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May 10, 2024 · Mamie Till-Mobley (born November 23, 1921, near Webb, Mississippi, U.S.—died January 6, 2003, Chicago, Illinois) was an American educator and activist who helped galvanize the emerging civil rights movement after her son, Emmett Till, was murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white grocery store clerk in Mississippi.
May 26, 2024 · Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
5 days ago · May 29, 2024. ‘Young Woman and the Sea’ centers on Trudy Ederle, a young woman who goes against all odds in an attempt to set a record of being the first woman to swim across the English Channel. The daughter of a butcher in Manhattan, Trudy is interested in swimming from an early age.
4 days ago · The St. Gertrude Prayer for the souls in purgatory is a traditional prayer for the faithful departed. Saint Gertrude the Great is celebrated not only for her profound spiritual writings and visions but also for her deep compassion for the souls in purgatory.
May 23, 2024 · A 70-year-old flamingo has laid her first egg with her 'boyfriend' who is 33 years her junior. The bird named Gertrude lives at Pensthorpe Nature Reserve in Fakenham, Norfolk, and has stunned staff by living nearly double her life expectancy. Flamingos tend to live for around 35 years in the wild, making her age - and egg-laying - a surprise.
May 8, 2024 · Daughter of Rev. George Aeneas Ross, M.A. and Anna Catherine Ross. Wife of Capt. Charles Biddle. Sister of John Ross; Col. George Ross, Signer of the "Declaration of Independence"; James Ross, Sr.; Gertrude Read; Susanna Thomson and 2 others.
5 days ago · Zitkala-Sa (born February 22, 1876, Yankton Sioux Agency, South Dakota, U.S.—died January 26, 1938, Washington, D.C.) was a writer and reformer who strove to expand opportunities for Native Americans and to safeguard their cultures. Gertrude Simmons was the daughter of a Yankton Sioux mother and a Euro-American father.
