On April 22, 1921, Mrs. William A. Servin and her daughter-in-law, both members of the Nyack Women’s Club, went for a hike along Pearl River; a hamlet located roughly twenty miles from Manhattan and just north of the New Jersey border. After traveling along a grown-over path the two women happened upon four children they later described as, “so wretchedly clad and so encrusted with dirt as to seem scarcely human.” Disturbed by the children’s unkempt appearance and fearful for their overall well-being, Mrs. Servin contacted the county truant officer and local law enforcement to investigate.
Investigators returning to the scene discovered an entire family—father, mother, and four children—occupying an abandoned shack that might have housed
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Although there were the occasional reports of moonshining or a drunken feud “their most serious offenses [were] against the laws of hygiene.” Although the Thompson’s way of life closely resembled the Jackson Whites’ their benefactors were adamant they were different. Instead, Pearl River authorities “claimed for the Thompsons that identity of a “pure-white people, in this respect different from the clan inhabiting the Ramapos.” Despite the efforts of their benefactors to distance the Thompsons from the racially mixed people of the Ramapos, news
Hue Jackson is not at all surprised with the way Deshaun Watson is playing as a rookie.
Maynard Jackson Jr., born March 23, 1938, in Dallas Texas. The family moved to Atlanta in 1945 where his father took pastor ship of Friendship Baptist Church. His mother Irene Dobbs Jackson, a professor of French at Spellman College, in 1959 Jackson mother became the first African American to receive a library card, thereby integrating that institution.
My childhood was very hard. At the age of 17, I was an orphan. My mother was a writer and my father was a minister, author and professor of Latin, Greek and philosophy. My mother died and then, three years later, my father died. I went to live with my aunt. My brothers died and I was heartbroken.
Bryan Johnson: a son, a brother, a uncle, a friend, a lover, a athlete and outdoor enthusiast. Bryan Johnson is a man with many hats, depending on the day you may see several of these. When he is not working, Bryan loves to be in the outdoors or spend time with his family. Bryan is tough as nails, however, on the inside he is softer then cotton candy.
Lyndon B. Johnson was born near Stonewall, Texas on August 27th, 1908. Interested in politics since childhood and born the son of a politician, Johnson did well in highschool and eventually began a career as a teacher. In November of 1931, Sam Ealy, Johnson’s father, recommended Johnson for a position in the office of US House of Representatives member, Richard Kleberg. Lyndon acted as his secretary and head of Kleberg’s office until his retirement. In September of 1934, Johnson met his soon to be wife, Claudia Alta Taylor. They married 24 hours hours after meeting and later had two daughters, Lynda Bird and Luci Baines. In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Johnson head of the state branch of the National Youth Administration. Later on,
When the United States of America joined World War 1 in 1917 the rst of the world had been at war for three years. The U.S. deployed an estimated 4,355,000 troops to around the world. Around 204,004 of them returned home injured. Henry Johnson was one of those soldiers.
On August 27, 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson was born to Sam and Rebekah Johnson.; he was the first of their five children. He was born near the central Texas community of Johnson City, which was named for some of his relatives. His family included some of the earliest settlers of the Lone Star State. They were cattlemen, cotton farmers, and soldiers for the Confederacy. Lyndon’s father, Sam Johnson, had won the election to the Texas legislature and he served five terms before he switched careers and became a farmer. He had a very strong relationship with his mother, Rebekah Johnson.
Before we get to Whitey McWhitte VIII we got to understand his family’s history. In Africa in 1852 there was a free white slave named Whitey McWhitte, he used to be a slave until their country got in a civil war. The war was between north and the south; if the north won then all the white slaves would be free and if the south won then all the black slave masters could keep their slaves forever. President of this country was Kunta Negro and he wants to free the slaves but a general in the south name John F. Kennedy wanted to keep the slaves because it’s part of their history and heritage. So they fought for 30 years and finally the north won and all the slaves were finally free. A slave named Whitey McWhitte was free to pursue his life being
There were several survivors during the Holocaust and one of them was Eugene Black. His life was very hard and intense, but in the end it all turned out to be good for him. Eugene was born in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He had a happy life with his family of three sister and a brother. Two of his sister's names were Paula and Jolan. Eugene’s mother came from an orthodox Jewish family but his father, who was a master tailor, did not.
Hampton University history, Samuel Chapman Armstrong. He was a key factor in the construction of Hampton, and everything that it is today. He was born in Maui, Hawaii. He attended Punahou school, and at the age of 21 moved to Massachusetts where he graduated from Williams college. After that, he spent his life advocating for equality, justice, and education. From his outstanding leadership in the military, to his valiant efforts in promoting the education of blacks, Armstrong proved himself to be a man of character.
Spending much of her childhood in the German Coast of Acadiana, Darleen Jenkins holds on tightly to her family traditions. Moving from Luling to Houma, down to Dularge and back up to Houma again, she has been able to spot differences in the regions’ foods based on both time and place. She reminisces fondly of times when her family came together to share in meals and memories. Speaking with her one couldn’t help but to want to hear more about her childhood and transitions through adulthood.
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner wrote an essay called, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” in which he debated about the prestige of the American democracy and culture. Turner presented his essay at an American Historian Association in Chicago during World’s Fair in 1893; even though at that time his essay was ignored, it gained remarkable recognition and was labeled as an especially influential piece of American writing. In addition, Turner pointed out that having cheap, vacant land has been the foundation the American democracy. The Chicago World’s Fair offered variety of American and World cultural aspects, but despite having a wide range of cultures on display the whites of the fair were racists and labeled the African Americans as the “moral monster”. Turner’s thesis ignored the Natives along with their cultures and implied that the white Christian ways should be more dominant.
Who is Marshall Applewhite? Applewhite was an American cult leader who founded what became known as heaven's gate religious group and organized his mass suicide in 1997. In 1972, applewhite met a woman who's name was Bonnie Lu Nettles, later they would decide that they were “the two” mentioned in the book of revelation, and they were on special spiritual mission.
June 26, 1995, was not a typical day for Dottie Pease. As she turned down Pinto Drive, Pease saw eleven men swarming across her carefully manicured lawn. Their attention seemed to be focused on the back yard of the house next door, specifically on a large wooden potting shed that abutted the chain-link fence dividing her property from her neighbor’s. A middle-aged couple, Michael Polasek, Patty Hahn and her son -who only lived there on some weekends and holidays- David Hahn, lived there. Three of the men had donned ventilated moon suits and were proceeding to dismantle the potting shed with electric saws, stuffing the
In Jackson and Schines’ study, “Single Mother’s Efficacy, Parenting in the Home Environment, and Children’s Development in a Two-Wave Study” (2003), children's cognitive and behavioral development was examined in single-parent families in terms of the level of intellectual stimulation at home, quality of parenting, and relationship between the parents. For this study, 178 single black mothers whose children were between three and five years old were randomly asked to participate in this study, which consisted of answering questions about their employment levels, self-efficacy beliefs, depressive symptoms, and relationship with the child's father, to begin to understand how these factors and children's development relate. The article was confusing