Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton “was born on October 26, 1947, at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois”. She was raised in a family that was United Methodist. Rodham's family first lived in Chicago, Illinois in which her father Hugh Rodham made a small successful textile business. As for her mother, she was a homemaker. Her father was of English and Welsh descent while her mother was “from Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish and Welsh Descent”. During young Rodhams life, she was generally liked by her teachers at the Park Ridge school which she attended. While in school she participated in swimming and softball in which she won plenty of badges. While “on a trip to Chicago with her youth ministry Rodham had the chance to see Martin Luther King Jr. speak which sparked her lifelong passion for social justice.” In her early years, she was interested in the Space Race, she sent a letter to NASA asking them what …show more content…
While in college she became for interested in social justice activism. In college, she majored in political science. Rodham “had become a prominent student leader-she was elected by her peers to be the first ever student speaker at Wellesley commencement ceremony” according to Hillary Clinton's website. She supported elections of Republicans like “John Lindsay to Mayor New York City and Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke to the United States Senate”(Brock 1996, pp. 12–1). In her junior year in college Rodham was elected for the “presidential nomination campaign of Democrat Eugene McCarthy” according to New York Times article by Mark Leibovich. After Martin Luther King Junior’s death “Rodham organized a two-day student strike and worked with Wellesley's black student to recruit more black student and faculty”(Leibovich, 2007). When Rodham got fired from the Mount McKinley National Park washing dishes she striked about the unhealthy conditions in which it ran and got shut down
Hillary Rodham Clinton was born in 1947 as Hillary Diane Rodham and began her political ascension in the late 1970s decade. Her political interests revolve much around the creation of a better life for the middle class Americans, and in this effort, she has placed an increased emphasis on developing a better health care legislation and coverage.
In 1963, four black girls were killed in a bombing of a church, the bombing took place in her hometown and it became known as the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. This sparked a passion in Davis for philosophy because she was personally affected by the bombing, she knew two of the people killed in it. As a result of this tragedy she joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and then the Black Panther Party.
After finding out about Emmett Till’s tragic death and the many others who were slaughtered and tortured she became a student activist and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) organization to fight for their own
Daisy Bates was a civil rights activist who used her bravery and persistence to fight for basic human rights. For instance, Bates and her husband received many threats “She received numerous death threats and she and her husband were forced to close The Arkansas Press” (Biography.com). Bates never let the threats get to her and she continued to fight for what she believed in. Because she never gave up, Bates received many awards “ She was named Woman of the Year by the National Council of Negro Women in 1957.” (Biography.com). Bates was proudly awarded the Women of the year. One of Bates’ greatest accomplishments was the integration of Little Rock’s Central High “Daisy proudly led these students to do this, which is a great accomplishment in provoking change in America” (Biography.com). Bates helped the nine integrating students without fear even when it got hard for her. Daisy Bates was a courageous fighter who persevered and fought for basic human rights.
Hillary Clinton was born on October 26,1947, in Chicago, Illinois. Hillary Clinton was active in young Republican groups and even campaigned for Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in 1964. She shifted to the Democrat party in 1968 after hearing a speech by the
Hillary Rodham Clinton was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois in 1947. Hillary was brought up in a time when America was still run by traditional values and women mostly stayed at home and were house wives. However, Hillary Clinton succeeded in being a woman who did not let the traditional values of the people around her stop her from making a change and from an early age, she showed qualities of a leader. Her father, who was general a traditionalist, too believed that Hillary would succeed in all her doings and encouraged her to work hard and not let the fact that she was a female stop her from achieving her goals. Therefore, after attaining her early education, she attended Wellesley College and then also graduated from the Yale School of Law. Thereafter, she got a job as a Congressional legal counsel in Arkansas, and also got married to Bill Clinton. Although, she had done quite a lot even before her marriage, her new life with Bill Clinton and their support for each other opened another chapter in Hillary's success story.
September 1st 2015 would have marked Roberta Hope's 30 years of service and ministry with the Baptist Union of Scotland. Normally we do not circulate fundraising information in Connect, however, Jenny Wilson (a Union staff member) will be running a 10k in October specifically in memory of Roberta and is raising money for the Beatson Cancer Charity. If you would like to support Jenny in her efforts you can do so at,
This allowed her to learn more about issues such as civil rights, women's rights, and the Vietnam War because she wasn't as exposed to these issues at her high school. She was against the Vietnam War, and she was pro civil rights and pro women's rights, which are traits that are more commonly found in Democrats. This convinced her that she should become a Democrat. She applied for Harvard and Yale, and she got accepted into both. She had a hard time make the decision on where to go, but she went to Yale after she heard a professor comment on there already being too many women there. She got a degree in Law because she believed that the best way to work towards social justice was through public service and politics. Her focus was on Family Law. At Yale, she met Bill Clinton and started dating
To begin with, Hillary Clinton has been concentrated on structuring her credentials by becoming the leader of the United States in the elections of November 8th, 2016. She was the first child and only girl of her family, she was born in Chicago, Illinois. Around her third birthday, the family decided to move houses in the suburb Ridge Park. While, living in the neighborhood from then on, she attended public schools, but her high school was pure white people. As a kid, she
I´m Victoria Lockwood and these are my friends Trevor,Jackson,and Buffy.Trevor is 13 and the youngest of all and Jackson is the 16 and the oldest.Buffy and I are the same age we are 15.We do everything together we go on jogs,eat,joke around etc….. This morning was not the same.We went on our jog at 6am everything was always the same until now.
Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She was eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. In 1971, she first came to Washington D.C to work with the U.S Senator Walter Mondale’s sub-committee on migrant workers. In the spring of 1947 Clinton became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff,
Hillary Clinton was born on october 26th, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois, going on to earn her law degree from yale university. She married fellow law school graduate Bill Clinton in 1975, SHe later served as first lady dorm 1993-2001. When Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S senate in 2002 she became the first american first lady to ever win a public office seat.
As he’s stated himself “ i was raised as an indonesian child, a Hawaiian child, a black child, and a white child.” Around Obama’s fifth grade year, his mother sent him back to Hawaii to live with her parents and continue his schooling from fifth grade to graduation from high school from the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois, to her father Hugh Rodham and her mother Dorothy Howell. She is the eldest of the three children her parents had, her two younger brothers being named Hugh and Tony. She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois which was located fifteen miles northwest from downtown Chicago. Hillary grew up with her father being an abusive Republican who believed in a small government and the individual responsibility and hard working for what you want in life and her mother being a Democrat who instilled in Hillary empathy for people caught up in struggles that are outside of their control. Clinton stated in her memoir “ I grew up between the push and tug of my parents’ values, and my own political beliefs reflect both.” This is the result of her
Jane Fenstermacher is a strong and independant women. She is been around the world and back. She has gone through hard times and great times. She has created a booming business that she loves. Doesn't have have a lot of time for free time because of work and taking care of her parents which are both in there 90’s. Fenstermacher will keep pursuing her inspiring and creative business that is impulse.
Victoria Woodhull fought for everything she believed in, and died thinking she got nothing out of it. When she died in 1927, many people didn’t like her or didn’t agree with what she was fighting for. They didn’t think a female could be strong enough to accomplish what she was doing. Woodhull was born, on September 23 of 1838 into a family with an illiterate mother and a criminal father; thus giving her almost no formal education. Her, being the eldest of her siblings, got a job in fortune telling at a young age to support her family. For a while she was seen as a nobody and even thought about herself as one too.