Clarissa "Clara" Harlow Barton was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest of five children of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. Her father was a veteran, a prosperous farmer, and a sawmill operator. Her mother was a homemaker. Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts.
Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Mo. Harry was the son of Martha Ellen (Young) Truman and John Anderson Truman. The family, which soon added another boy, Vivian, and a girl, Mary Jane moved many times during Harry’s childhood and youth. They first moved to a farm close to Grandview in1887, then, in 1890 they moved to Independence and lastly, in 1902 to Kansas City (Burnes 10). As a child, Harry enrolled in public schools in Independence and graduated in 1901 from high school.
A Life in Brief Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, spent his childhood roaming the woods and studying his books on a remote plantation in the Virginia Piedmont. Thanks to the prosperity of his father, Jefferson had an excellent education. After years in boarding school, where he excelled in classical languages, Jefferson enrolled in William and Mary College in his home state of Virginia, taking classes in science, mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, and literature. He also studied law, and by the time he was admitted to the Virginia bar in April 1767, many considered him to have one of the nation's best legal minds. Shaping America's Political Philosophy Jefferson was shy in person, but his pen proved to be a mighty weapon.
HOWARD COSELL By: Schwanka Tanks December 14, 2011 Howard Cosell was born on March 25, 1918, as Howard William Cohen in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was born to Isadore and Nellie Cohen. His father was a Polish immigrant and his grandfather was a Rabbi. He attended schools in the public school system in Brooklyn, New York. Howard Cosell was in the United States Army from 1941-1945.
Richmond Barthé Introduction Richmond Barthé was born on January 28, 1901, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He was only one month old when his father, Richmond Barthé, died. His mother, Clementine Raboteau, was influential in nurturing his early artistic talent. When young Richmond was just an infant, he reportedly was intrigued with the Old English letters on the front page of the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper. His mother supplied him with paper and pencils to practice copying the letters (Bardolph, 1961).
For white Southerners, keeping blacks away from the ballot box was crucial. Blacks were a large percent of the population and especially in the deep South, a black voting block could change the power structure. The vote was the key to official power and the perquisites of power. A Voter Education Project was begun in 1962 and met serious and even violent resistance. A black who tried to register in Mississippi was shot at by a white.
My Grandfather, a die hard Democratic, believes that Bill Clinton was the best president we have ever had, but he thought maybe Mr. Clinton came out a little arrogant. Again, I was curious as to what he could be talking about. So I read an article in the New York Times, Campaign Collapse, When Destiny Failed, Peter Baker and Jim Rutenberg describe a situation where President Clinton was found yelling at campaign personnel. In this situation Senator Clinton had just lost the primary in North Carolina and they were waiting for results of the Indiana Primary, when a vote counting delay threatened her opportunity to give a primetime victory speech. President Clinton was yelling
African Americans were also hit hard by voting. As a result of this, Lyndon B. Johnson responded by signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned literacy tests and sent several voting registers into southern states. Since Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the African Americans, women felt left out and demanded their own civil rights act. The lack of civil rights and the Equal Employment of Operations Commission caused Betty Friedman to create the National Organization for Women (NOW). The acts that Johnson signed pushed the Civil Rights Movement forward and created new organizations such as the Black Panther Party and the National Organization for Women.
George Washington enjoyed less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon, for he died of a throat infection December 14, 1799. Now, in America, George Washington still have a big impact on America today, he became a president to a new country that was not very stabilized. His ideas on not being part of a political party helped our country avoid feud. His belief and devotion towards republicanism made him a great leader and made America into a strong independent nation. Washington also helped create the first bank, which he singed the bill for once it was passed through Congress.
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 in Richmond, Virginia. His mother, a plantation heiress died of a stroke when Tyler was seven. After, the death of his mother he was raised by his father John Tyler Sr. John Tyler Sr. was a judge and taught young John a strict way of viewing the constitution. John Tyler studied at William and Mary College and while there he was under the influence of Bishop James Madison. BJM was the president of William and Mary College.