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Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.
Late in life, Jemison told her story to the minister James E. Seaver, who published it as Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824; latest edition published 1967). It is considered a classic captivity narrative. Although some early readers thought that Seaver must have imposed his own beliefs, since the late 20th century, many history ...
School Library Journal, in a review of The Moon Over Star, wrote "Pinkney's remarkable graphite, ink, and watercolor paintings evoke both the vastness of space and the intimacy of 1960s family life. Writing in the voice of a nine-year-old African-American girl, Aston is lyrical and sometimes evocative, though some of her narrative choices are ...
Gender history: the family in the perspective of gender. Immigration: the study of the family and nationalities. Legal history: the study of the law of the family. Modern history: the study of the modern family. Migration: the study of the family pattern of global movement. People's history: the family from the perspective of common people.
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A 1740 map of Paris. Ortelius World Map, 1570. Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time. [1] In its modern form, it is a synthesizing discipline which shares both topical and methodological similarities with history, anthropology, ecology, geology, environmental studies, literary studies, and other fields.
within Mozambique. According to the Bureau for Refugee Programs’ World Refugee Report to the United States Congress in 1987, more than one million Mozambicans are internally displaced. The author was engaged by the Bureau for Refugee Programs to shed additional light on such issues as the causes of these refugee flows; the
Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut in space; she carried a picture of Bessie Coleman with her on her first mission; Military history of African Americans; Azellia White, the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license in Texas