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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

Thomas Jefferson is a well-known name in the United States history. Thomas Jefferson accomplished many goals and ideas during his lifespan. He was a founding father, he wrote the Declaration of Independence and serve as president for 2 terms from 1801 to 1809. During his first term as president, there was speculation of him having a relationship with Sally Hemings a slave. As of today, it is still unknown if it was true and if he was the father of 6. For two centuries there has been disagreement with this controversy however, there has been DNA test on Thomas Jefferson’s male descendants and Sally Hemings relatives and the real answer is still undiscovered.

One such author, poet Langston Hughes, wrote “Let America Be America Again.” Hughes is known for his portrayal of the African American life in America during the early to mid 1900’s. Hughes was born in 1902 in Missouri where his parents divorced when he was a young child. He was raised by his grandmother until his teenage years before he moved to live with his mother and her new husband. He was a college graduate from Lincoln University and was an award winning novelist. Another author, Edward McClelland, we don’t learn as much about. We know he grew up in an auto making town in the 1970s, a time during which middle-class America was strong and prosperous. McClelland tells us his ideology through personal experience, examples, and the use of some statistics. With our last author, meet D. Watkins, a college professor who has a master’s degree in education from John Hopkins University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Baltimore. (3) We

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

Ida Wells Barnett was born in Holly Springs, Missouri, on July 16, 1862, exactly 2 months and 6 days later prior to when United States President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves in Confederate-held territory. Ida attended Shaw University, also known as Rust College, a school that was established for freed men after the Civil War. Like her father, Ida attended Shaw University, but was expelled for rebellious behavior after a confrontation with the college president. While visiting family in the Mississippi Valley in 1878, at the age of 16, she became primary caregiver to her six brothers and sisters, when both of her parents and brother succumbed to yellow fever, leaving her and her five other siblings orphaned.

Would the advances of today be up to such standards without the writings of history? Diary’s and books show the way of life along with what did and did not work. Women such as Martha Ballard and Mary Jemison gave an insight into their life that would have not been accessible to the world we know.

Traditionally, African Americans were not even allowed an education. The racism of American citizens prevented that right. As civil rights were getting ratified, that fact change. However, it moved slower with African American women. Despite that, some great African American women were able to learn practical and technical skills that lead to the advancement of African Americans.

My name is Takesha Wright, I am the GAL assigned to Ethan Knotts-Campbell. I understand you've been assigned as GAL for Ethan's mother, Tennetta Knotts. Do you know if she is attending treatment and or parenting classes? If so, where and how does she feel this is going? Thanks in advance.

Slapping the school's bad boy is just another one of the embarrassing things Octavia Moore has to add to her list.

He explains, “I was only an American Negro—who had loved the surface of Africa—but I was not Africa. I was Chicago and Kansas City and Broadway and Harlem. I was not what she wanted me to be” (Hughes as quoted in Cobb 44). Hughes wants to make sure people are aware that the life and culture of African Americans differ drastically from the romantic view of the Negro in Africa. In his poem “Mother to Son,” Hughes provides the story of struggle, poverty overcame by hard work, and hope for a more dignified life for the entire African American people (Niemi 1). Hughes recognizes that despite being oppressed, the black community is strong enough to empower itself with determination to succeed. When discussing working-class life, Hughes consistently “asserts blacks as fully complex, fully human, and equals in the American democratic experiment” and does not play into the thought that blacks should be kept down (Sanders 107). Langston Hughes’ “concern for the lives and oppression of poor and working-class blacks” is apparent in most of his work (Sanders 107). Through his writing he makes the population aware of the deep-set oppression put upon the black community.

You can thank Diane Nash for the integration at lunch counters. DIane Nash is an African-American civil rights leader and renowned activist, who was very involved in the most important equality and desegregation movements and campaigns like the Freedom Rides, and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign,the Dr. Martin luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Diane Judith Nash was born May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in a middle class Catholic family, where her father, Leon Nash worked as a clerk in the military during WWII and her mother, Dorothy Bolton Nash who worked as a keypunch operator.Nash, attended both public and catholic schools growing up and once considered becoming a nun. As a teenager she won several beauty contests and in 1956, Nash graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago.

Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Anderson was the oldest of three girls, and at the age of six became a member in the choir at the Union Baptist Church. She was greatly supported by a her dad, whom later bought a piano at the age of eight. Her dad was an ice and coal dealer for a living. With Anderson’s family unable to afford lessons, Anderson taught herself.

I have learned a lot about Kris’s sharing his life of being LGBT member, and it was first time to meet in person who’s member of LGBT group. Kris talked about a lot of challenges and discriminations that LGBT people face, not only other people but their own families. I think discriminations against LGBT people won’t make us or them better, everyone wanted to love and loved for what they are or believe, if that’s what they say they are let them be. I think is very hard to feel unwelcome in your family, schools, jobs and many more places. I am Muslim and I believe god don’t make no mistakes, but we humans make mistakes and we shouldn’t be judging each other. A lot of people disagree about their different beliefs, but at the same time they respect

Ellen Hopkins was born on March 26, 1955 in Long Beach, CA. Ellen is a poet, freelance writer, and the award-winning author of twenty nonfiction titles and five NY Times Bestselling novels-in-verse. She has published hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from aviation to child abuse to wine growing. She is a regular speaker at schools, book festivals and writers conferences across the US, and now throughout the world. Hopkins was adopted at birth by an older couple. Albert C. Wagner was 72, and Valeria was 42. She graduated from Santa Ynez Valley Union High School in 1973. She went to study journalism in college (at Crafton Hills College at UCSB), but had to drop out to get married and start a family. Her stories are based off of real life

It’s sometimes hard to categorise a concept or an idea that hasn’t yet establish what that idea or concept is; especially when the designer, Alva Wilson who is best known for his fabulous hats rather than this new contemporary menswear collection.