her story. Harriet Ann Jacobs exposed the reality of what it meant to be a slave and gave a different perspective from that of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Despite all, she did to expose the conditions that former slaves lived in, and the progress that she helped create in the 19th century, many whites did not believe that Jacobs wrote her own story. This was due to the basis that she was poor and black.
Lynette Woodard was born on August 12, 1959. To her mother and father in Wichita Kansas. She instantly became interested in Basketball when she was a young girl, this is because of her older brother who would make her practice her shots with a stuffed sock. As Lynette grew older, she started to realize that men and women were not treated fairly, but her fondness of basketball was growing stronger. She practiced nonstop, even though people told her she would never make a team.
Ruth Charlotte Ellis was born on July 23, 1899, in Springfield, Illinois. She grew up during a time when Black people and women were discriminated against. Ruth moved to Detroit, Michigan, seeking new opportunities as it can be difficult due to her gender and race. In Detroit, she found work and eventually started her own printing business, becoming one of the first Black women in the area to do so. Her spirit and determination were evident from a young age.
The Younger’s are a family filled with headstrong characters, who break society 's barriers. Bennie is one of the few women who want to a doctor, which is not common at this time. Most people tell her that she should just become a nurse like most women and save her family money by not going to medical school. However, Bennie knows what she wants to do and will not let people stop her. A women is filled with strength when she adjust to many things in life and has overcome more (22).
In the beginning of the play, on page 24, it states “Time: Sometime between Word War II and the present” generalized the play more and made it seem more relatable. It made me think that it could have taken place any time after WWII because the use of the word “present.” The playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, most likely was referring to the time period she was writing it. The word choice makes me question my reasoning but my other theory is that the play was made to feel interchangeable with any time period. For example, Hansberry puts quotation marks on “today’s clothes” maybe to say it could be anything a little boy wears, even though fashion changes over time.
Lorraine V. Hansberry Author Lorraine Hansberry, who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Modernist period. She wrote “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1959. In this work, we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Modernist movement which was extant in American letters between 1850’s and after WWII. Lorraine Hansberry wrote during this time period of American literature, and such, remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of her time. Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois.
Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun is set in a one-bedroom apartment shared by three generations of the Younger family: Walter and Ruth, their son Travis, Walter’s sister Beneatha, and their mother Lena. The Younger family is waiting for a $10,000 life insurance check resulting from the father’s recent death. The windfall represents a kind of liberation to the family with the central conflict over how to spend the money. Mama (Lena) puts down a payment on a house in an all-white neighborhood (Clybourne Park), while Walter wants to invest in a liquor store. Mama relents, with the condition that they carve out $3,000 for Beneatha’s college education.
Imagine being outside and hearing the birds sing, but when you open your eyes all you can see are blurry figures. That is what it was like for Anne Sullivan, yet she still managed to teach a blind, deaf, and mute girl how to communicate with the world and as a result she is remembered as a great teacher. Listen carefully as I tell you about Anne Sullivan. Anne Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, MA. When she was 5, she got an eye disease called trachoma, which severely damaged her eyes making it difficult for her to see.
Most churches today don’t still believe that the earth is flat, or that the sun revolves around the earth. Many churches today are more progressive and tolerable to different beliefs. The scientific revolution brought many ideas that would make churches accept the new teachings of scientist and philosophers like Copernicus and Voltaire Copernicus was the first person to believe that the Earth and all other planets revolved around the sun. Before Copernicus's discovery the Scientist and astronomers believe that the sun rotated around earth. Other astronomers didn’t believe in his theory because Copernicus had no way of proving his theory.
