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Isabel González (May 2, 1882 – June 11, 1971) [1] was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship.As a young unwed pregnant woman, González had her plans to find and marry the father of her unborn child derailed by the United States Treasury Department when she was excluded as an alien "likely to become a public charge" upon her ...
Bestselling author Isabel Allende spoke about the current "anti-immigrant" sentiment, book bans, women's rights, Latin America and what is left for her to write, in a wide-ranging interview with ...
Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, D.C. in 1961 to parents who left Virginia during the Great Migration. Her father, Alexander Wilkerson, was one of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. [2] Wilkerson studied journalism at Howard University, becoming editor-in-chief of the college newspaper The Hilltop.
Isabel T. Kelly ethnographic archive, circa 1926-1980, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. Isabel Truesdell Kelly (1906–1982) was an American anthropologist known for her work with the members of the Coast Miwok tribe, members of the Chemehuevi people in the 1920s and 1930s, and her work later in life as an archaeologist working ...
Paula is a 1994 memoir by Isabel Allende.She intended to write a straightforward narrative about the darkest experience of her own life. But the book is a tribute to her deceased daughter Paula Frías Allende, who fell into a porphyria-induced coma in 1991 and never recovered.
Isabel Burton (née Arundell; 20 March 1831 – 22 March 1896), later known as Lady Burton, was an English writer, explorer and adventurer. She was the wife and partner of the explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890).
Isabel Alice Hartley Crawford (May 26, 1865 – November 18, 1961) was a Baptist missionary who worked with the Kiowa people in the Oklahoma Territory. Crawford, who had lost most of her hearing due to an illness, communicated with the Kiowa using Plains Indian sign language. She lived among the Kiowa for about eleven years, sharing their lives ...
Her black and white photos are a study of people through pieces of the human body or pictures of toreros, dancers or Warriors. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She uses a handmade and meticulous process called platinotype , a technique that early 19th century photographers used, which has great quality and a unique texture. [ 2 ]