Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune was a educator and activist. Mary McLeod was Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the last of seventeen children, and fortunately was born in freedom. When a school for black children opened the McLeod family had to make a decision. They only had enough money to send one child and McLeod was chosen.
First Last Name Ms. Roberts ELA __ 15 March, 2017 Suratt’s Hanging What is your opinion on Mary Surratt’s terrible, unneeded hanging? Mary Surratt was an innocent woman who was accused of helping John Wilkes Booth with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. She got hanged for it, but the person who actually did do something to help John Wilkes, Dr Mudd, didn’t get hanged, he got life in prison.
Mary was truly a stunningly smart, intelligent, and brave person. Her name was Mary Jane when she was born. It’s not known when she was born, but it was a bit of time before May 17, 1846. It is documented of her being baptized on that date at St. John’s Episcopal in Richmond, Virginia. Mary has been believed to have been born in the late 1830s or early 1840s.
Mary Lou Retton was born to Lois, and Ronnie Retton on January 24,1968. She was the youngest of five children, three boys, and two girls. Lois would take Mary Lou, and her sister, Shari ,to West Virginia University for gymnastics once a week. Mary Lou was first pining for Olympic Gold at age four when watching Olga Korbut during the 1972 Olympics. When Mary Lou was seven she watched Nadia Comaneci compete in the Olympics.
Bonnie and Clyde’s Mark on The 1930’s It was a time of little hope and poverty in the 1930’s when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow first took their opinionated stand against the Federal Bureau of Investigation along with local police enforcement. During their four years of criminal activity, they scared many american citizens in the midwest and south. Their crimes left many crying due to their loved ones dying, registers were emptied, and officers lay dead on asphalt to meadow. In 1934, Police officers were enraged with the outlaws and found a way to force the killers to stop.
In result, she only received probation while the driver who was white faced no consequences. All she wanted to do was draw attention to the pressing issue of racism in Ferguson. Activists and protesters are always putting their lives at risk for the greater good of their communities. There is a misconception that Black Live Matters protesters in particular are not peaceful protesters. When in reality, they are peaceful protesters and then the police show up in army gear to tear gas and threaten people, and that is when things become chaotic.
Mary Ann Cotton is a suspected serial killer from the 19th century in Britain. She was convicted of killing one of her stepchildren. Even though there was only that one charge brought against her, she is thought to have killed fourteen others, maybe as many as twenty-one. Everyone around Mary seemed to die from unexplained children, husbands, her children, even her mother. Each time one would die, she would collect some insurance and move on.
Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson was born August 26, 1918. She was born in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. Her mother was a teacher and her father was a farmer and janitor. Katherine was one of the first African Americans to enroll in the mathematics program. With Katherine being one of the first to enroll in the mathematics program she was very intelligent.
INTRODUCTION On Saturday, August 9, 1997, nearly twenty (20) years ago, Haitian immigrant Abner Louima made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. When he left his apartment in the East-Flatbush section of Brooklyn, accompanied by his younger brother and an older cousin, he had no idea that his life would be forever changed. He would become victim to an unspeakable, grotesque, dreadful and inhumane act of violence that would not only shock the conscience of the world community but would forever leave him with the stigma of having been the victim of the worst crime in the history of police brutality in New York City. Abner Louima was born in Haiti. He immigrated to the United States.
In my opinion, I believe that Mary Bell’s life was dictated and shaped by her childhood upbringing. I believe this because, from the very start of her life, Mary Bell did not have a loving pair of parents to raise her. The one person that she did have was her teenage mother that had to work on the streets to make money for herself. In addition to this, her mom severely neglected and harmed Mary Bell as a baby. Mary Bell’s mother caused her to overdose on pills on various occasions and someone even reported that her mother tried to kill her by throwing her out of a window.
Later on as the years passed, Jacobs worked for “the family of Nathaniel Parker Willis, (1806-1867), one of the era’s most popular writers and editors” (Baym, 920). While working as a babysitter for the Willis’s family, she later gained her passion for writing. Harriet Jacobs was later purchased by her original owner by the Willis’s family so she can be her owner. There is where she gained her emancipation.
“On a night when thousands of Paris residents and tourists were reveling and fans were enjoying a soccer match between France and world champion Germany, horror struck in an unprecedented manner. Terrorists -- some with AK-47s, some reportedly with bombs strapped to them – attacked sites throughout the French capitol and at the stadium where the soccer match was underway” (CNN). In a world of constant fighting and terror everyone is in need of leaders that remind them of goodness. Jimmie Lee Jackson, John Lewis, and Barbara Jordan are leaders who fight for good through their determination for equality, beliefs in peace, and passion for justice. Jimmie Lee Jackson was a good leader because he was determined for equality.
My name is Katherine, Katherine Johnson. An educated African- American girl with dark curly hair, big brown eyes and a bright future. I was born in 1918 in a small, yet beautiful town called White Sulfur Springs in West Virginia. As a young girl, I was absorbed by numbers, I counted everything. I counted my steps as I walked, I counted the steps outside of my church, and I counted the dishes and silverware as I washed them.
Harriet Ann Jacobs is the first Afro-American female writer to publish the detailed autobiography about the slavery, freedom and family ties. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent to keep the identity in secret. In the narrative, Jacobs appears as a strong and independent woman, who is not afraid to fight for her rights. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was published in 1961, but was unveiled almost 10 years later due to the different slave narrative structure. Frequently, the slave narratives were written by men where they fight against the slavery through literacy by showing their education.
As innate to America as apple pie and baseball are, so is vigilantism. Since the decision to revolt against Britain in 1776, acts of vigilantism have prevailed the nation. American vigilantism organizes itself into three distinct eras, classical, neo and pseudo vigilantism all of which serve as reactions to epidemics plaguing the nation. Classical vigilantism, in essence, is another term for frontier justice. As the United States pushed westward into previously uninhabited lands the problem of policing those lands arises.
