Williams was born in Lynwood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, on June 17, 1980, the fourth of five daughters born to Richard and Oracene (nicknamed Brandi) Williams. Sister Serena, the last of the five Williams sisters, was born in September 1981. Her father ran a private security firm in Compton and was a dedicated fan of tennis, who became hooked on the game by watching televised coverage of professional tournaments, told his wife that he wanted to make tennis stars out of his daughters. He had little luck with his older girls—Isha, Lyndrea, and Yetunde—none of whom showed any particular aptitude for the game. His efforts proved far more successful with Venus and Serena, both of whom turned out to be naturals on the court. The girls
Would you believe that the mastermind of three murders could be out of jail in just eight years? Do you think it is fair that the other person involved with the murders was sentenced to life in jail and will only be eligible for parole after serving 25 years? Would it change your mind after knowing that the mastermind is just an 12-year-old? Jasmine Richardson was the 13 year old behind this terrible murder. Most wouldn’t believe someone that young could come up and go through with something that terrible.
Lydia life more in these too places. She was born into slavery. She was the slave of George Wythe. George Wythe was the first American Law Professor. Lydia was freed from slavery.
Mary Bryant was given birth in 1765 Fowey, Cornwall England. Towards the age of 19 Marry had been appearing for work when she found herself a task as a highway woman. At the age of 21 (1786), Mary was then founded guilty of assaulting a single woman and stealing a silk Bonnet off her. Because of this crime Mary was then sentenced to death. Soon after her sentenced changed too, 7 years transportation.
A Chauvin woman who was stabbed to death at a Grand Isle beach Sunday was a generous woman who loved photography and gardening, and did everything she could for her three kids despite being an amputee, her sister-in-law said. Jennifer Dozier was at the beach near Cypress Lane around 10:30 p.m. Sunday when a fight broke out between her and her boyfriend of nearly two years, Randy Paul Marcel, of Pine Street in Chauvin, police said. The fight, which witnesses say started over drugs or cigarettes, culminated in Dozier, 34, being stabbed the multiple times in the neck and torso, said Glen Boyd, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office public information officer. Marcel left Dozier's 2-year-old son, Gabriel, with his mother's body and left the scene, police said.
Betty Maria TallChief was a professional ballerina dancer who was osage. Osage is a Native American Tribe in the U.S .Osage is also prefers to Orange or Osage Orange. Betty Maria faced prejudice things and encounters about being Native American but little do people know she will become a big star. To not only the locals in her town but in the whole world. She will become the Osage Firebird.
An athlete is strong, active, and very good at sports. Mildred Ella Didrickson is the perfect example of an athlete. Born on June twenty-ninth, nineteen-eleven in Port Arthur, Texas who would have known that she would become on of the best women athletes of the twentieth century As a kid, Mildred played baseball, and got the name “Babe” because people thought she hit as well as Babe Ruth.
Born in 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams was the grandchild of former slaves who left home at an early age and ended up enlisted in the Marines. He returned home in 1955, founding and becoming President of Monroe’s chapter of the NAACP where he recruited the working class along with the unemployed to create an unprecedented chapter. “We ended up with a chapter that was unique in the whole NAACP because of working class composition and a leadership that was not middle class. Most important, we had a strong representation of returned veterans who were very militant and didn’t scare easy.” (In Memory of Robert F. Williams)
Although Wayne Williams was convicted for killing 2 adults, the Atlanta Child Murders began in July of 1979 after the bodies of 2 children were found hidden under the bushes of at the side of an Atlanta road. (Biography.com Editors, 2015). For the next 22 months the city and FBI would find 29 victims suspected of being murdered by Wayne Williams a free-lance photographer and hopeful music producer with a criminal record of impersonating the police. (unknown, 2014). 14-year-old Edward Smith was found shot by a .22 caliber weapon and 13-year-old Alfred Evan was found murdered by asphyxiation these deaths sparked the beginnings of a string of child murders that would rock Atlanta to its core.
Mary Jemison was one of many white captives who lived a full and happy life with her indian captors. The day Mary Jemison was taken by the indians started out like any other day. A friend of her father’s needed to borrow a horse in order to carry a bag of grain to the Jemison’s house. The friend had also taken a gun with him in case he saw any game fit for killing. The Jemison’s heard gunshots coming from nearby outside and quickly became alarmed.
Many know about the sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln is known for the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, and being the president who guided the United states threw the Civil War. But one point of Lincoln's life is rarely touched on, Lincoln's family. Lincoln's wife was Mary Ann Todd.
Overall, Betty Jo has a positive outlook on life. She likes to live in the moment and treat each day as if it were her last, as cliché as that sounds. Betty Jo’s father passed away when she was nineteen years old and she says that that really affected her point of view on life. Her father was a physically healthy forty-one-year-old at the time of his death and he died of a heart attack while refereeing the local high school’s boys’ basketball game one evening. This event seemed to have a deep impact on Betty Jo’s life.
Paulette Williams was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1948. She was the eldest of four children born to Paul T. Williams and Eloise Williams. Her father, Paul Williams, was an Air Force surgeon and her mother was a psychiatric social worker and educator. She lived in a racially diverse neighborhood which included well educated upper middle class black and white families. As a child, she attended poetry readings with her younger sister, another playwright, Ifa Bayeza, which nurtured her curiosity and interest.
Mary Edwards Walker accomplished a variety of amusing and intelligent things during her lifetime. She first enrolled in the Syracuse College of Medicine. Although her father was the one encouraging these medical desires, Mary thrived in this specific school system. In the year of 1855 Mary graduated with a Doctorate degree in medicine. Her enthusiasm continued, along with the development of the rest of her life.
Ted Williams had this love for hitting and baseball, but hitting was an art, a form of science that he just could not ignore in his sixty years of playing baseball. Williams took hitting so seriously that, even in the beginning of his career he would practice his swings in-between pitches. Williams had a bit of a cocky personality,and he believed that he should not only be recognized as a baseball player, but he wanted to be seen as “The Greatest Hitter of All Time.” Ted Williams was one of the greatest baseball hitters of all time, who was committed to perfecting his baseball skill and making sure he could serve our country. Ted Williams was known as the greatest hitter of all time, he also had a sour attitude.
Although some people might argue that Shirley Chisholm does not demonstrate leadership qualities, a closer examination proves that the former congresswoman was a strong leader because of her independence, perseverance,and willingness to take risks. Shirley Chisholm is a great leader because she blazed a trail by being the first African American Congresswoman. For example, “Chisholm indulged her maverick nature in a spectacular gesture. She became the first black woman to run for president” (Morin pg1).This proves that she was the first black individual in her field to run for president so this makes her a trailblazer because all leaders should possess this for the reason that no leader can lead from behind.