Nellie Bly Research Paper

Marjorie Lee Browne was born on September 9, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Marjorie childhood was very rough, her mother passed when she was two . Right after Marjorie mother passed her father was soonly remarried to his new wife Lottie Lee so Lottie helped raise Marjorie. Her father was a railway postal clerk, and stepmother Lottie lee, a school teacher. Growing up Marjorie up into segregation so she went to a private high school called LeMoyne high school. Even through these times Marjorie parents pushed her to better and to not worry about going to a all black school.

Cecily Brown is an active and acclaimed painter born in London in 1969. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts from Slade School of Fine Art in 1993. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1995 and has been exhibited in institutions across the United States and Europe such as Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Gallery, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Her work can be described as tension filled scenes that drift over the border of figuration and abstraction, which often results in her categorization as a “Neo-Expressionist” or a feminist Abstract Expressionism.

Nellie Bly was born May 5th, 1864 in a small town called Cochran Mills in Pennsylvania. Nellie’s real name is Elizabeth Cochrane. Nellie was a Journalist; she began her newspaper career at the age of 18. Nellie got her pseudonym from her editor, who refused to openly allow a female to write for his paper.

Being born and raised in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Hazel Winifred Johnson was one out of seven children and had many responsibilities at a young age. The entire family lived on a farm on Valley

     Born in Cederville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement of Hull House. From Hull House, where she lived and worked from it’s start in 1889 to her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country’s most prominent women through her writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. In 1931, she became the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Annie Easley was born on April 23,1933, In Birmingham Alabama. Easley and her brother were raised by thaier single mother Mary Melvin Hoover. Her mother was one of her greatest inspirations and her role model, she always encouraged her to get a good education. In an oral history interview with NASA, she said that her mother always used to tell her "You can be anything you want to. It doesn't matter what you look like, what your size is, what your color is. You can be anything you want to, but you do have to work at it." Annie Easley attended school in Birmingham and graduated as the valedictorian of her grade. At that time Easly Wanted to become a nurse because she thought it was one of the only careers open to black women. However, later on

Lorraine O’Gradys’ unintentionally historic performances, seemingly elevate everyday life to the status of art. In her ‘exhibit’ at the Studio Museum, her work is represented through photographs, in ‘Art is…’. Thirty years ago, O’Grady presented ‘Art is’ in the form of a float in the African American Day Parade right here in Harlem. Performers pranced with empty frames, metaphorically capturing fleeting pictures of the people and places that surrounded the route of the parade. By doing so, the trappings of high art were brought out of the museum, into the street, which promotes a new way people might begin to recognize this new art form in the celebrations of every day life. The

Chisholm’s maiden name was Shirley Anita St. Hill, born on November 30, 1924. Chisholm was born in the impoverished Bedford-Stuyvesant section of New York. Her father was an emigrant from Guyana who worked as an unskilled laborer. Her mother who was a native of Barbados, she was a seamstress along with a domestic worker. Due to their lack of money Chisholm's parents had to separate Chisholm along with her three other sisters, for much of their childhood. The separation forced Chisholm and her siblings to move to a farm in Barbados with their grandmother. She received a British elementary school education and acquired a Western Indian speech,

The previously known Anita Lorraine Lynch, born on November 2nd 1959, married her husband John Cobby on March 27th 1982 whilst studying to be a Registered Nurse. Although at the time of the murder, Anita was living with her parents in Blacktown, NSW.

In his column, "Quiet Observations," Erasmus Wilson portrayed the notion that women of the day were "useless outside the sphere of marriage" (Wildemuth, 1999). This infuriated Cochran, and she quickly sent a heated letter to the editor of The Dispatch, signed "Lonely Orphan Girl" (Toth, 1994). The newspaper's editor was so taken with her letter that he asked her to reveal herself, and within a week, offered her a writing position with the publication (Toth 1999). It was then, at the young age of 20, that Cochran adopted the pen name "Nellie Bly."

Mrs. Bessie Vanburen was born in July 1816 to Mary and David Windburn. She grew up in the small town of Mcbee, South Carolina, where Bessie’s father was a poor dirt farmer, and her mother an underpaid seamstress. Bessie attended school in her small town, and as she approached her sixteenth birthday, a new teacher came to town.

Ella Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia on December 13, 1903. She moved to Littleton, North Carolina around the age of 7 years old. Growing up her grandmother told her many stories from her experiences in slavery, which aiding Baker a sense of social justice. Her grandmother was an inspiration to her throughout her life because of the strength and self-respect her grandmother had through difficult times. The stories that were told were a key factor of who Ella Baker became. The injustice, racism, and abuse that were indicated towards African Americans she believed that there was not going to be an end to it unless someone would put up a fight for social justice and equality.

Florence Kelley is considered one of the great contributors to the social rights of workers, particularly women and children. She is best known as a prominent Progressive social reformer known for her role in helping to improve social conditions of the twentieth century. She has been described as a woman of fierce fidelity (Goldmark, 1953). Kelley was a leading voice in the labor, suffragette, children’s and civil rights movements. She was also a well-educated and successful woman, a rare combination during the turn of the twentieth century.

On May 24, 1933, a role model, advocate for women’s rights, and a literary star was born. Marian Engel was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a single eighteen year old girl, and put up for adoption. Frederick Searle and Mary Elizabeth (Fletcher) Passmore adopted a beautiful baby named Ruth, who they renamed Marian. Marian spent her younger years growing up in a variety of towns across Southern Ontario as her family moved frequently for her father’s work. Engel began her education at Sarnia Collegiate Institute & Technical School in Sarnia, Ontario, and later continued on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She graduated from McMaster in 1955 and without hesitation, enrolled in a Master’s program for

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of eight children, and knew the meaning of hardships. Her parents built the towns very first cotton mill, and were an active part of the abolitionist movement. This was a bold membership, given the time period. They were so passionate about the