Esther Bubley Research Paper

Civil Disobedience has been around for hundreds of years. This a practice first put into play by a man by the name of Henry David Thoreau who believed that if you didn’t agree with a rule then you should act against it in a nonviolent way, and be willing to accept any punishment that comes with it. His teachings were followed by famous activists such as Ghandi, and Martin Luther King Jr., and many others.

Cathy freeman an Australian track and field athlete was the first ever aboriginal commonwealth games gold medalist. Cathy was born on February 16th 1973, in Slade Point MacKay Queensland. She is now 43 years if age.

Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 in Houston Texas. She was the youngest child of three. Her father Benjamin Jordan was a Baptist minister and warehouse clerk. Her mother, Arlyne was a maid, housewife and church teacher. Jordan went to college at the University of Texas. She graduated from college being one out of two African American women in her class. Jordan passed away from viral pneumonia on January 17, 1996. Barbara Jordan is a modern here because she is a brave woman, she overcame racism, she is also a civil rights activist.

creators of the Salem Witch Trials (L. Annika). The girls were believed to have been doing black

On a long dirt road in a wooden farmhouse in Mississippi, lived Bessie Vanburen, her 4 children, and her husband John Vanburen. Bessie was a beloved mother who did everything for everyone else before seeing about herself. She had 3 ?boys and 1 girl. Jackson & Justin were the oldest boys who were identical twins. Jonathan was the middle son who had autism where he needed proper care for his health. Jennifer was the only girl & the baby who was always whining about having to do stuff with her brothers all the time. Bessie was a very caring young woman who didn?t work but did housewife chores all day every day. ?The more dirt around the house the more she felt the need to clean up. At the age of 16 Bessie found love while playing in the field yard with some friends. Mr. John Vanburen took her hand in marriage and started a family with her. Although, Bessie was a slave she was very sick but was too busy to focus on her health. ?She stayed in the field majority of the day while her husband go? out and work to provide. The kids would be tagging along with her because there weren?t any babysitters around the way. Bessie was very young with a life of her own. She had lost both of her parents in war ?and grew up raising herself after her grandparent?s? passed. Everything that the family had for dinner was

High Schools across the United States have students with different ethnicities and cultures. However, in the 1950’s the world was different and the thought of integration was perceived by many as an instrumental goal. There were white and black schools, parks, water fountains, restaurants, and communities. Melba Pattillo Beals was among one of the first African-American to change the landscape of integration in schools. In 1957, Beals and eight other African American students would change the color divider for generations to come, although with change comes sacrifice. The help of her family and the protection of the soldiers in the school from the animosity of her white classmates and the white community helped Beals endure the trials and tribulations

On October 4, 1904, Mary Jane McLeod Bethune launched the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls with five students in a four-room cottage that she rented for eleven dollars per month. It was the first grade school for black children in the community. Bethune’s school was near the train tracks and the parents paid fifty cents per week for tuition. She showed her students crafts and homemaking, so that they could “earn a good living when they were grown” (Pinkney 45). Mary utilized pieces of burnt wood for chalk. She created pen ink from elderberry juice. Packing crates were used for desks. The students who lived at the school slept on corn sacks that Bethune filled with Spanish moss. To assist Bethune, some of the townspeople

Elizabeth Freeman more commonly known as Mum Bett was born into slavery around the year of 1742. She spent most of her childhood and early adult years as a slave to a man named John Ashley and his wife, Hannah in Sheffield, Massachusetts alongside what historians believe to be her sister Lizzie. That was until Hannah, the wife, tried violently attacking and abusing Freeman’s sister in 1781. Mum Bett reported the incident to a local abolitionist who then brought her case to the courts. After a surprisingly short trial she became one of the first slaves to sue for her freedom and became a key factor in the abolishment of slavery in Massachusetts.

Abbie Bickler is a college freshman attending Grace Bible College, who is studying business management. She grew up in the suburbs of Waukesha, Wisconsin and decided to move out of state for the real college experience. She is an only child and spent her childhood drawing and doing puzzles. Abbie previously attended West Suburban Christian Academy and Heritage Christian High School in Wisconsin, where she played varsity softball, acted in four school plays, and stage managed a play in her junior year. In her senior year, she participated in AP art, focusing on three dimensional design, and coordinated a 30-hour famine throughout her high school during her senior year. She currently works as a party hostess at Craig’s Cruisers and works as

Helen Pearl Burg is a very fascinating woman. Born on July 31, 1938, in a log cabin her father had built 4 miles North of the small town known as Dierks, AR.

Imagine living in a state one's entire life and living somewhere completely different for three years as a teenager.Hannah Long used to live in Rangely, Colorado and she moved to Greensburg, Pennsylvania three years ago. She has been my friend since sophomore year of high school. We met last year in our choir class and our world history class. We also attended each others sweet sixteen’s last year.While conducting an interview with Hannah I learned many unique things about her family life, schooling, and type of personality traits she displays as an individual.

Sister Dorothy Mae Stang was an outstanding woman who changed the lives of many people and in the process, sacrificed her life. Stang was born on July 7, 1931 in Dayton, Ohio but became a naturalized Brazilian. (Dorothy Stang 1). She died on February 12, 2005 at the age of 73 in the city of Anapu, Para in Brazil (Dorothy Stang 1). She had learned that she was being called in to the life of God and decided to become a nun and professed her final vows in 1956. She began her work teach in Illinois and Arizona. Stang was later sent to Brazil to work in the Amazon rain-forest to help poor farmers build independent futures for their families (Sister Dorothy 1). In Brazil she worked with the Pastoral Land Commission, an organization of the Catholic Church that fights for the rights of rural workers and peasants, and defends land reforms in Brazil (About Sister Dorothy 1). Sister Dorothy also wanted to protect peasants from criminal gangs working for ranchers who were

In today’s generation, everything is more easily accessible through handheld devices. Information and messages could easily come across through social media. For one woman, her life was potentially saved all thanks to social media.

Nellie Bly is the nickname of the American investigative newspaper reporter, Elizabeth Jane Cochran. Elizabeth was renowned for her reportage of social justice issues and her willingness to undertake “daredevil” undercover investigations; which famously included getting herself committed to an insane asylum so she could report on the conditions there. Elizabeth is also renowned for her travel around the world in seventy-two days.

Elaine Grenoble Dudley was my nana who, unfortunately, died when I was only seven years old. I do not remember much about her, I only have small memories of visiting her with my family when she was alive. This being so, I have heard so much about her from my mother. Everything from her meeting my late grandfather to her career in the air force to her role as a mother to my mom and my uncles has all been explained to me over the years since her passing. From what I have heard, she was an amazing, independent woman. I have heard so many amazing things about her in fact that one day I hope to have a daughter that I can name after her. If I could go back and relive one day, I would go back to one of those days where I visited her for a few