Parks “was then elected the first secretary of the state conference” (Theoharis 27). This later allowed her to travel up to a two week workshop at the Highlander Folk School and help her refresh and see how the rest of the world treats African Americans. From returning from the workshop Mrs. Parks would perform the act that made her famous today. It has been told in a verity of ways by different authors but I think Jeanne Theoharis explains it very well.
BIOGRAPHY Matthew Barney was born in 1967 in California, and with 6 years old moved with his family to the state of Idaho. When he was 12 years old, his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York, where he had often visited her, and where he was exposed to contemporary art. He worked as a model after high school, and left Boise to attend Yale University, in Connecticut. Initially he signed up for a premed course wanting to be a plastic surgeon, but after two semesters he switched to art department. Due his dedication and originality, he could study in School of Art while still undergraduate.
President: William McKinley Political Party: Republican Years as President: 4 Years Defeated Party: Benjamin Harrison Political Background: When the Civil War ended, McKinley returned to Ohio to begin his career in law and politics. He studied law at Albany Law School and, after passing the bar exam in 1867, began his legal practice in Canton, Ohio. At a Canton picnic in 1869—the year he entered politics—McKinley met and began courting his future wife, Ida Saxton, marrying her two years later. He was twenty-seven and she was twenty-three at the time. Although practicing law was his profession, being involved with the Republican organization secured his future.
They currently reside in New York City, NY with their 2 year old daughter, Emma Wang-Tate. Kristina is currently attending Pharmacy School, and previously earned her Bachelors of Science in Registered Nursing. Robert received his Associates of Arts in Criminal Justice and plans to begin his Bachelors in the near future. Though Kristina is a full time student, she manages to work part time at a local bar. Robert works two jobs to support his family; one as a dispatcher for the Sheriff’s office and the other as a Fire Fighter.
He formed many good friendships at Lincoln; two of the most important were his relationships with the president of Clark University G. Stanley Hall, and his relationship with James P. Porter who was the Dean of Clark University and a professor of psychology. During the spring of 1915, Sumner was notified by Porter that he had been accepted to Clark's undergraduate program for the fall semester. While attending Clark, Sumner continued reading many different books and he hoped to become a writer. In June 1916, Sumner received his second Bachelor's Degree in English. According
Jeffrey and Colette MacDonald grow up in Patchogue, NY, were they had know each other since grade school. The MacDonald’s dated as teenagers while attending Princeton University; he marries Colette, in the fall of 1963. After Jeffrey graduates from Princeton University he attends Northwestern University for Medicine, graduating in 1968. Their first daughter Kimberley is born in 1664. In 1967 the MacDonald’s have their second daughter Kristen.
His mother worked as a cook and as washerwomen for many years to support the family and to save enough to move her family to Chicago. There he attended an all black high school. After graduating, Johnson worked for Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company. After some time he was in charge of finding news about Blacks and group them with news of Supreme Life employee activities for an in-house publication. Johnson, while doing this task came up with the idea of collecting articles and publishing a monthly magazine, called the Negro Digest.
-Firoozeh Dumas, born in Abadan, Iran, came to the United States with her family in 1972 when she was seven years old. It was to be a temporary move. Her father, an engineer for the National Iranian Oil Co., had been given a two-year assignment in the U.S., presumably because he had attended graduate school in America and thus, was assumed to speak fluent English and have a degree of familiarity with American culture. They settled in Whittier, California.The father had spoken about America "with the eloquence and wonder normally reserved for a first love." Thus, the family had high expectations of this country full of "clean bathrooms and very, very kind people.
He gained employment at another law firm near his hometown. The law firm he gained employment at was Kroop and Bewley. After a year of hard work, many cases some won and some lost, and only a year of practice they made him a partner in the law firm. It was now called the Law Firm of Kroop, Bewley and Nixon (Nixon). After this he met his soon to be wife.
He said his name was Dan and that he was the General Manager of the store. I asked him about my application status and he looked it up and gave me an interview later that week! When I came back, I had on jeans and a T-shirt, but he didn’t mind. We sat in the lobby and talked for a half an hour and he offered me the job! I was so excited because it was my first real job, and I had a friend from school that worked there also, her name’s Jessiee.