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Motivations Mary McLeod Bethune. Mary McLeod Bethune was motivated by her experiences and hardships growing up, and by her religion, Christianity. Growing up in the South, one of a very large family during the reconstruction era, Mary experienced racism and unfairness based on the color of her skin. Her family was given no advantage in the southern white culture, and very little land to live on.
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- Early Life. Labor activist Mother Jones was born Mary Harris Jones in 1830 in County Cork, Ireland. Mother Jones started out as a teacher and dressmaker and became a tireless fighter for the working class. In early years, she lived in Toronto, Canada, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois.
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- Reverend Whitehead interviewed a woman, who lived at 40 Broad Street, whose child who had contracted cholera from some other source. The child’s mother washed the baby’s diapers in water which she then dumped into a leaky cesspool just three feet from the Broad Street pump, touching off what Snow called “the most terrible outbreak of cholera which ever occurred in this kingdom.”
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Mary McLeod Bethune: Her 1949 Historic Awards Very few people realize that in 1949 Mary McLeod Bethune received two historic awards. Haitian Medal of Honor & Merit. The first one was Haiti’s highest award, the Medal of Honor and Merit from President Dumarsais Estime. She was the first woman, regardless of race, to ever receive this prestigious award.
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Shelley Fabares Michele Ann Marie Fabares was born in Santa Monica, California. She is the niece of actress Nanette Fabray. Fabares began acting at age three, and at age 10 made her television debut in an episode of Letter to Loretta. After guest-starring on various television series, Fabares landed the role of Mary Stone in the long-running family sitcom The Donna Reed Show.
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Mary Kingsley Mary Kingsley. Mary Kingsley, the daughter of George Kingsley and Mary Bailey, and the niece of Charles Kingsley, was born in Islington in 1862. Her father qualified as a doctor and worked for the Earl of Pembroke.Both men had a love of travelling and together they produced a book of their foreign journeys, South Sea Bubbles.ingsley first book about her experiences, Travels in West Africa (1897) was an immediate best-seller. In her second book, West African Studies (1899) she described the laws and customs of the people in Africa and explained how best they could be governed.
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- Mary Ann Shadd was born in Wilmington, Delaware in October of 1823. The oldest of 13 children, Mary was raised in a family dedicated to the abolition of slavery and her childhood home often served as a shelter for fugitive slaves.
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Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) Early Life in Slavery. Isabella was born around 1797 on the estate of a Dutch patroon in Ulster County, New York, where her parents were slaves. Her first language was Dutch, and she would speak with an accent all her life.
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- Students from Mount Holyoke Female Seminary carried Mary Lyon’s ideals and teaching methods into schools which they founded or taught at all over the world.
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- Mary Kingsley, the daughter of George Kingsley and Mary Bailey, and the niece of Charles Kingsley, was born in Islington in 1862.Her father qualified as a doctor and worked for the Earl of Pembroke.Both men had a love of travelling and together they produced a book of their foreign journeys, South Sea Bubbles.ingsley first book about her experiences, Travels in West Africa (1897) was an immediate best-seller. In her second book, West African Studies (1899) she described the laws and customs of the people in Africa and explained how best they could be governed.
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Audre Lorde The third and youngest daughter of Linda Gertrude Belmar and Frederic Byron Lorde, Audre Geraldine was born tongue-tied and so nearsighted that she was considered legally blind. She grew up in Harlem during the Depression, hearing her mother's stories about the West Indies. She learned to talk while she learned to read, at the age of four.
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- Janis Joplin. Janis Joplin. Joplin was the eldest of three children, Michael and Laura, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School where she began painting and listening to the blues of Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thornton and Odetta with the rebellious kids of the neighborhood.
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Who is Jane Addams? JANE ADDAMS. Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois. Her mother died when she was two, and she was raised by her father and, later, a stepmother. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, among the first students to take a course of study equivalent to that of men at other institutions.
