Harriet Tubman timeline. Back to The African American History of Western New York 1819 Birth.
Araminta Ross [Harriet Tubman] was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. Given the names of her two parents, both held in slavery, she was of purely African ancestry. She was raised under harsh conditions, andsubjected to whippings even as a small child. She slept as close to the fire as possible on cold nights and sometimes stuck her toes into the smoldering ashes to avoid frostbite. At age six, Araminta was old enough to be considered able to work. As was the custom on all plantations, when she turned eleven, she started wearing a bright cotton bandana around her head indicating she was no longer a child. 1844 Marriage. 1849 Escape.
It is said that Henry "Box" Brown, a slave, had himself nailed in a wooden box and mailed by real train from Richmond to William Still in Philadelphia.] 1850 Conductor: In September of the same year, Harriet was made an official "conductor" of the UGRR.
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Help for Haiti Working in Haiti since 1995, HELP FOR HAITI INC. Haitian Support Alliance. Martin Luther King Jr. Biography. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. Facts Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia.
King, a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States, beginning in the mid-1950s. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. Early Years Born as Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Michael King Sr. stepped in as pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church upon the death of his father-in-law in 1931. Sandra Lovelace - Native Activist. Sandra Lovelace 1947- Sandra Lovelace, a Maliseet woman from the Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick, belongs to the second wave of feminism of Canada.
Thanks to her successful appeal to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, Native women in Canada no longer lose their status under the Indian Act through marriage to a non-Native man. Sandra Lovelace was born on the Tobique Reserve in New Brunswick in 1947. In 1970 she married American Airman Bernie Lovelace and moved with him to California. When her marriage ended a few years later, Lovelace and her children returned to the Tobique Reserve and found they were denied housing, education and health care provided to those with status under Canada's Indian Act. The Indian Act, which still provides the legal framework for the relationship between First Nations people and the Canadian government, was first passed in 1869.
Lovelace also took her case to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations. Nelson Mandela Foundation. On the shelves: ‘I Am Malala’: Her first-hand story. The world was shocked by an ambush on a school bus on the fateful day on Oct. 9, 2012 by the Taliban in Swat Valley, Pakistan — a place where an armed conflict between the Pakistan army and the Taliban has been raging since 2007.
The ambush targeted a 15-year-old girl, Malala Yousafzai, but other bullets also hit two girls sitting next to her on the bus. Luckily, they survived. Who is Malala? Why did the Taliban attack her? Malala tells her story in the book, I Am Malala, which she wrote with British journalist Christina Lamb. Born in 1997 in the Swat Valley area, Malala grew up in a family from the Pashtun tribe that came from a territory located in what is now Afghanistan. After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, then-Pakistani president Gen. A number of Muslims from all over the world also supported the mujahideen by pouring money into their cause and becoming volunteer fighters.