Instead of withdrawing from the public stage, Angelina and Sarah went on to achieve more notoriety, in 1838, Angelina testified at a Committee of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, becoming the first American woman to testify in a legislative meeting. Later in 1838, at the age of 33, Angelina married abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, and they moved with Sarah to Fort Lee, New Jersey. Although both Angelina and Sarah wanted to continue giving speeches and attending meetings, the pressures of running a household, raising three children, poverty and health issues (Angelina had suffered a terrible breakdown after her third child), caused them retreat from public issues. They still continue to write and support the antislavery and women’s …show more content…
In 1854, Theodore Weld started the Eagleswood School where both the Grimké sisters taught and were administrators. The school went on, until it failed two years after its conception. In 1863, the family moved back to Boston to continue teaching. In 1868, Angelina and Sarah discovered that their brother, Henry had fathered children with his personal slave, Nancy Weston. He had three children, Archibald, John and Francis James Grimké, who he acknowledge as all of his children. When the sisters had found out about these men, they took them in and made arrangements for them to live in their home in Hyde Park. Archibald had went on to graduate from Harvard Law School and became the first black editor of the Hub which was a popular post-Civil War magazine for black leaders. Francis James Grimké graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and became a well-known minister. In order to raise money to get the boys’ through college Sarah wrote a novel, on an interracial couple which was never published because the subject matter was seen as too racy for the time. Sarah went on to circulate a petition for woman’s suffrage. (Nies,
Very little is known about Bertha Alice Graham Gifford. We know she was born Bertha Alice Williams to William and Matilda Williams, as one of ten children, in October 1872. Bertha was born in Grubville, Missouri, and later married Henry Graham in December 1894, in Hillsboro, Missouri. After Graham’s death, Bertha married Gene Gifford, a man who was ten years younger than her, in 1907, and they moved to Catawissa, Missouri. What is know about Bertha Gifford is the horrible acts she committed while living in Catawissa.
Miami Dade College is the nations largest institution of higher education. Two million people have attended the college since its doors first opened in 1960. Today Miami Dade College has expanded all across south Florida with 8 main campuses and 23 outreach centers. Miami Dade College is the most diverse institution with a student body representing 185 nations and speaking 94 languages. It also has an average of 165,000 students enrolled.
Angelina Grimke was invited to speak against slavery in New York and that was the point in her life where she was interested in becoming an abolitionist. Sarah was there to support Angelina through everything. In 1837 Angelina and Sarah went to New York for training sessions.
Despite the disapproval they faced from fellow Quakers and from a society that did not accept women as public speakers on such controversial topics as slavery, the Grimke sisters found themselves caught up in the antislavery movement.” Even though there was outrage from the letter Gilder Lehman states, “Despite the letter, New England crowds flocked to hear the Grimke’s throughout August, September, and October, and the sisters kept up a grueling pace, sometimes speaking at six meetings a
After many boring years with Louis and her two daughters, she obtained a divorce and married King Henry II of England. The fifteen years following her marriage with Henry were the most exciting years of her life. She had eight other children, among them were Richard and John Lackland. She was independent and was capable of ruling by herself. She
Kidnapped at a young age, she was sold as a slave to the Wheatley family. Unlike most slaves, she was taught how to read and write. She was immersed in history, literature, astronomy, the bible, and more. Although she was not excused from her duties, life as a slave can be aristocratic in comparison to most slaves. This knowledge causes her works to be dismissed,
Cypress College is a community college located in North Orange County and it ranks third among California community colleges. What makes Cypress College outstanding is that it has a variety of student programs and services which can help students overcome hard situations. There are programs that provide learning and financial assistances such Disability Program, Supplemental Instruction Program, and Extended Opportunity Program & Service (EOPS). However, Library and Learning Resource Center (LLRC) is one of on-campus’s services that deal with learning difficulties. Therefore, LLRC can be useful for students to succeed their educational goals.
Jane Addams life as a child was not easy, she had a congenital spinal defect which led to her never being physically strong and her father who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War always showed that his thoughts of women were that they were weak, and especially her with her condition. But besides that she lived a very privileged life since her father had many famous friends like the president Abraham Lincoln. Jane was determined to get a good education which she ended up getting. She went to Rockford sanitary for women which is now called Rockford University and she also studied to be a doctor but had to quit because she was hospitalised too many times. Being sick affected her life very much so when she got older she remedied her spinal defect with surgery.
After her schooling Amy married James Archer in 1897 and just a few months later had her daughter, Mary J. Archer in December 1897. Amy and James got their first caretaking jobs in 1901. They took care of John Seymour in Newington, Connecticut. Seymour was an elderly widower and he died in 1904. After
Cole attended the prestigious Institute for Colored Youth, a rigorous school with the curriculum of Latin, mathematics, and Greek, where she excelled. She graduated in 1863 and even received a ten-dollar sum for her academic excellence and punctuality. Later, Cole attended Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, the world’s first female medical school, and graduated in 1867 which made her
For Andover students, the year does not begin in the brisk winter of January, but in the warm days of late summer in early September since those days mark the beginning of the school year. Andover students, especially those who live on campus, their year revolves around their school schedule rather than the calendar year. A student’s year has four fundamental parts: fall term, winter term, spring term, and summer vacation. Even though living one’s life through four structured sections for the next four years may seem like a daunting and lackluster task, Andover students know that each of those parts are a foundation for their year. The start of school, or the beginning fall term, is an indicator of a new beginning for both new and returning students each year.
She had written many letters to her family during the war; she later used these letters to write her book Hospital Sketches––a true story based on her letters about her time as a nurse. Louisa knew that she wanted to pursue writing as a career after Hospital Sketches was published in 1863. In 1868, Louisa wrote a book based on the coming of age stories of her and her sisters and titled it Little Women (“Louisa May Alcott.” Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House). She wrote this book because family needs were dire, but it was so widely popular that Louisa was given financial security and independence and a lifetime writing career (“Louisa May Alcott.”
In 1860, Jane was born into a family of mostly boys. With her mother dying when she was 2, her father pushed her to get a good education. Jane, being determined to please her dad, she graduated the top of her class at Rockford University in 1881 (“ Laura Jane Addams”). In college, she found her passion for helping others and entered Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia. Sadly, she became ill and had to leave the school to recover.
Out of all the children she was the one most like John. Jane and the other children would be cared for by Polly Beer, Sarah’s governess. The oldest of the children, Mary, would take over as a mother figure in Jane’s life. Years later, John would go on to marry another woman, Anna, also a widower. Anna was sophisticated and well read.
She had two brothers named Frederic Rhinelander and Henry Edward Jones they went by Freddie and Harry. They both went to boarding school so they spent a lot of time away from home which left Edith to be raised like a single child. (Edith Wharton) When she would start writing she called it “making-up” even though her parents didn’t support her writing they had a change of heart when someone suggested her work be published in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine. (Edith Wharton)