Life For Harland David Sanders

Jesse Owens' childhood was unparalleled to any other child's with how hard it was. His parents struggled to get everyone in his family fed since their family consisted of twelve people (“Jesse Owens”). Many of his siblings were too busy to help their parents because of school. Jesse Owens was still too young for school which led to Owens

Allen Jr. graduated cum laude from Georgia Tech in the worst year of the Great Depression. Soon after commencement, he went to work for his father’s business, the Ivan Allen Company, which sold office supplies and furniture. At the time, it was one of Atlanta’s most successful businesses, grossing $196,000 in 1933. That summer, he worked in the basement of the company headquarters as an apprentice to a black employee by the name of Arthur Wright. In 1936, he began a side occupation in politics by campaigning for then Georgia Governor Ed Rivers and afterwards holding a number of state government positions. Allen Jr. also continued his work for the family business until he was drafted into the army in 1942 to serve in the Second World War, interrupting both careers for a while.

Barry Sanders was born in Wichita, Kansas, on July 16, 1968. Barry’s favorite sport was basketball when he was just a kid, but his dad steered him toward football. Barry attended Wichita North High School. Sanders was a second string running back up until the last five games of his senior season. His coaches didn’t play him much because of his fear of getting hit. The last five games Sanders started doing amazing things. Sanders rushed for more than 1,000 yards in his last five games. The total was 1,417 yards for the year. That was a citywide record. (Net Industries, 2017)

When Jackie Robinson was a kid, he lived a hard life with a family of seven. It was his older brother Matthew that inspired Jackie to play baseball.

On august 9th, 1986 Deon sanders Jr. was born. Now he is a 21 year old NCAA football player with a lot of talent. He plays for the SMU mustangs and they are 1- 11 at least. He has never made a touchdown yet but he will. As a kid sanders Jr. wanted to play football just like his dad. He has changed his dads life forever, he has made his dad proud he has made his dad mad but, he tried and gave it his all.

In a Very short-lived career, Barry sanders changed the game of football forever. Standing only five feet, eight inches tall, Barry didn’t let his size keep him from doing what he loved. With Sanders being that little it made him and even more lethal opponent to the defense.

On January 31, 1919, a kid by the name of Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. He surely did not know that he would be one day an american hero. His father was Jerry Robinson, a plantation worker. His mother was Mallie, she was a domestic worker. Jackie had three brothers and one sister. The four brothers were: Edgar, Frank and Mack. The sister was Willa Mae. Frank and Edgar are no longer alive, but Mack and WIlla still live in Pasadena, California. His dad left Mallie and the children, never to return, when Jackie was six months old. When

“Jackie Robinson was born on the thirty first day of January in 1919”. (biography.com) He was born to a family of sharecroppers in the town of Cairo Georgia, but Jackie grew up in Pasadena California. (Jackie Robinson official website) Jackie grew up being raised by only his mother and his older siblings helped out as well. He had four siblings, three older brothers and one sister. (Britannica encyclopedia) Jackie was the youngest of five kids and they all helped out each other in school, sports, and chores. The Robinson family was the only African American family on their block, but the bias acts of the white people surrounding them didn’t hurt them, but prepared them for their future. (Jackie Robinson official website) Jackie’s older brother Matthew gave him his inspiration to take on sports just as he did. He has always had a huge love for sports in his childhood years. (Jackie Robinson book pg: 4)

Robinson’s childhood was filled with discrimination and poverty, he and his 4 older siblings were segregated for their race. An article on Jackie Robinson states, “Robinson's mother worked various odd jobs to support the family. Growing up in relative poverty in an otherwise affluent community,

One of Asher 's and Ruth 's sons, Theodore Asher (b 1845) enlisted in the Ohio Infantry in 1862 on turning 17, due to the Civil War. On his discharge, the following year, he sought a job as a railway clerk similar to his brother Cornelius to provide additional income for their mother, Ruth, as Asher had died in 1866, one year after the Civil War. Before Theodore married Mary Ann (née Lee, b 1845) in 1872, Theodore personal wealth was $1000 (about $20,000 in todays dollars), a decent amount for a 27 year old. Is was certainly enough to start a family with. Theodore and Mary named their first child Deforest Lee.

worked driving a grocery wagon at the age thirteen to help support his family. He had eight

some tough times and ended up joining a gang before his friend made him abandon it. He had a wife named Rachel Robinson. He had 1 daughter Sharon along with his two sons Jackie

What was Jackie's life like growing up? For starters, he was born in Cairo, Georgia on January, 31st 1919. Next, he was born to Jerry and Mallie Robinson; he was the youngest of five kids. He had three older brothers, Edgar, Frank, and Mack. He also had a sister that was younger than the boys, but two years older than Jackie. Her name was Willa Mae. Sadly, Jackie’s dad left the family for their neighbor’s wife and he was never seen or heard of again. To add, Jackie was only 16 months old when his dad left them.

Born in Mississippi in 1936, his father died when he was a child, where he then moved to Memphis Tennessee in 1940. The third out of ten children, Marion and his siblings worked multiple jobs at a young age to help family make ends meet; jobs included delivery boy, picking cotton, and bagging groceries. Experiencing culture shock moving from a rural area to an urban area, adapting to the city life was a challenge.

They were going to make slaves understand there way of life by any means necessary and this sometimes meant vigorous lashings or even death. Although this way of life put fear in a lot of slaves and forced them to accept this way of life Henry never let fear conquer his desire for freedom. Henry’s passion for freedom was a refusal to accept the white society’s story that he was meant to be a slave and other degrading things white southerners called blacks. It also showed his refusal to accept the fact that he was not a human being and he as well as other historical slaves fought for acknowledgement as a human being. Henry Bibb was born in May of 1815, by his mother who was a slave named Milldred Jackson, and his father James Bibb. Henry did not know too much about his father because he died before Henry could really get a chance to know him. Henry is the oldest of seven children who are all boys. Henry was born in Shelby County, Kentucky, and was claimed as the property of a slave owner named David White Esq. He came into possession of Henry’s mother long before Henry was born. Henry was raised in slavery and he never got a chance to know was freedom was.