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We Noticed You Have An Ad Blocker On. Mary Jones’ greatest achievement may have been creating the persona of Mother Jones. She was born Mary Harris in Cork, Ireland, in 1837. When she was barely 10 years old, she witnessed the horrors of the potato famine, which drove her family from their homeland to Toronto, Canada.
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- While there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor ma Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.Her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, was a lawyer who served on the state legislature from 1926 to 1938.hile there, she wrote for several student publications and spent a year as editor of the campus humor ma Harper Lee, known as Nelle, was born in the Alabama town of Monroeville, the youngest of four children of Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee.
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Mary Bell Bell's mother Betty (née McCrickett) was a prostitute, who was often absent from the family home, travelling to Glasgow to work. Mary (nicknamed May) was her first child, born when Betty was 17 years old. It is not known who Mary's biological father was.
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Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy. She was the younger of two children. Nightingale's affluent British family belonged to elite social circles. Her mother, Frances Nightingale, hailed from a family of merchants and took pride in socializing with people of prominent social standing.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune with girls from the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls in Daytona, c. 1905. After her marriage and move to Florida, Bethune became determined to start a school for girls.
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Theories of Early Childhood: Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky Theories of Early Childhood: Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky. Montessori: Maria Montessori was born in Italy in 1870. In her work at the University of Rome's psychiatric clinic, Dr. Montessori developed an interest in the treatment of children and for several years wrote and spoke on their behalf. At age twenty-eight, she became the director of a school for mentally-disabled children.
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- As a child, she followed her dermatologist grandfather on his rounds and learned medicine at his knee. Dr. Llivina's family eventually left the island and lived in Dothan, Alabama for part of her childhood.
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Mary McLeod Bethune The cabin in Mayesville, South Carolina where Mary McLeod was born. Mary Jane McLeod was born in 1875 in a small log cabin near Mayesville, South Carolina, on a rice and cotton farm in Sumter County. She was the fifteenth of seventeen children born to Sam and Patsy (McIntosh) McLeod, both former slaves. Most of her siblings had been born into slavery.
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The Life of Robert E. Lee Anne moves her children into a small house in Alexandria after Henry is no longer able to afford the Lee's mansion in Stratford. Henry Lee is severely injured while resisting a mob on his friend, newspaper editor A.C. Hanson, who had publicly opposed the War of 1812.obert and Mary have five more children: William Rooney Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Anne Annie Carter Lee, Eleanor Agnes Lee, Robert Edward Lee, Jr., and Mildred Milly Childe Lee. Lee is promoted to captain of engineers, and moves on to his greatest engineering challenge, moving the Mississippi River.
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- In alignment with Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's passion for the education of our future leaders, Bethune-Cookman University has equipped many young women and men over the years for lives dedicated to service and excellence. Today, her vision continues! Help us to sustain this profound legacy. Why Give? Ways to Give
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- Gymnast Mary Lou Retton is known for winning the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics, and it appears as if her daughter Emma Jean may follow suit. Emma is just six years old, but Mary Lou points out that she is on the Olympic-hopeful track, and she isn’t the only gymnast in the family.Mary Lou and husband Shannon Kelley ‘s older daughters also participate — Shayla Rae, 13, and McKenna Lane, 11, take gymnastics classes five days a week. can’t believe it has been 24 years since Mary Lou won the gold medal for the all-around at the 1984 Olympics and that she is 40! Time flies that’s for sure. I remember when Mary Lou got married and then had her first child, seems like yesterday.
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Sheryl Lee Lee was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, West Germany, the daughter of an artist mother and architect father. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, United States, where she was a graduate of Fairview High School (class of 1985).
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Firsts in American Women's History Louise Blanchard Bethune is the first woman to become a full member of the American Institute of Architects. American journalist Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, who used the pen name Nellie Bly, completes a trip around the world in a record 72 days, 6 hours, and 11 minutes.