• Idella Jones Childs (June 21, 1903 – August 8, 1998) was an American educator, historian and civil rights activist. Childs worked as a teacher for 35 years...
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  • homemade peanut brittle during the Great Depression. Her mother, Idella Jones Childs, was an elementary school teacher. Young had four siblings. She spent...
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    (published in O, The Oprah Magazine in July 2006) about her love of books as a child and her dedication to the written word: "Now, 75 years later in an abundant...
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    Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). Zelda was a spoiled child; her mother doted upon her daughter's every whim, but her father, Alabama...
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    Parenthood But Want to Put One of Its Backers on the $10 Bill". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on February 17, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2018...
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    Doran & co., inc. Teacher: Anne Sullivan Macy: a tribute by the foster-child of her mind. (1955), Doubleday (publisher) The open door (1957), Doubleday...
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    suspicious tissue that he noticed during the cesarean delivery of her last child. As was common at the time, her physician told her husband the news, not...
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    Vivian Juanita Malone Jones (July 15, 1942 – October 13, 2005) was one of the first two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama in 1963...
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    Goodman was the fourth of six children, and she began singing in church as a child. Raised inside the Church of God, her original intent was to study for the...
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  • 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated...
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