The doctors are waiting to see if he gets worse before he gets better, in the meantime Hood is doing everything she can in the donation process.…
Margie Wilson, a 95 year old woman and patient at Golden Oaks Rehabilitation Center located on the grounds of Marion General Hospital, is dealing with some difficult times after losing her son, Williams, this past week. Within the past five years, she has also had to deal with the passing of her husband of 68 years, Earl, and another son who died in a motor vehicle accident, Jacob.…
I have placed Elizabeth Huffman in Tier 2 near management as of today. Please continue to review the daily sheet.…
Ellen McConnell was born Scotland in 1791. When she was 70 years old, she lived near Birch Coulee, MN, with her son David, when the US Dakota War broke out in 1862 . On August 18 Ellen was home alone when two Dakota men broke in. Ellen was unharmed but her grandson Thomas Brooks was killed. Her daughter Martha Claussen, an infant, and her grandchildren were captured. After the day of the attack, she and her son David found her other son Joseph at Fort Ridgely. Ellen and her son David never return to their home and moved to Houston County. She died in 1868. She never recovered from the shock of the attack!…
Brenda Jackson was born and raised in Jackson ,Florida .she got married to her high school sweet heart in 9172 .she went to earn a degree in business administration from Jacksonville university and had two sons Gerald grand and Brandon .she is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels .she was the first African American author to have a novel published as part of the silhouette desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach the united states of America best seller list .…
Patrice Bath was born November 4, 1942, in Harlem, NY, Bath’s parents were Rupert Bath and Gladys Bath. Her father was born in Trinidad and was the first black motorman for the subway system in New York City. Her mother was born in American and she was a homemaker until her children were in their Pre-teen ages, at that point she became a homemaker for other families. The Bath family were poor and…
July 10th, 1875 was the day that miss Mary Mcleod Bethune was born in Mayesville South Carolina to her mother and father, who previously themselves were slaves. Mary, later in life, would come to be recognized as “one of the most prominent African American women of the first half of the twentieth century-- and one of the most powerful.”. After serving as an educator,an activist, and an advisor for a line of presidents Mary can be credited as a major figure in the road to equal opportunity in the field of education. As a child in a family of nineteen, seventeen children and their two parents, it wasn't likely that she would have known anything else because there were no opportunities for any of her siblings to go to school, all they knew was…
With all the busyness going on in Mott’s life she found time to marry James Mott on April 10, 1811. They produced six children but one of their children died at the young age of two years old. The rest of their children they raised up with their political and religious beliefs and the children became involved in the anti-slavery movement. (Wikipedia, 2013)…
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams was the daughter of an American merchant and an Englishwoman. She grew p in London and France. Sadly their marriage was marked by unhappiness.…
On 1844 Mary Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania to a well-to-do family. She shared the house her father built on Rebecca Street with her younger brother Gardner and her older siblings Lydia, Alexander and Robbie. Robert Cassatt, Mary’s father, was a successful banker and also Mayor of Allegheny City for a time. Mary’s mother, Katherine Cassatt was well educated for a woman in the nineteenth century, forever having to abandon nests she had only just made. Mary Cassatt and her family moved several times within Pennsylvania, from Allegheny City to Pittsburgh, then to Lancaster, and then to Philadelphia. Robert Cassatt then decided to move his family to Paris, France when Mary was seven years old. He believed this to be a wise decision, the apotheosis of the Cassatt’s; but especially of Mary.…
Harriet Tubman was born as a slave to Harriet and Ben Ross in Maryland around 1820. When she was born she was given the name Armanita, “Minty” for short (Editors). Harriet, her parents, and her 10 other siblings struggled with staying together. When Tubman was only six years of age she was so called “rented out”…
Margaret Floy Washburn was born on July 25, 1871 in Harlem, New York City to Rev. Francis and Elizabeth Floy Washburn. She was an only child and did not attend school until the age of seven, although she could read and write long before that. Her first school was private and kept by the Misses Smuller. In private school she learned not only the rudiments of arithmetic, but also a foundation in French and German and the ability to read music and play all the major and minor scales from memory (Autobiography, 1930). It was not until the age of eleven that she entered public school. She entered high school at the age of twelve and graduated in June of 1886 at the age of fifteen.…
Aminata herself describes her journey as an abducted eleven-year-old from her native homeland Africa to a South Carolina plantation, then to New…
The struggles of African Americans to establish their freedom is a big part of American history. From the time of slavery until recent days, changes have taken place to better the lives of many. Names such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Jackie Robinson are names forever recognized and remembered by every American black or white. Many of those people led the way and instituted themselves leaders in the movement which directed everything that is connected to the life of African Americans. The biography of Anne Moody Coming of Age in Mississippi chronicles the many events she lives while enduring the harshness of discrimination. Moody’s traces her life from the age of four to twenty three divided into four different parts which reflect her inner growth and maturity. While many people in the South during the time become activists, many are stricken with difficulties of poverty, lack of understanding and lack of motivation towards the movement. This autobiography represents the forsaken and underprivileged majority in the South at the time and explains the many concerns, fears and doubts they had and the reasoning behind having them.…
Today I’m going to be talking about a famous entrepreneur known for being the founder of Zara, a famous fashion retail outlet, I’m sure you all, as girls, have heard of.…
