Category: snapshot biography

Private Denis Smith went out to the front lines for the British during WWI. Only a handful of people knew that Denis Smith was Dorothy Lawrence, a woman, not ye...

Ella Fitzgerald was shy, and she loved to dance. But most of all, she loved to sing. “The only thing better than singing is more singing,” she would...

Anne Frank loved to write. She dreamt of being a journalist one day. But when she was thirteen years old, her family went into hiding to avoid deportation to a ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe had a gift for words and the courage to use them. With vigor, she would voice what she believed right at seeing wrongs in society.  B...

In a time of glamorous stars, Ingrid Bergman was simple. Described as naturally shy, sweet, considerate, conscientious, a hard worker, she would become the bigg...

“Judge thou has left me not a dollar, but I wish to say to thee and to all in this courtroom that if anyone knows a fugitive who wants a shelter and a fri...

People said Nat Love was one who never got discouraged. Regardless of what was happening, he kept a positive attitude. Born enslaved in 1854 in Tennessee, Nat w...

She was a baseball star. At bat, a good hitter. On the basepaths, a fast and fearless runner. Born in 1922 in Los Angeles, CA, Thelma “Tiby” Eisen b...

On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Doris Miller was working as a mess attendant on the battleship West Virginia in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. He was a Navy vetera...

“My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.” Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee, in 1940, th...