Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly was a famous American journalist known for her pioneering reporting, including her 1887 expose on the conditions of asylum patients and her record breaking trip around the world in seventy-two days in 1889.
Nellie Bly was born May 5, 1864, in Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania. Nellie Bly’s birth name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran, the name Nellie Bly was her pen name. Nellie Bly’s parents were Michael Cochran and Mary Jane Cochran. Mary Jane was Michael’s second wife, He had
To support her single mother, Nellie Bly enrolled at the Indiana Normal School, a small college in Indiana, Pennsylvania.In the early 1880s, at the age of eighteen, Nellie wrote a response to an editorial piece published by The Pittsburgh Dispatch. The
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
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
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.”
Bessie Elizabeth Coleman was born January 28,1892 in Atlanta, Texas. Her mother wanted to move back to Texas by that time Bessie was only 2 years old. Waxahachie, a town of fewer than 4,000 people. She was the tenth out of thirteen children in her household with her two parents Susan and George Coleman. Susan and George were married for 17 years with up’s and down. George was mixed with African American and part Cherokee.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
Today, not many Americans will recognize the name Nellie Bly when heard, but things were much different 100 years ago. It would have been very difficult to find any American that had not heard of the famous Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly burst on the scene at the turn of the century when journalism was considered only a man's world. Nellie Bly helped to launch a new kind of investigative journalism into the world.
Her father died when she was just six years old, throwing her family into a large amount of debt (Nellie Bly). Thinking it would help her family, she attended the Indiana Normal School when she was 15 (Nellie Bly). According to PBS, Bly impersonated “a mad person, and came back from Blackwell’s Island ten days later with stories of cruel beatings, ice cold baths, and meals that included rancid butter.” This means that Bly went undercover, jeopardizing her life to help others.
Doris Day grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born on April 3, 1924 (Kehoe 120). Her real name is Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff. She was told Kapplehoff was too long for a good music appeal, so she changed her last name to Day after a song that was popular at the time called “Day after Day” (“About Doris;” Kehoe 120). Her mother named her after a silent music actress, Doris Kenyon, because she admired her so much (“About Doris”).
Dorothy Height was born on March 24, 1912, in Richmond, Virginia. She grew up with a mother (Fannie Burroughs Height), a father (James Edward Height), and a sister (Anthanette Aldridge). Her father was a building contractor while her mother was a nurse both working to support the family. When Dorothy was 5 years old she moved to Rankin, Pennsylvania.
Susan B. Anthony is known worldwide, for her involvement as an abolitionist, education reformer, labor activist, suffragist, and the fights for the rights of women across the country. She was known at the beginning of the 1820 and withheld a long, eventful, meaningful life. She was known most importantly through the Gilded Age which was a time period where it withheld many political scandals, and displays of extravagant wealth. As a leading activist, a head of the support for the right of women to vote, and her legacy changed history for the entire nation of women since then as she stood for what she believed was right.
Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania during the height of the Industrial Age (Griswold 8). Her mother, Maria Carson, was an avid bird-watcher and
Bold and Beautiful Bernice Burgos is an American entrepreneur, model, reality TV star and media personality by her profession. She has done music videos for J. Cole and Rick Ross and was also featured on MTV’s Wild ‘N Out. In addition, she owns her own clothing line which she named Bold & Beautiful.
• Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She was born into a poor sharecropper family, and the last of eight children.
She was independent, educated, and held a position that had been traditionally been reserved to young men. Susan was sent to a boarding school in Philadelphia. She taught at a female academy boarding school, in up state New York when she was fifteen years old intill she was thirty. After she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. It was here that she began her first public crusade on behalf of temperance.