Charles Reason Short Biography

Charles W. Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 16, 1817.] His parents were Benjamin and Susannah Goodhue Adams. Benjamin was related to President of the United States John Adams.In 1819, the Adams family moved to New Albany, Indiana, where Charles was a clerk in a mercantile house between 1830 and 1835. Adams moved to Helena, Arkansas in 1835 and became a cashier in a mercantile house. In 1837, he became cashier of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas. After studying law at night, he became a lawyer in 1839. In the early 1840s, Adams slaveholder.entered into a law partnership with William K. Sebastian, who became a United States Senator in 1848.Adams was a judge from 1852 to 1854.He also became a large cotton planter and

He helped get Liberty. He studied the law. He gave his speech on the stamp act “Give me Liberty or give me death”

courtrooms, as well as educating Americans about legal processes and the do's and dont's of

When he returned home he enrolled in the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and Charles graduated with a degree in journalism in 1958(Moore).

Charles Young was born on March 12, 1864 in Kentucky. He was born to parents Arminta Bruen and Gabriel Young, who had just escaped from slavery before Charles was born. When Charles Young went to school, he attended an all white high school in Ripley.He one of the only African Americans in the school. He graduated from the Ripley high school in 1880.After high school he went and taught for a few years in a black school that had just opened up in his area. In 1883, Young decided to take a competitive test to be put in as a cadet, in the U.S. Army at West Point. He ended up having the second highest score in the area but, the number one student was not able to leave. Young went to West Point in 1884 where again, he was of the only African Americans

He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of women's rights. He became a trusted advisor to Abraham Lincoln, United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, Recorder of Deeds for Washington, D.C., and Minister-General to the Republic of Haiti”.

He had a first hand view on the terror of slavery, since he had experienced it as a boy. He had attended many civil rights campaigns, one of which including the women's suffrage rally. Also attending the rally were abolitionists Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony. These people were all victims of unfair treatment who would later help change U.S society.

War and saved the Union and efforts to abolish slavery. He is the only one during his time to be a

He was an avid advocate for the rights of African Americans.He was very dedicated to making sure that African American had a right to vote, could use public facilities, and could attend public schools. During a speech in 1961, he committed to civil rights for all citizens of the United States. "We will not stand by or be aloof. We will move. I happen to believe that the 1954 [Supreme Court school desegregation] decision was right. But my belief does not matter. It is the law. Some of you may believe the decision was wrong. That does not matter. It is the law." In 1962 he sent US Marshals to make sure that African American students could go to the University of Mississippi (Alden Whitman, 2001).

Charles I was born in Fife on November 19, 1600, the second son of James I of Scotland. As a child Charles had a sickly childhood, but he conquered and became the king of Scotland, England, and Ireland. In 1625, he began his reign after the death of his father. He was the second of the Stuart kings. Most of his reign was dedicated to the struggle with the House of Commons. Charles was a religious man, he preferred church services to be grand and full of ritual and color. This lead to a clash with many in England who preferred plain and simple services. Charles was his own enemy, he was arrogant made bad decisions, which began when he ascended the throne. Charles problems revolved around religion and a lack of money.

In his refusal to pay the government for his poll tax, he spent the night in jail. Someone who remained anonymous paid his fee and he was released. Meanwhile, he wanted to be a good neighbor and tried to inform everyone he met of how unfair the government was. Similarly, he detested that the Church collected money to pay the priests and everyone must pay. In regards to slavery and war, he felt that while people may have opposed these acts, most of them would do nothing about it. He was losing his faith in his fellow man to do what was

He went after every right in order to speak up for those slaves that didn’t have a voice. Education was one of his beliefs that helped him. Telling his story to the world, born a slave but now a free man. He fought for African Americans not are viewed as “property” or “slaves” but as equal to whites and must receive fair treatment.

Pinckney was born on February 25, 1746 to Charles Pinckney, a political farmer, and Eliza Lucas, the introducer and emphasizer of the indigo culture. Four years later Charles brother, Thomas Pinckney, was born on October 23 1750. When Charles was 23 he married his first wife Sarah Middleton and had Charles Cotesworth Pinckney in 1773, Maria Henrietta Pinckney in 1775, Harriot Pinckney in 1777 and finally Eliza Lucas Pinckney in 1784. Sadly, tragedy hit when Sarah died on May 8th of 1784 leaving Charles with three young daughters. He however remarried in 1786 to Mary stead and lived a full life until his death on August 16,

rights of people around the world.  He rose to prominence in a time when segregation was legal in America and black people were being lynched by white mobs, especially in the South.

Charlie Chaplin was born in South London on April 16, 1889. He was the first child of Hannah and Charles Chaplin. Charles was vaudeville actor. Hannah was a vaudeville singer. Charlie’s father was a drunk and he later left his family when he was three years old when he found out his wife had an affair with another actor, Leo Dryden. They soon had a child named George, who left to live with his father. Since Hannah was now a single mother, she was struggling to find a way to provide for her children. She had another son that was older than Charlie, from a previous relationship (Schwartz).