www.nytimes.com. Retrieved March 14, 2013, from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/us/25parks.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1>& In this newspaper article, the author writes about Rosa Parks’ incredible achievements during her lifetime and her death in 2005. Shipp uses direct quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. about Rosa Parks close friend Elaine Steele. The article is a current source and is reliable because the author used direct quotes from ahistorical figure, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well as a close friend of Rosa Parks. This source is popular but not necessarily scholarly.
Early life and education Ivins was born in Monterey, California, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her father Jim Ivins, known as "General Jim" because of his rigid authoritarianism (or sometimes "Admiral Jim" for his love of sailing), was an oil and gas executive, and the family lived in Houston's affluent River Oaks neighborhood. [1] Ivins graduated from St. John's School in 1962. In high school, she was active in extracurricular activities, including the yearbook staff. She had her first pieces of journalism published in The Review, the official student newspaper of St. John's School, though she never wrote any of the political columns that would become her specialty later in life.
Hard Not Life China, the pit bull, has gone into labor, but she looks nothing like Esch’s mother looked when she was giving birth to Esch's youngest sibling, Junior. Mama had given birth to all four children right there in the house. Esch was only eight at the time so she was of no help to her mother, but Mama had told everyone that she did not need any help. Daddy said that Esch and her two older brothers, Randall and Skeetah, had been easy births, but Junior’s birth was hard. He came into the world purple and blue, and Mama did not want to go to the hospital.
She lets us know that her father is in the Navy and has moved them from Puerto Rico, to Paterson, New Jersey into a tiny apartment referred to as El Building. During this time frame she gives us details of that the first few years were all in shades of gray. This signifies to me a hardship for her family. Her father gave strict orders for them not to socialize with anyone and only to keep to themselves. The only time her mother felt comfortable and spoke to people living in El Building was at the La Bodega.
In 1842, the Scotts moved with the Emerson’s to St. Louis. After about a year, Dr. Emerson had died and his wife hired out the entire Scott family. In 1846 Dred Scott and his wife filed a law suit against Mrs. Emerson for their freedom. For almost nine years Dread Scott had lived in free territories, but made no attempt to end his servitude. It is not known for sure why he chose this particular time for the suit, although historians have considered three possibilities: He may have been dissatisfied with being hired out; Mrs. Emerson might have been planning on selling him; or he might have been offered to buy his own freedom and been refused.
She has attempted two outpatient treatment programs, the first of which was voluntary and the second referred by Child Protective Services. She did not complete the program that was referred to her and as a result, she is under strict guidelines upon seeing her children. Janet has also been admitted into one court-ordered inpatient program for ninety days, of which she also did not complete. The end result was that her probation was terminated with the following out of her sentence of six months in Pinerras County Jail. Janet had since been released and had re-offended after a period of only a few months.
56 CHAPTERS The Chase ANNIE DILLARD =» Pittsburgh native Annie Dillard has had a distinguished career. A prolific author of books, essays, literary criticism, and reflections on writing, she won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for her personal narrative, A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard is an adjunct professor at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and a contributing editor for Harper's. The following selection is from her 1987 au-tobiography, An American Childhood. Preview.
In 1960 the students of Duke University was having a sit- in and Mulholland joined them. Mulholland then dropped out of school and went to Washington and bean to work and participated in the local movement by NAG. She believed that whites should help with the movement. Mulholland applied to black schools and was accepted to Tougaloo southern Christian College. Mulholland was participating in a Freedom Ride where she was arrested, she chose to stay in jail until school started to pay off her fines.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Lee Parks (nee McCauley; born 1913) refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. She was arrested and fined but her action led to a successful boycott of the Montgomery buses by African American riders. Born Rosa McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, the young girl did not seem destined for fame. 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.
In a series of trials the youths were found guilty and sentenced to death or to prison terms of 75 to 99 years. But before implementing the judgment the U.S. Supreme Court reversed such convictions twice on procedural drawbacks/grounds (that the youths' right to counsel had been infringed and that no blacks had served on the grand or trial jury). At the second trial one of the women recanted her previous testimony. The Alabama trial judge set aside the guilty verdict as contrary to the weight of the evidence and ordered a new trial. In 1937 charges against five were dropped and the state agreed to consider parole for the others.