Category: snapshot biography

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...

“Little can be done under the spirit of fear,” Florence Nightingale would say.  More than just words, though, she lived this mantra.  Born...

Harriet Tubman was around twelve years old, enslaved, when a fellow enslaved man attempted to run away. After being found and brought back, Harriet and a few ot...

“I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every mus...

Albert Einstein struggled to find a job coming out of college. Though his grades were average, he had been a disobedient student, telling jokes and cutting clas...