Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself. She went to high school in Illinois but she missed class often. She didn’t graduate but she found out she was very good at chemistry. Near the 1900s she developed a new hair product that straightened African American’s hair without the damage like other hair products. Annie eventually
One famous quote from Barbara Jordan is “If you’re going to play a game properly, you’d better know every rule .” Barbara Jordan was an amazing woman. She was the first African American Texas state senator. Jordan was also a debater, a public speaker, a lawyer, and a politician. Barbara Jordan was a woman who always wanted things to be better for African Americans and for all United States citizens. “When Barbara Jordan speaks,” said Congressman William L.Clay, “people hear a voice so powerful so, awesome...that it cannot be ignored and will not be silenced.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”-Louisa May Alcott. Captured by Comanche Indians around age eight, Cynthia Ann Parker was a white girl with an Indian spirit and lots of perseverance. She not only was a survivor and a witness of the Comanche raid on Fort Parker in May of 1836 but also became the chief’s wife. Cynthia Ann Parker is a well-known, accomplished woman in Texas History.
Getting the rights for women to vote in Nova Scotia was a big deal for Edith
Sally Ride grew up in Los Angeles, California. Originally, Sally had decided to attend Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. At Swarthmore, she had planned to take physics and play tennis, but she met a professor and was later accepted at Stanford. It was at Stanford where Sally got her first job working in the registrar’s office. Then, during one summer, she got homesick and decided to head back to California and study quantum physics,
Imagine a time where there is a ''Man's job'' and a ''Women's job'', well that's how it was for Phyllis Lose, the first female equine veterinarian, in 1957. (First) Though she faced many difficulties entering this field she didn't give up and that's what allowed her to reach her goals. Phyllis Lose's work is inspirational because she changed the world of veterinary medicine, empowered girls to enter a ''man's field'' of work, and showed great strength by not giving up in order to reach her goals.
Irene Hunt is the daughter of Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt. Irene Hunt was born on May 18, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. Irene and her family soon moved to Newton, Illinois. Franklin, Irene Father died when Irene was only seven, and the family moved again to be close to Irene's grandparents. Irene's childhood was lonely. She enjoyed listening to her grandfather’s recollections of his childhood during the Civil War, later she use many of those stories in Across Five Aprils. She was educated from the University of Illinois, Urbana, from where she graduated with a BA in 1939, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from which she earned an MA in 1946. From 1930 to 1945 she taught English and French in schools in Oak Park, Illinois. From 1946
Katharine Dexter McCormick grew up in a family of wealth and power and was a graduate of MIT. Margaret Sanger was a daughter of immigrants and grew up poor. She worked as a nurse in Manhattan, New York. They were trying to help low income women who didn't know about contraceptives or afford them. Birth control contributed to less, lower income women passing due to self-induced abortions, complications from having multiple pregnancies, or just dying in childbirth.
...rt herself. She began washing miner’s clothes in Central City. She established a solid ground for herself when she met Lorenzo Bowman. He was an entrepreneur and gave her the opportunity to gather and save up $10,000 in her name. She was known for her generosity in helping African Americans move to Central City, using the money that she had saved up (Abbott, Leonard, Noel, 2013, pp. 217). Her significance was important in Central City as she helped build Central City through population.
The city of Corning, New York gained one of the most influential advocates on September 14, 1879: the daughter of Bob Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins. Little to Bob or Anne’s knowledge, Margaret Louisa Higgins, later known as Margaret Sanger, was destined to change the world of contraceptives for its present-day use: modern birth control. As the sixth child of eleven, Sanger grew up in poverty; with a socialist advocate for a father, and a recurrently pregnant mother constantly worn down from those pregnancies and later dying of tuberculosis. Although tuberculosis ultimately killed Sanger’s mother, Sanger believed that the frequent pregnancies of Anne burdened her mother and were the underlying cause of her relatively early death at the age
On November 4, 1942, a small baby girl was born in Harlem, New York. She was the child of Rupert and Gladys Bath. Rupert was the first black motorman for the New York City subway system, and Gladys Bath was a housewife and domestic worker who used her salary solely to save money for her children's education. They named their child Patricia Era Bath. Bath was highly encouraged by her family to do well in school and to advance her academic career. Her father was an occasional newspaper columnist and a former Merchant Marine who taught Bath about the wonders of travel and the value of exploring new cultures all over the world. And if it wasn't for her mother buying her a chemistry set when she was young, Bath may have never become interested in the sciences in the first place.
Elizabeth “Bessie” Coleman was born on January 26, 1892 to Susan and George Coleman who had a large family in Texas. At the time of Bessie’s birth, her parents had already been married for seventeen years and already had nine children, Bessie was the tenth, and she would later have twelve brothers and sisters. Even when she was small, Bessie had to deal with issues about race. Her father was of African American and Cherokee Indian decent, and her mother was black which made it difficult from the start for her to be accepted. Her parents were sharecroppers and her life was filled with renter farms and continuous labor. Then, when Bessie was two, her father decided to move himself and his family to Waxahacie, Texas. He thought that it would offer more opportunities for work, if he were to live in a cotton town.
To begin with, #3. Ellie Arroway : Mathematics is the only true universal language. Math is taught all over the world and the same rules are consistent across each nation of Earth. If I were to ask a student from Norway, a student from China, and a student from Argentina (all three took calculus 1)to take the derivative of cot x. The answer for each student would be the same (-csc^2 x). Another example would be a human and an extraterrestrial being finding the distance of a motor vehicle has traveled given the velocity and the time. If the velocity was ten meters per second and the time was two seconds then then the final answer for the distance is 5 meters. Both the human and the extraterrestrial being would get 5 meters as the answer. Also, most people know the answer to 2+2 but not everyone can read a sign in english. This is true because arithmetic is a universal language that everyone can use.
During the 1890's Walker suffered from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose most of her hair. To solve this problem Walker experimented with homemade remedies, including those made by Annie Malone (another black woman entrepreneur) who in 1905 Walker was a sales representative for. In 1905, Walker moved to Denver and married her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker; this is where she changed her name to Madam CJ Walker. After changing her name, she founded her own business and began selling "Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower" which was a scalp conditioning and healing formula. Walker claims that the recipe to this formula came to her in a dream.
Annie Oakley was born on August 13, 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her original name was Phoebe Ann Moses, but her family called her Annie. Annie Oakley was short in stature, coming in at around five feet tall. She had wavy brown hair that fell past her shoulders and she wore costumes that she sewed herself. To maintain her ladylike attitude, Annie always wore a skirt and never wore pants.
Clara Barton was born during 1821 in Massachusetts. As a young child, Barton learned a great deal of schooling from her older siblings; she learned a wide variety of different subjects. She seized every educational opportunity that she was given and she worked hard to receive a well rounded-education. Clara Barton would later use her education to create her own school and eventually help start an organization that is still used today. As a young child, Clara was extremely shy; nevertheless, after many years she was able to overcome this. Even as a young child Clara thrived helping others. She tended to her sick brother who was severely injured by a roofing accident on a regular basis. The skills she learned from helping her brother proved to be used again when she was on the front-line of the Civil War helping wounded soldiers.