Ann Deborah Lynn knew she was born to be leader despite her circumstances as an African American in Lexington, Kentucky. Born October 3, 1810 to William Henry Lynn and Sarah Mae Lynn, her vision to be an inspiring Civil Rights Activist would be the biggest challenge of her life. Her father, William was a slave captured in Angola, Africa in broad daylight and her mother, Sarah was a daughter of slaves from Guinea. Free blacks in the South couldn’t express how they felt and wasn’t able to travel as freely as the free slaves in the Northern cities. The North also had more to offer because they were becoming more urban which meant better jobs, transportation and growing middle-class. Ann always knew she wanted to travel and speak to other slaves …show more content…
She cook for white and colored. Mammy was good.” Ann was sensitive and forgiving, she knew that slavery was wrong but she did not have anger against the whites; as uncanny as it may sound, Ann wanted to convince them someday that all people should get along despite one’s skin tone. As time passed on, Ann kept her journals of hardships and tried to persevere through her everyday life as a free slave in the South. By the time she reached thirty years old, she worked in the factory using the cotton gin. During this time period, the world as she knew it would change drastically, it was the Pre-Civil War period or commonly known as: The Antebellum Period. In 1843, Ann used the railroad system of transportation and relocated to Massachusetts to join the Northampton Association of Education. She wanted to gain insight of the Women’s right and strongly support the end of all violence (pacifism). This was short-lived due to the disbanded end of this community in 1846, Ann decided to live in a Utopian community known as “Brook Farm.” She was strongly committed to extend her courage to stop all slavery so she became an active member in the abolitionist movement as well as being a Woman’s Activist and Civil Rights
From Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Valparaiso, Indiana all the way to Dunedin, New Zealand Back to the United States to Tucson, Arizona where she stayed just for a few months. Then off she went back to the Midwest to Hugo, Minnesota to be closer to her family and now finally settled in Denver, Colorado with her husband Jeff and daughter Freya because of an outstanding job offer that was just too hard to resist. Never has Annika Pittman been one not to take risks. “Regret is meaningless. I don’t like to dwell on what I could change because I can’t.” Being a teacher of ten years, a wife, a mom, a friend, a daughter, and a sister she has made outstanding accomplishments. Knowing she wanted to be a teacher since kindergarten she had her whole life to strive for
Beth Brown is an African American woman who studied astrophysics. Astrophysics is an area of science which applies physical laws discovered on Earth to phenomena throughout the cosmos. Cosmos is the world or universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious system (Dictionary.com). Beth is a very appreciated and inspiring astronomer. An astronomer is an expert in or student of astronomy. She was an inspiration to women and minorities in encouraging them to pursue their careers in astronomy/physics. Beth Brown died at the age of 39 due to a pulmonary embolism. When she died, the astronomical community lost one of its most buoyant and caring individuals (Bregman 1).
Unfortunately, in our time of an opioid epidemic, people will do anything to feed their irrepressible drug habit, which is why it isn't surprising, and head-shakingly sad, to hear that a woman faked cancer to feed hers. The really surprising part? She's married to a police officer, and he didn't catch on for almost four years.
Debbie Allen was born to Vivian Ayers and Arthur Allen on January 16, 1950. At age three she started dancing and at age four she knew she wanted to be a professional dancer. Her parents divorced in 1957, and her mother was Debbie and her siblings were encouraged to be creative and independent. In 1960, Vivian Ayers took her children to Mexico. When they came back to Texas, Debbie auditioned for the Houston Ballet School but was denied because the color of her skin. A Russian teacher at the school saw Debbie perform and secretly enrolled her. When she was sixteen, she auditioned for the North Carolina School of the Arts but was rejected because her body was “unsuited” for ballet. While she was in high school she put her studies first and went
against lynching and created an impact on slaves. People who did not agree with her were
nce again God has chosen another flower from the Hayes family garden. 1st Lt Carolyn Ann Youngblood better known to her loved ones as “Baby Carolyn” or “Mookie” by her father.
