The Rise And Fall Of Evelyn Nesbit

The article goes into detail as to what happened and what led to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of February 14, 1929. It retells the story of that day and the people involved in the shooting. It talks about how the massacre was done because of power over bootlegging between Al Capone’s gang and Bugs Moran crew.

The police came quickly to the big mansion, and the investigation of the kidnapping was started. It was known to be the crime of the century.

The Lizzie Borden case has mystified and fascinated those interested in crime forover on hundred years. Very few cases in American history have attracted as much attention as the hatchet murders of Andrew J. Borden and his wife, Abby Borden. The bloodiness of the acts in an otherwise respectable late nineteenth century domestic setting is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-

In the 1960s a murder was taken place, the Egan murders. This included Peter, Barbara, and Gerald Egan. The finally verdict ended being that their prime suspect and accused (Jo Leone) was found innocent, primary due to the jury receiving personal threats as well as the prosecutor, who didn’t seem to press hard enough on the defendant.

Born Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it is reported that her birth certificate actually reads “Elinore Harris.” Sarah Juliea “Sadie” Fagan was the loving mother and Clarence Holiday the presumed but often not present father. The only stability found in Holiday’s life was when her mother, Sadie, married Philip Gough for a few years, sadly they later divorced. Growing up, Holiday spent the majority of her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a music enthusiast from the beginning, enjoying Bessi Smith and Louis Armstrong.

A little over a century ago an atrocious double murder was committed, in the two-half story house at 92 Second Street, in Fall River, Massachusetts. This crime shocked the city of Fall River, as well as the nation, as Lizzie Borden, a 32-year-old Sunday school teacher, went on trial for the murder of her father and her stepmother. (Augustine). An all male jury eventually acquitted her on the accusations.(Aiuto). To this day, the murderer of Andrew J. Borden and Abby Gray Borden is still unknown, but in the public mind everyone believes it was Lizzie Borden.

On a hot morning on august 4, 1892, Mr. Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Borden, were brutally murdered. A daughter of the victims, Lizzie Borden was arrested, tried and acquitted of the crime. “ She was a woman of spotless character and reputation, and more than that she was educated, refined and prominently connected with the work of the Christian church in the Fall River”(Gates 2).The town and the country were divided in their opinions of who could commit such horrifying murders. Many theories have been made to explain that day; the finger has been pointed in every direction- even a Chinese Sunday school student of Lizzies. To this day people are unsure as to weather or not Lizzie brutally murdered her parents.

The 1920’s are really only known for the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash, nobody ever really talks about all the horrible things in crime. Even though these events were really important, they don’t really shine light on the crazy mysteries. Some of these unsolved mysteries may even been

In conclusion, the Haymarket affair took the lives of innocent who were fighting for a better life. The influence that the press and big employers had on society caused the men accused to be convicted without any evidence proving them guilty. Society thought the police were serving justice when their motives were to get revenge. The actions taken by the press, police, and big employers were exactly what the Labor Movement was fighting against, and for that they paid the ultimate

Fannies parents were sharecroppers in the Mississippi delta area. Their names were Ella Townsend and James Lee Townsend. Fannie was the youngest out of 19 brothers and sisters. She was married to Perry Hamer from 1944 till 1977. She was not able to have any children due to surgery to remove a tumor. Fannie was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi; she was born into poverty. She worked in the cotton fields when she was 6 years old, and had to leave school because she could not afford to go. Fannie Lou Hamer died on March 14, 1977 in a hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi because of breast cancer and severe kidney damage.

Her mother, Olive Pickering, a school teacher, married John Rankin, a rancher, in August of 1879. On June 11, 1880 Jeannette was born, making her the first child of seven. She was born in Missoula County, Montana and went to college at Montana State University (now University of Montana.) In 1902 she graduated and went to the New York School of Philanthropy. She served as a social worker in Spokane, Washington for a short time and moved to Seattle, Washington to attend the University of Washington. There she joined the woman suffrage movement.

In the presentation by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Glenn’s main idea was on how colonial settler legacies have created a line of segregation on race and gender which determines U.S. Citizenship. Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is well educated in her studies of gender and women studies. Glenn used points from Joan Acker, a mentor to her, who is a feminist sociologist. The lecture circulated the topic of race and gender operating as central citizenship of America because it creates exclusion of groups. The founding fathers excluded many people such as African Americans, Women, Asians, Latinos, and American Indians. They used citizenship and rights as a gift to races. Citizenship was always contradicted

Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12th, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey. She had a good childhood, she lived with both of her parents, her younger sister Jane, and her 5 cats. As a child, Ann loved to write and babysit. She wanted to become a teacher when she grew up, and was able to experience different parts of the United States,

Florence Cope Bush of Knoxville, TN was known for her lifelong fascination of her birthplace, the Great Smokey Mountains. Hence why she would go on to write multiple books about the historic landsite, including Dorie: Woman of the Mountains. Due to the adverse deaths

On July 27, 1948, in San Jose, California, Albert and Doris Fleming gave birth to a figure skating star(1). Starting at age 9, Peggy had many coaches, but the most important was Carlo Fassi, who was her guide to the Olympics (1). At the age of 12, Fleming's older coach was among those killed, in a plane crash, with the U.S. figure skating team in Belgium(2). When Fassi took over Peggy’s coaching, it was the beginning of her fame. From 1964 to 1968 Fleming dominated World Level Women’s competition(1). Peggy’s first appearance was at the 1964 Winter Games in Innsbruck, Austria with 6th place, and by 1968 was when she turned professional(1). That year, she produced crowning achievement at the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble, France, and was rewarded