Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley was a carpenter and her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. Growing up she was sick most of the time and was a small child. Eventually her mother and father separated. Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery.
She had to leave because her mother, Amy Earhart, was under too much pressure and was working hard for the money she earned. But unfortunately, she could not afford to house two children at the time. Amy thought that Amelia could liven up her grandmother because there had been a loss. After Edwin Otis had found a new job in Iowa, he took his kids to the Iowa state fair. This is where she saw her first airplane, although it really didn’t make an impression on her.
At the age of 11 she was enrolled at the Montgomery Industrial School for girls once graduated, she went on to Alabama State Teacher's College High School. She, however, was unable to graduate with her class, because of the illness of her grandmother Rose Edwards and later her death. After this Rosa once again tries to return to Alabama State Teacher's College, which she did but then her mother also became ill, she then had to care for her mother and also their home. What made Rosa’s life special and also famous was her courageous act of activism. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa was asked to give her seat to a white man, she was extremely tired but she also knew that she had paid the bus fair just like everyone else and felt that she had the right to remain seated therefore, refused to grant her seat to the white man, reason why she then was arrested.
In 1920 Amelia flew for the first time to Los Angeles to visit her parents. She is later quoted as saying, “As soon as we left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.” Shortly thereafter Amelia began flying lessons with Neta Snook, who was the first female instructor graduate of the Curtiss School of Aviation. Amelia decided she wanted to buy a plane after just three hours of instruction. With $2000 from a loan from her mother and working as a mail-sorter, Amelia was able to buy her first plane. The plane was an experimental, yellow Kinner Airster which she named “The Canary”.
His legal name was Lee Conley Bradley and was one of seven children. Andrew, the oldest of the three boys, was born in 1882, followed two years later by Mattire, Rachel, born in 1887, James born in 1890, Sallie in 1892, Frank Jr. born in 1897, and Gustavia born in 1899. His father, Frank Broonzy (Bradley) and his mother, Mittie Belcher, has both been born into slavery. During his childhood they moved to Pine Bluff to work the fields. His life as a child was difficult because he received only minimal schooling.
Toni Morrison and the Bluest Eye Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford in February 18, 1931. Her parents were, Ramah Willis Wofford, mother and her father was George Wofford (Johnson Lewis 2010). She had family who were immigrants and sharecroppers from both of her parents’ side. They lived in Lorain, Ohio were she was the only African America student in her first grade classroom (Bois 1996). Both of her parents were hardworking, while growing up, Morrison also learned folktales and stories that taught her about her heritage (Bois 1996).
Her life greatly influenced literature today and the censorship that follows. On February 8, 1850, Katherine O’Flaherty was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Thomas O’Flaherty and Eliza Faris. She was their second born child and later in life became known as the famous author, Kate Chopin. Growing up in the South with and Irish father and a Creole mother, she was bilingual with English and French. (Ewell) Kate experienced much loss at a young age, three of her family members died by the time she was thirteen.
But then my cousin Dana decided to open up her own cheerleading gym with two other of her colleagues called Pittsburgh Empire cheerleading and dance inc. I switched over to that gym for a while but the drive out from my house to Canonsburg almost every night was too much to handle for my parents, they had different work schedules, plus I was on the Baldwin Vikings team. It was too much to handle so I decide to just stay on the Baldwin team, that’s were all
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in India in 1956 and resided there until 1976. At the age of 19 she left Calcutta , India for an education and traveled to the United States, after her extensive drive for an education in the field of English. She received her Masters in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio at the age of 20 and she received her Doctorate from the University of California at Berkley. She held many odd jobs for the satisfaction of the end result. She currently lives in Texas with her husband Murthy and her two sons Arand and Abhay.
Growing up, she was most widely influenced by her mother and grandmother after her father was killed in a train accident when she was four years old. She attended school until she graduated at the age of 17. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin and moved with him to New Orleans. However in 1880 when they suffered financial problems and were forced to move in with her father-in-law, where Oscar Chopin took over his father's plantation. Soon after, 1883 Oscar Chopin died, and she had to take over the plantation.