Kelly Miller was born on July 18, 1863. He was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina. He was the sixth of 10 children. His father name was Kelly Miller Sr. He was a Confederate soldier. His mother name was Elizabeth Roberts. She was a former slave. As a child, he went to a grammar school that had been founded during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War. A local minister noticed his curiosity for math and organized for Miller to attend the Fairfield Institute. His journey there eventually earned him a scholarship to Howard University. He graduated Howard University in 1886. In 1887, his professors recommended him to go to Johns Hopkins University. He became the first black man to be admitted to go to Johns Hopkins University. He went back
His father, Kelly Miller Sr., was a Confederate soldier, and his mother, Elizabeth Roberts, was a former slave. He was the sixth of ten children. As a child, he attended a grammar school that's been established during the Reconstruction era following the Civil war. A local minister noticed his natural ability to be able to do math and arranged for Miller to attend the Fairfield Institute, where he eventually earned him a scholarship to Howard university. In Howard he excelled in Latin and Greek as well as math and sociology. After graduating from Howard in 1886, he secured a position in the U.S. Pension Office, where he had clerked as an undergrad. In 1887, due in part to the suggestion of his professors and the institution's Quaker inclination, he became the first black man to be welcomed to study at Johns Hopkins University, where he did post-graduate work in mathematics, physics and astronomy until
As a young man Mosby attended St. Charles College in St. Charles, Missouri. He became very interested in law and studied law at the firm of James W. Morrow. Finally in 1846 he was admitted to the Missouri
Herman Hudson was born in Biringham, Alabama in 1923 and grew up to get his bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees from the university of michigan. He had a long career at teaching at other colleges and universitys until the landed at Indiana University. During his time there he established all of the African American studies institues at the college and helped inprove race relations among the community.
Thad Cochran was born on December 7, 1937 in Pontotoc, Mississippi to Democrat educators William Cochran and Emma Cochran. He attended college at the University of Mississippi and earned his B.A. degree in psychology with a minor in political science. In 1961, Cochran enrolled at the School of Law at the University of Mississippi and won the Frederick Hamel Memorial Award, which was awarded to the student with the highest GPA in the first year class. While in law school, Cochran served on the editorial board for the Mississippi Law Journal. Here he was given the opportunity to argue before the Mississippi Supreme Council in a moot court, from there he became chairman of the Honor Council. He went on to win a fellowship to study jurisprudence
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The story of this great man begins in South Carolina, James was born in Sumter South Carolina in 1932. James wouldn’t be who he ended up being without the help of his parents, Emmett Conyers, who received his bachelor’s degree in the 1920s from the great Morehouse College in South Carolina and later worked in the colleges printing office until his final days of retirement. Also James had a very motivational mother who pushed her children to the best of their abilities, Crenella Conyers. She received her degree from
First of all, his childhood has a great affects on him. His actual name is Samuel Bode Miller but most people know him by just Bode. He was born on October 12th, 1977. Bode was born in Easton, New Hampshire. He comes from a family that has always skied. Miller’s grandparents got married, then moved to the white mountains of New Hampshire . They moved near a ski lodge on Copper Mountain and they started a family, soon Bode was born. He grew up having a simple life. The Miller family had no electricity and no plumbing. They cooked on a wood stove and used an outhouse. Due to this simplicity he was homeschooled till he was ten years old. When Bode was was two years old, he had a homemade snowboard that he would ride down his driveway. Then by the time he was four years, he was on skis. Bode skied every chance he got when there was snow on the ground.
Gene Tierney was born into a wealthy family on November 20, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York. Her full name is Gene Eliza Tierney. She was the daughter of an insurance broker and a wealthy socialite,so she grew up in a pretty lavish lifestyle. She was taught or educated into the finest or elite schools in the state of Connecticut and Switzerland. It is only after her education that her real life or Hollywood fame
in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an
Erin Matthews is a nine-year-old girl who does not talk to anyone due to prior bullying. The only people she talks to are her family, her twin sister, Skyler, her father, Kevin, and Hazel Brookson, her mother’s best friend, who is a marine biologist and head of sea creature rescue at Crystal Waters Aquarium.
Dr. Browne had a very good education, which was very rare because of racism,but her father still insisted on it. She went to a private high school that catered to black students. She then went to Howard University in Washington DC and then graduated cum laude in 1935. Then, a teaching job landed her at Gilbert Academy. She didn't stay long not even a year, and she went to Ann Arbor. When she went to
Thanks impart to Karen Clark who introduced a new way of dealing with catastrophic event, people were able to make close logical estimation of the magnitude of losses faced by insurers. Most notably, Clark was able to predict loses by “gathering very long-term historical data on hurricanes [and] combining those record with new data on property exposures [such as property] zip code, engineering reports, local building codes (p.6)” to model loses and profitability of catastrophic event. By doing so, she was able to lay a fundamental foundation of catastrophic risk modeling that various financial and insurance institutions heavily rely up on to some degree to this day.
In 1919, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. His family being sharecroppers, Jackie's mother, Mallie, raised Jackie and his four other siblings.(JackieRobinson.com) Being the only black family on the block, his family faced discrimination and racism from neighbors all around. From a humble beginning, Jackie was an outstanding athlete.(larrylester42.com) Jackie was promoted from Washington Junior High. Later, he entered John Muir High School after his junior high career. Recognizing his athletic ability, Robinson's older brothers inspired Jackie to pursue sports.(Jackierobinson.com)
He has grown up in an Austrian Jewish household since both his wealthy father ,Isidore Miller, who owned a women's clothing manufacturing business, and his mother Augusta Miller where of Austrian Jewish heritage. His family moved to Gravesend, Brooklyn after they lost almost everything in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which is why he delivered bread before school to help with the financial situation.
Abraham Harold Maslow was born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the first born to his parents, Samuel and Rose Maslow. He was a lonely and unhappy Jewish boy who spent most of his time in the library and among books as a means of comfort and refuge. However, in 1925 at the age of 17 he enrolled at the City College of New York. In 1926, he registered for evening classes at the Brooklyn Law School, then transferred to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1927. In 1928, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin and earned his Bachelor, Maters and Doctorate within the years 1930-1934.