After high school Bessie went on to study at the Colored Agricultural and Normal University, which is now Langston University, in Langston, Oklahoma. Because she could not afford it, Bessie only attended college for one semester. Furthering her education, Bessie went on to attend a beauty school in Chicago, where she was living at the time. Upon finishing beauty school she got a job as a manicurist in local barbershop. Bessie first got interested in aviation after reading about in the newspaper and seeing a newsreel about flight.
He attended Harvard College where he studied biology, boxed, and developed an interest in naval affairs. His first wife was Alice who died two days after giving birth in February 1884 and his mother died on the same day in the same house. He was born on October 27, 1858, in a four-story brownstone at 28 East 20th Street. He has an older sister named Anna and a younger brother named Elliott and a younger sister named Corinne. He was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents.
Author: Laurie Halse Anderson was born on October 23, 1961 in Postsdam, New York. She was born Laurie Beth Halse. As a child, and even now, she loved to read, and write, but struggled with math, which is highly reflected in Melinda, the main character in her National Book Award Finalist book. She was a well behaved child, and at the age of 16, she had left her parents house and wound up living on a pig farm. The pig farm was located in Denmark, where she stayed for 13 months as a foreign exchange student.
Rosa Parks Although she was known as Rosa Parks, she was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child she lived with her grandparents and developed strong roots by going to church with them. During Rosa's childhood she was influenced by the Jim Crow Laws. Rosa was home-schooled until the age of eleven, and then she attended a segregated public school which was known as the Industrial School For Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. Earning her high school degree in 1933, she then went on to get a secondary education.
Rosa McCauler (aka Rosa Parks) was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. The young girl did not seem destined for fame. She was small, even for a child, and she suffered poor health. She had chronic tonsillitis. Her mother was a teacher and her father, a carpenter.
When she was still young she moved with her mother and brother to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her grandparents. A hard-working family, they were able to provide her with the necessities of life but few luxuries while attempting to shield her from the harsh realities of racial segregation. Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, graduated
We’re parked at the pick-up point, which is in the parking lot of a Methodist church. The bus is half empty. You might be in your dad’s car by now, your bags and things piled high in the trunk. The girls in the back of the bus are shrieking and laughing and taking their sweet time disembarking as I swing my legs out into the aisle to get up off the bus, just as one of them reaches my row. It used to be our row, on our way off.
Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher. At the age of two she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. She enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. Later she attended Booker T. Washington High School but was forced to leave to take care of her sick mother (Kenneth Hare). In 1932 she married
Although Steinbeck gave up on writing for a few years, he eventually returned to begin a new start on his career. His novels were about economic problems and laborers in the 1900’s. Steinbeck grew up in Salinas, California and was born on February 2nd, 1902 and died December 12th, 1968. His mother was a school teacher who had encouraged his love for writing. John lived in a farm-like environment with many small ranches with his two sisters, Esther and Elizabeth (cited 6).
Hurston lived in Florida and Angelou lived in Arkansas. Neither Hurston nor Angelou live with both parents. Hurston’s mom died when she was thirteen and she had to hop from one relative to the next during that time. Angelou’s parents got a divorce when she was three and moved her and her older brother Bailey who was four at the time to Arkansas to live with their grandmother (Momma) and uncle (Willie). Being African-American, you