Clarence Seward Darrow was born on April 18, 1857 to Ammirus and Emily Darrow in Kinsman Ohio. He was one of eight children (Hannon 1-2). Darrow was named after William Henry Seward, an abolitionist (Kersten 13). According to Kersten, Darrow’s mother was “practical and efficient” and neither parent was affectionate; Darrow could not recall his mother ever kissing him or caressing him (9-10). His mother, Emily died when he was 15 years old (Farrell 27).
Ammirus taught Darrow to question rules and authority and he imparted in him the value of human life, regardless of behavior or color of the person (Farrell 25). Although both parents had a large impact in influencing him, Darrow believed it was his mother who influenced him the greatest (Kersten 9). Regardless of who influenced him more, his father instilled many of the values that shaped the man whom Darrow became and he never parted from those values. Whereas Darrow did not receive affection from his parents, he was intensely sensitive, compassionate and empathetic for the living; humans and animals alike. Darrow “refused to eat fowl ever again” after his mother butchered and cooked one of the chickens that he preferred and had named, and later he stopped eating lamb and veal (Farrell 26). Recess and lunch were his favorite part of the school day and he loved to play and watch the game of baseball as a boy as well as an adult (Kersten 15).
Darrow grew up to be a commanding, intimidating man, being over six feet tall with a baritone voice. He was an “untidy” man, wearing crumpled and tattered clothes, slack pants, suspenders and he had a lock of hair that persistently fell over his forehead (Farrell 6-7). He married Jessie Ohl in 1880 and they had one child, Paul (Farrell 30-32...
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First of all, the early life of Frederick Douglass was horrible and very difficult. He was born on February 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland. 7 His parents were from two different races. His father was white while his mother was a African American. At that time period slave auctions were held to sell black slaves to white land owners. It was at a slave auction that as a child Frederick Douglass was separated from his Negro mother. His mother was sold and Douglass never saw an inch of her again in his entire life.
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born on February of 1818 in Tuckahoe, Maryland to Harriet Bailey. Even though his single mother raised him, his biological father is believed to be one of his mother’s previous owners. In his family, he has five siblings: Eliza, Perry, Arianna, Kitty and Sarah, Frederick Bailey was raised under the belief that all people were created equality and should be treated the same (The Literature Network). Although he was a slave for most of his childhood, he was luckily benefitted with a thoughtful owner that taught him how to read and write at the age...
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On April 23, 1791, a great man was born; fifteenth president of the United States, James Buchanan.He was born near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. His father, James Buchanan, and his mother Elizabeth Speer Buchanan, raised their son a Presbyterian. He grew up in a well to do home, being the eldest of eleven other siblings. His parents cared for them all in their mansion in Pennsylvania. They sent him to Dickinson College.
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Booker Taliaferro Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1856, in Franklin County, Va. His mother, Jane Burroughs, was a plantation cook. His father was an unknown white man. As a child, Booker swept yards and brought water to slaves working in the fields. Freed after the American Civil War, he went with his mother to Malden, W. Va., to join Washington Ferguson, whom she had married during the war.
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Lawrence Douglas Wilder was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 17, 1931. He was named after abolitionist Fredrick Douglas and poet Paul Lawrence. He was from a large family, being the second youngest of 8 children, with one brother and six sisters. His father, Robert was a salesman and supervisor of agents for a black-owned insurance company. His mother Beulah (may also be Eunice depending on the source), worked as a maid. His grandparents, James and Agnes Wilder were slaves making him the grandson of slaves. His family lived in a poor and segregated neighborhood. Mr. Wilder said he remembered his childhood as “gentle poverty.” (Source 2)
Like many blacks around this time, he was born into slavery. He was born on a small farm in the Virginia back country. His master was James Burroughs. Mr. Burroughs had a wife named Elizabeth and 13 children. Booker's mother's name was Jane and she had two other children besides Booker.
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.
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