Kate Kimball is an award-winning fiction author who has worked hard to be in the position she is in now. Despite currently struggling with her health, she has continued to peruse her English PhD in Creative Writing here at Florida State University. Born in beautiful Salt Lake City, Utah Kimball is surprised to find herself over 2,000 miles away now studying in the sunshine state. FSU offers one of the top creative writing programs that currently is ranked top 5 in the nation according to The Atlantic Monthly. Kimball was excited to be accepted into the accredited program after earning her bachelor’s from the University of Utah and masters at Virginia Tech. Kimball has always loved writing and says, “Creative writing allows you to write about
Deborah Sampson Gannet is known for her courage, devotion and her female heroism. Her theme of her story is she is constantly being separated from her family and getting hurt in the Revolutionary War. Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War. Deborah Sampson was born on December 17, 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts.
Cynthia Ann Parker was a true pioneer of of the west. She was a young girl who lived in the white community, then her life changed in one night. Cynthia parker lived a rough life. She was captured, she was forced back into the white community, the white people kept her locked in her room, her children died of diseases, she refused to eat, then she died of the same disease her child Topsannah did.
Deborah Sampson’s early years gave her a strong political opinion and an excellent education for a women. Sampson was born into poverty in December
Margaret Lea Houston (April 11, 1819 – December 3, 1867) was First Lady of the Republic of Texas, First Lady of the state of Texas, and a founding member of Concord Baptist Church in Grand Cane. She was a poet and an accomplished musician. Her influence on husband Sam Houston persuaded him to give up alcohol and profane language. Margaret gave birth inside the governor's mansion to the youngest of their eight children, as angry mobs gathered outside in response to her husband's opposition to Texas signing the Ordinance of Secession of the Civil War. He was removed from office for refusing to swear loyalty to the Confederacy. Their eldest son joined the Confederate army and was left for dead on the battlefield at Shiloh, saved by a Union Army
Her intentions were pure and for the people that were in need. She only wanted for everyone to be treated with equal respect and rights. Though she went through her entire life without being able to read or write, she still managed to lead a self-fulfilling life. This woman is Harriet Tubman. In the book, Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann Petry goes through her major stages of her life.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born July 4, 1868 in Lancaster, Massachusetts and died in 1921. Henrietta's parents were George Roswell and Henrietta swan I. George was a divinity doctor and a minister as well, which didn't keep them in one place very long. Henrietta was the first born of seven children, two of which passed away at very young ages. because of the fast pace of her father ministry they moved a lot. when Henrietta was 17 they moved to Ohio where she enrolled at Oberlin College for three years. One of those years she participated in a preparatory course and the other two she studied music. after the three years in Ohio they moved back home to Massachusetts this time to Cambridge. there, no matter how hard she tried she could not enroll
By Amberley SparkesDel Kathryn Barton was born to two teachers in 1972, Sydney, New South Wales. She grew up on a hobby-style goat farm, obsessed with drawing from a young age. Barton suffered a cacophony of psychotic disorders, nothing of which doctors could officially diagnose. She escaped her reality of mental instability by emerging herself in drawing and arts. Barton went through several periods of “self loathing” and eating disorders, of which are reflected in many of Barton’s pieces. Barton explores ideas of femininity, exploring and understanding the female body and the stigmas associated with children and sexual representations
Lena Wilkes was born in the small secluded community known as Comnor Valley. She was raised in a polygamous family, with four mothers and forty-seven siblings, all members of the First Consecration Order (FCO). When she was sixteen years old, after years of abuse, including being impregnated by her own father and being forced to marry her first cousin, Alma Wayment, she fled her family and faith. After many years as a vagabond in Middle and Southwest America, Lena eventually finds acceptance and sanctuary in the small Navajo town of Powell, just 50 miles east of her former hometown. While she tries to keep contact and connection with other former FCO members and runaways in the surrounding region, she chooses to center her focus on building herself a new life away from her past. She's thrust into