I never knew much about Governor Lurleen but what I have read first and foremost she was a devoted mother and wife. She may not have been born to be governor but it was in her nature to help anyone who needed it and what better platform than first lady then an unforgettably successful leader of the people of Alabama. There are few people that find their true calling in life; Governor Wallace found hers as a mother, supportive wife, and leader. This led to her winning the “Most Admired Woman” in the 1960 Gallup Poll.
Lurleen B. Wallace was born the daughter of Mr. Henry M. Burns and Mrs. Henry M. Burns in an area outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama on September 19, 1926. Like most southern born girls she was raised with southern morals and devout religious values. Lurleen was a very intelligent graduating from high school at age fifteen. Lurleen aspired to be a nurse but was too young to enter nursing school so she graduated from the Tuscaloosa Business College instead. Lurleen did not grow up in a wealthy home but instead was taught strong family values and a strong belief in God. Upon completion of high school she went to work part time selling costume jewelry in the S.H. Kress Five and Dime Store in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This is where George and Lurleen met and their courtship began. From the moment that they met she knew that politics was in their future and she was ready to take on the responsibility. George and Lurleen were married on May Lurleen supported her husband in every endeavor from traveling to multiple bases during George’s military career to accompanying him on the campaign trail. They had four children Bobbi Jo, Peggy Sue, George Jr., and Janie Lee all while moving from base to base during George’s enlistment. The base h...
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...Governor Lurleen made the most impact on the educational system. She started junior colleges in Alabama starting in 1967 and having one of those named after her, Lurleen B. Wallace Community College. LBWCC now has campuses in Andalusia, Opp, Greenville, and Luverne with the 2003 merger of LBWCC and MacArthur Stat Technical College.
Governor Lurleen was taken too soon. She succumbed to cancer May 7, 1968, a day that will forever be remembered by every person old enough to have knowledge of her legacy. The programs and policies instituted by the “Ma and Pa” administration have forever changed the lives of Alabamians. Her legacy will live on through the individual lives of every person she has touched through her endless generosity and kindness. I did not know much at all about Governor Wallace but have since developed a great deal of respect for her.
... articles for St. Nicholas Magazine and Appleton's Journal. She also wrote opinion pieces. In an 1882 essay in the National Journal of Education, she addressed the limited and poorly paid employment opportunities for women despite the shortage of male workers brought on by the Civil War. She advocated for federal and state financing of trade schools modeled on French ecoles professionelles, which taught women various skills and handicrafts in addition to a general literary and cultural education. Tutwiler also wrote poems.(Encyclopedia). In 1931, the state adopted her poem "Alabama," which she composed while in Germany, as lyrics to the state song. These words written by Tutwiler were part of what later became the Alabama state song. She gave the "little--hand, brain, spirit" and left behind her numerous evidences of her work to build a better state. (hall of fame).
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Grace Abbott was born November 17, 1878 in Grand Island, Nebraska. Grace was one of four children of Othman A. and Elizabeth Abbott. There’s was a home environment that stressed religious independence, education, and general equality. Grace grew up observing her father, a Civil War veteran in court arguing as a lawyer. Her father would later become the first Lt. Governor of Nebraska. Elizabeth, her mother, taught her of the social injustices brought on the Native Americans of the Great Plains. In addition, Grace was taught about the women’s suffrage movement, which her mother was an early leader of in Nebraska. During Grace’s childhood she was exposed to the likes of Pulitzer Prize author Willa Cather who lived down the street from the Abbott’s, and Susan B. Anthony the prominent civil rights leader whom introduced wom...
Sarah Breedlove “Madam C.J Walker” was born in Louisiana to former slaves on December 23, 1867. She was the first member of her family to be born “free,” and used this opportunity to have a better life. She married Moses McWilliams and gave birth to her first daughter, Lelia, on June 6, 1885. Unfortunately, soon after her daughter’s second birthday her husband was killed in an accident. She found a job as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri and thus provided her daughter with an education that she never had the chance to get.
