Rose O’Neal Greenhow (confederate spy) Rose O’Neal Greenhow is friendly with the northern politicians like the Secretary of State and the Massachusetts Senator. On July 1861, she sent reports about the Union’s plan to invade.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow was a Rebel Spy for the Confederacy during the Civil War. She was a well known woman among the government throughout her life, and served as an important spy. In her later life she was arrested for smuggling, and died in an unintentional accident. She impacted the spying society greatly, and influenced many people who shared a similar point of view as her. Rose O’Neal Greenhow’s early life was filled with many unfortunate events.
I will be doing a study on Laurie Cabot. Laurie Cabot is a witch, author, artist, and businesswoman, who is one of the first people to help support witchcraft in the United States. She founded her own witchcraft tradition, the Cabot Tradition of the Science of Witchcraft, and the Witches’ League for Public Awareness. Laurie Cabot was born on March 6, 1933, first named as Mercedes Elizabeth Kearsey, in Wewoka, Oklahoma, before moving to Anaheim, California. Laurie Cabot was raised under the Catholic Church teachings, however, at a young age, Cabot was growing aware of her supernatural, or in other words, psychic, abilities.
Mary Jemison was one of many white captives who lived a full and happy life with her indian captors. The day Mary Jemison was taken by the indians started out like any other day. A friend of her father’s needed to borrow a horse in order to carry a bag of grain to the Jemison’s house. The friend had also taken a gun with him in case he saw any game fit for killing. The Jemison’s heard gunshots coming from nearby outside and quickly became alarmed.
Great Presidents recognize value of colored people but haven’t seen them as citizens yet while they fought for the rights of their masters. Society has not yet rewarded African Americans for their contribution to to the freedom of the United States. Green is storytelling history pointing out that Blacks have contributed a great amount to the country hoping to get the freedoms that they originally fought for in the Revolutionary
A famous artist once said “What I would rather do is to paint something beautiful”, Alma Thomas. Throughout her entire life Alma Thomas have created many paintings that hang up on museums walls where everybody was able to recognize that was a painting done by Alma Thomas. Not only did she spend time painting famous art work, Alma Thomas was an art teacher who taught at Washington D.C. schools for over 35 years. Many people today will describe Alma a force in the Washington Color School. Alma Thomas is an inspiration to me for her early life challenges, teaching career, and successful accomplishments.
He changed so many people’s lives throughout the course of his. For 16 years, he edited an influential black newspaper and achieved international fame as an inspiring and persuasive speaker and writer. Until the day of his death, he continued to improve the lives of those who went through what he went
He made progress for black athletes and all concerned for
How can this represent something revolutionary? A young man denied his rights and opportunities due to his skin color? Most African Americans had to deal with this kind of treatment from the average white citizen, who put themselves higher than the
Although the law changed, people were not as quick to the change, so African American were continually mistreated until others stood up for them and put their feet down just like Thurgood Marshall did in order to let African Americans gain equality. Marshall was a strong believer in the law and that things can and would change for the better like how he suggested "The Negro who was once enslaved by law
One of the people who changed the world was Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery when he was young. Unlike other slaves Frederick Douglass know how to read. 1838 Frederick escaped slavery and stayed in Massachusetts with his wife then Douglass became an abolitionist.
I, Frederick Douglass, a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement, was the first black citizen to hold a high U.S. government rank. I was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. I ended becoming a famous intellectual and got involved in a large range of causes lecturing thousands about women’s rights, and the abolition movement to name a few. I wasn’t born Frederick Douglass, rather my birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. I was one of the first African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman, but more than that I wanted to help shape the United States as to where race and color did not matter, where everyone can live together without arguments over issues like these.
Mary Day was a very decorated and important event to the Daughters of Mary. During the celebration, exciting events took place that were unforgettable. First, an event that started off the celebration was a feast. As Lily says, "By now I'd learned that eating was a high priority with the Daughters," (P.225). After that, they stood in a circle, an took the honey bread, and passed it to the person next to each other, like the Eucharist in church.
Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More (1478–1535) was prominent in English politics, law, and philosophy. He was Lord Chancellor under King Henry VIII from 1529 to 1532 and was a close personal friend of the monarch. Utopia, his examination of the ideal society, made him famous. For his refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII as the head of the Catholic Church, More was put to death. He is widely regarded as a figure of selflessness because of the influence his works and legacy have had on Western civilization.
My goal as an artist is to allow opportunities for those in low income brackets, so they may have a form of expression that can help them release energy into a positive space. I want to teach my art and become involved in the teaching and choreographing process so people can use it to help them with daily struggles and provide a community that welcomes creativity, flow and positive outlooks on life. Bob Fosse a famous choreographer once said “choreography is writing on your feet”, I look to this quote for inspiration as well as a definition of how I believe dance can be used because Dance was escapism for me in dark times of my life and It helped me cope with a copious amount of mental health issues. Dance to me is telling my story while
