Sister Dorothy Stang Research Paper

On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in her home on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard, the husband, denied any involvement in the murder but was presumed the killer.

It seems like Teen Mom 3 and 16 & Pregnant star Mackenzie Mckee's battle with diabetes is getting tougher and tougher for her. The young mom rushed to the hospital after she suffered complications from diabetes and her blood sugar went sky high.

Born Mary Jane Mcleod on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary Mcleod Bethune was a leading educator and civil rights activist. She grew up in poverty, as one of 17 children born to former slaves. Traveling miles each way, she walked to school each day and did her best to share her newfound knowledge with her family. Bethune later received a scholarship to the Scotia Seminary, a school for girls in Concord, North Carolina. After graduating from the seminary in 1893, she went to the Dwight Moody's Institute for Home and Foreign Missions in Chicago. Bethune complete her studies there two years later. Returning to the South, she began her career as a teacher. She married fellow teacher Albertus Bethune in 1898. The couple had one

Juanita Shanks was influential to Texas because of her role in civil rights and her involvement of the NAACP. “Shanks was a pivotal local, state, and regional organizer for the NAACP” (Venable). She was vastly determined about her work, and she wanted nothing more but equality for all people.

Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American female to go into outer space. Ever since she was a little girl she wanted to be an astronaut and on September 12, 1992, her dream came true. After being in the astronaut training program for over a year, she earned the title of science mission specialist. She was the person that conducted scientific experiments on the shuttle she was on, the Endeavour. She had six other astronauts with her on the shuttle on mission STS47 and conducted experiments on motion sickness and weightlessness on them and herself. She spent eight days in space and returned home on September 20, 1992.

On January 31, 2001 Logan Marr was found dead in an unfinished basement, yards of duct tape surrounding her, and a foster mother claiming that she just fell and hit her head. Sally Schofield, a respected caseworker at Maine's Department of Health and Human Services, had taken Logan in 2000. By 2001, 5 year old Logan would be dead. “I just want Sally Schofield out of my life forever,” Logan’s mother says, 16 years later, “She’s ruined my children’s lives and mine. She took an innocent child from this world for no reason.” Logan’s death was a tragedy that highlighted the problems in Maine's child welfare systems. The mistakes that were made were unforgivable, but a lesson learned from DHHS.

Have you ever heard of Harriet Stowe? Harriet was a Social Activist, author, teacher and supporter of the Underground Railroad. She wrote one of the most influential books in history, that made an enormous impact on civil rights.

By Amberley SparkesDel Kathryn Barton was born to two teachers in 1972, Sydney, New South Wales. She grew up on a hobby-style goat farm, obsessed with drawing from a young age. Barton suffered a cacophony of psychotic disorders, nothing of which doctors could officially diagnose. She escaped her reality of mental instability by emerging herself in drawing and arts. Barton went through several periods of “self loathing” and eating disorders, of which are reflected in many of Barton’s pieces. Barton explores ideas of femininity, exploring and understanding the female body and the stigmas associated with children and sexual representations

Susan Gregg was born on June 6th, 1970, in Stockton on Tees, England. When he was 12 years old he immigrated to Australia, with his Mum, his Dad and his younger brother, Phil. He has very few remaining memories of England. Some of the only things he remembers about his time there are when he used to play with the kids on his street, the fact that his family didn’t have a car, so he would have to walk to school, and that it was always cold. He can also remember travelling to Tunisia, Africa and camel riding in the Sahara Desert for 2 days, around a year before he moved to Australia. While they were in Tunisia Susan recalls locals offering to buy his brother due to his red hair, but their parents declined their offers. During their trip, he and

Mary Jane Goodridge was one tough lady. She drove an oxen team across the plains and even survived an oxen stampede.

Helen Pearl Burg is a very fascinating woman. Born on July 31, 1938, in a log cabin her father had built 4 miles North of the small town known as Dierks, AR.

Nellie McClung once said, "Never underestimate the power of a woman". Nellie believed that the purpose of a woman's life was to make the best contribution to the generation in which she is living; she went above and beyond this. Nellie McClung was one of the most impactful Canadian woman in history who achieved greatness through her personal experiences, the Mock Parliament, and the Famous Five. Nellie McClung was a legacy who is most remembered for her fight to get women the right to vote. At 23 years old, she married Wesley McClung; Nellie and Wesley then raised five children together.

Dorothy Height had given leadership to the skirmish for fairness and human rights for all people. Dorothy was born March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She was educated in the public schools in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small town where her and her family moved to when she was four years old. Her mother worked as a nurse for cancer patients, her father was a building contractor. Height was a straight-A student at Rankin High School, she also played center on a basketball team. She had graduated from Rankin High School at age 14, in 1926, she was younger than her classmates since the school had to advance her to grade levels. She went to college and she did further postgraduate work at Columbia University and the New York School of Social Work. While she is working as a case worker for the welfare department in New York in 1937. Height participated in virtually all over the major civil and human rights events throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Heights childhood was really upright and once

Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn in November 8th, 1897. Her entire family all took the writing field besides one of her three children. Day describes her young childhood at home as not very loving, especially coming from her father. Anytime she was standing in the presence of her father while she was at home, she remarks, “There was never a close embrace.” (Forest 4). However, it seemed that Day’s mother shared great affection and love for her children unlike her husband. Forest explains, “John, referring to Day’s father, seems to have found it easier to be with horses than with children.” In many books that discuss the life of Dorthy Day, Day’s father seemed to quote at times sayings from the Bible because he seemed to carry the book around

Elizabeth Freeman more commonly known as Mum Bett was born into slavery around the year of 1742. She spent most of her childhood and early adult years as a slave to a man named John Ashley and his wife, Hannah in Sheffield, Massachusetts alongside what historians believe to be her sister Lizzie. That was until Hannah, the wife, tried violently attacking and abusing Freeman’s sister in 1781. Mum Bett reported the incident to a local abolitionist who then brought her case to the courts. After a surprisingly short trial she became one of the first slaves to sue for her freedom and became a key factor in the abolishment of slavery in Massachusetts.