Ida chose to return to Mississippi for the birth of her daughter “for the express purpose of having the baby in the familiar hands of a midwife”. While she was there, George relocated to Chicago seeking steady employment where he obtained a series of small jobs and was finally able to rent a one room basement apartment for his returning family. George gradually improved jobs and obtained steady employment with the Campbell Soup Company, which ended up being his lifetime occupation. Throughout this period of time, George sought improved housing and a better environment for his growing family. However, they were still obligated to live within the allotted areas for Black families which were extremely overpopulated. Ida Mae was not too proud to accept advice from migrants who were there before her and The Defender's periodic lists of “do's and don’ts” . She was above all not a complainer or a slacker, but would work alongside of her husband determined to help achieve the objectives they courageously set out to accomplish, more opportunities, freedom to practice all aspects of life granted in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and protection from the Jim Crow laws for all of their
III. After reading this journey of a man who was born in North Carolina, raised in Tennessee, and became a statesman for both Mississippi and Alabama, I honestly believe I have learned a lot about a great and knowledgeable man. Before reading this book, I had no wisdom of this man nor his accomplishments. I had no previously knowledge of George Strother Gaines
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.
This is set up to compare to the lives of George and Lennie and all
The main points of the speech were as follows: his childhood in West Virginia, how he got
Politics and rhetoric of George Wallace influenced later conservative leaders such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Bill Clinton and George Bush. All in which modified his political toolbox, knowns as the Southern Strategy, for example creating wedge issue in polarization, accommodating the public’s emotion and most importantly using technology to their advantage in communicating to the public. Though the utilization of the silent majority, new technology, and the southern strategy were effective, they were not appropriate. I will describe the powerful tactics taken from Wallace’s toolbox and how the presidents effected the use of political campaign to their discretion.
true liberal arts education. In my own experience, I have come to understand what Wallace
Back to Wallace’s sole purpose about choosing what to overlook and how to overlook it I think it gave me a sense that many of us are so blind to the world around us. He was effective enough to demonstrate what the actual quote of “think before you speak” means. His speech positively had an effect on me, it was a broad topic yet somehow he seemed to expand it in a way where I thoroughly thought about how I lived my life. Was I oblivious to the things and people around me? When I questioned myself I knew that David Wallace’s Kenyon Commencement speech was effective because it spoke to me. Yet when I thought about how Dyer had made me feel, it had just made me feel like I wanted to be angry at the world for something I really shouldn’t be angry about. I did not like the negative effect I got from Dyer’s essay because it made me question whether he had real meaningful intentions with the world around him. What pushed to compare both articles and say that one was better than the other in the end was that one had more of a logical purpose. Wallace’s thoughts seeped through every word that he had said because he made me understand that it’s not about receiving wisdom but knowing how to use
If Youngs’s thesis was to illustrate how the sufferings and achievements of E. Roosevelt’s life was what made it possible for her to become the influential woman that she was, then Youngs did a great job by incorporating so much of E. Roosevelt’s early life into the biography. But if Youngs did not intend for that to be his thesis then this book was a confusing mess that left readers wondering why he put so much of E. Roosevelt’s early life in the book but a minimal amount of her life during her husband’s long presidential terms in office.
Shortly after Cecil move, he would meet and marry Gloria and they would have two children. However, Cecil’s life became most interesting when he is hired at the white house in !957. Cecil was hired during the Eisenhower’s administration, Cecil witness Eisenhower’s reluctance to use troops to enforce school desegregation in the south. The president would however, uphold the law by racially integrating Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas.
He did not enjoy his work or have a stable relationship with his daughter. It didn’t help that he would occasionally get high and start fights with strangers. I don’t think that is a good life to be living, let alone living the examined life. If Wallace was living an examined life he would have chose to be a fatherly figure in his daughter’s life and he would also not allow himself to lash out on others. Choosing to apologize to his neighbor was the first step into living an examined life, but Wallace was not quite there yet.