I was looking through the “Texas day by day” section on the TSHA website and there was an article that caught my eye. It read, “Lucy Pickens face appears on Confederate $100 Bills.”1 I had never known of any person being on the one-hundred-dollar bill except for Benjamin Franklin, so I decided to look into it. Lucy Pickens was an advocate of the secession.2 She was known as the “Queen of Confederacy.”2 Many thought she was captivatingly beautiful and she was the inspiration behind the stereotype the “Southern Belle.”2 While the picture I see of her is extremely old and the fashion was very different back then, I had pictured something else when I heard the term Southern Belle. I find it extremely interesting to now know who helped shape the
Ruby Laffoon (January 15, 1869 – March 1, 1941) was a politician from the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. He was the Commonwealth's 43rd governor, serving from 1931 to 1935. At age 17, Laffoon moved to Washington, D.C. to live with his uncle, U.S. Representative Polk Laffoon. He developed an interest in politics and returned to Kentucky, where he compiled a mixed record of victories and defeats in elections at the county and state levels. In 1931, he was chosen as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee by a nominating convention, not a primary, making him the only Kentucky gubernatorial candidate to be chosen by a convention after 1903. In the general election, he defeated Republican William B. Harrison by what was then the largest margin of victory
“Born into wealth and privilege as the daughter of the Provincial Governor of Massachusetts, Lucy Flucker Knox would have had her choice of a number of acceptable suitors. She fell in love, however, with perhaps the single most inappropriate man in Colonial Boston.” –The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York
I chose Florence Joyner because, she is an Olympic gold medalist, american sprinter, and she change the way of Track/Field. She has set and held records in the 100 meter and 200 meter events. Florence Joyner nickname “Flo Jo” as the fastest women on earth. She started trends and helped others.
Mary Fields was born in 1834 and she passed away in 1914. Mary Fields was the very first African-American women to carry the mail. Mary Fields was born into slavery while she lived in Tennessee, she stopped being a slave when the war ended and slavery had been outlawed. Mary Fields was also known as Stagecoach Mary or Black Mary, she was also an American pioneer. After slavery was outlawed she then began to work for Judge Edmund Dunne in her home. When Mary was a slave her original owner was Judge Edmund Dunne and after slavery was outlawed she still proceeded to work for and with her. Mary Fields was a female African-American pioneer. Mary Fields was said to be one of the most colorful characters in the history of the Great Plains it's also been said that she was six feet tall and she weighed over 200 pounds. She also
Mary Pitchford or “America’s sweetheart” was an iconic silent film actress and overall great entertainer in just about all categories film related. Mary was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Canada and after only five years on the planet she would begin performing for an audience. Ten years later she would already find herself performing on Broadway in New York along side some of the most talented actors in the world.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow was one of the most influential women in the Civil war. She was an undercover Spy from The Confederates because she believed that the South had a right to Secede from The United States and she was influenced by other people. She used to assemble information that the Union used to have and send it to the South. She then was suspicious after sending messages about The Battle of Bull Run. Therefore she was imprisoned, but that didn't stop her from sending information to South about the Union. Her intelligence and cleverness helped the South improve a lot. She not only became popular in the South, she also became popular Europe because of her charm.
Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on
She died in October 18, 1893, in Dorchester which is part of Boston. Lucy Stone had dedicated her life to trying to improve the rights for American Women. She had supported the Women’s National Loyal League, this association also were founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. These ladies were also fighting with her and for the same things. Lucy was actually one of the most important ones just because she has broken new borders. Her occupation was a Women’s Rights, Activist and Journalist. She had her very first lecture on women’s rights movement. Then the following year she lectured at Anti- slavery societies every once in awhile. She had great eloquence and she was known for being able to engage even the most unruly and antagonistic audience. Which would because of the time and the causes she supported. In 1870 she founded the “Woman’s Journal”. Because of this for nearly 50 years the
Wheelock College (or Wheelock) was established in 1888 by Lucy Wheelock as Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School to enhance the nature of early adolescence instruction. The College offers undergrad and graduate projects that attention on the Arts and Sciences, Education and Child Life, and Social Work and Family Studies to satisfy their main goal of enhancing the lives of kids and families. Wheelock is situated in Boston (Massachusetts), and is an individual from the Colleges of the Fenway. Wheelock is an individual from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts (AICUM) and drove by President Jackie Jenkins-Scott. The College is licensed by:
How can you be the youngest American self-made billionaire and a college drop out? Thirty-year-old Elizabeth Holmes accomplished this with her company Theranos. “I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go to give their life something, “she said,” what I did was just to start a little earlier” (Holmes). Elizabeth dropped out of Stanford University at the age of 19 and cashed the funds for her tuition to start her company. Her company took the $76 billion industry in laboratory-diagnostics head on. This industry hasn’t changed since the modern clinical laboratory emerged in the 1960’s. Elizabeth’s company wants to use a pinprick of blood in a container smaller than a dime to do 50 plus blood diagnostics in one. This means no vials of blood, no tourniquets and less time than the traditional test time. All the things the company is trying to create are amazing. These advancements will not only help with earlier detections of illnesses; the
Confederate States of America before and during the civil war. Her reason for taking a side during the war was not only to see the slaves be free. Anthony wanted to see all men equal. She had a plan (Hist. Works).
Before engaging in discourse regarding the Confederacy, it is important to understand what, exactly, it was about. The Confederate States of America were formed in 1861 as a way for the deep South to continue owning slaves, due in part to the fact that their agricultural industries depended on slave labor to operate. While they did stand for other things, the origin and primary goal of the Confederacy was to fight against those who wanted to abolish slavery. Because of this, Confederate memorabilia and monuments are fundamentally linked with slavery and racism, and this aspect must be remembered when discussing what to do with regards to Confederate monuments.
Lucy Burns was a women that was part of the womens rights act. She was one of those women who really wanted this for all of the other women out there. Burns was one of the women that picked next to the white house, and when she was doing that the police came and she got through into jail. This grate women was a risk taker, Lucy Burns was the leader of her little group. I think that she and her group were really strong women for doing that and getting through in jail. And there were many other protest about this big problem.
I had an interesting conversation about television, with my beloved grandmother Shirley this weekend. I was curious to know how the enjoyment of television has changed over the years. I wanted to know how she remembered watching television as a child , what programs she watched, who watched the program with her, and what the most memorable show she watched was.
In introduction, Mary Wollstonecraft wastes no time to illustrate and sadness and disappointment with their education system and their educators. Wollstonecraft believes that men see women as wives and mistresses and not “human creatures” and that the government observes the female as inferior to male. To Wollstonecraft, the instruction of women to be beautiful and yielding to men in search for marriage leaves their minds and usefulness sacrificed. Wollstonecraft’s writings are a clear and direct cry to women to have and explore their desires as well as curiosity, and in that regards, intelligence and human character. Wollstonecraft contends that a more educated woman would bring about a happier husband, child, and society. A quote that summarizes