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Litchfield Female Academy
Beecher refused to convert just because everyone else wanted to. She hated disappointing her father, to whom she was very close to. But she found Bible study "irksome and disagreeable" and chafed against the notion of original sin. Beecher was more passionate about poetry than religion. - I can understand her frustration, not everyone is made out to just like their parents. -
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At A Party In The Spring
"Beecher met Horace Mann who had grown up on a farm in southwest of Boston. He was a law student in Litchfield, rumored to have political ambitions. Mann had heard of Beecher already. They traded thoughts that evening, but no matter, Beecher was already engaged to a far more accomplished man: Alexandria Metcalf Fisher - a math prodigy. Beecher was determined to not be a housewife." -
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The Marriage
The Marriage never occurred—Fisher was killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Ireland in the spring of 1822. Beecher never again entertained thoughts of marriage. Instead, she turned her energies to what would become her life's main passion, the education of women. Sometimes things happen for a reason - Beecher set out out to make an example for use women. That we to can make a difference. -
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Hartford Female Seminary
"Beecher opened the Hartford Female Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. At her school, she combined a solid core of courses in algebra, chemistry, history, Latin, philosophy, and rhetoric with an emphasis on developing the moral and religious character of her students. The institution was very successful, and as its principal, Beecher became a popular and respected figure in Hartfield." -
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"Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education"
In her 1829 essay, "Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education", "To facilitate this kind of instruction in her school, Beecher unsuccessfully sought to hire an associate principal to manage the teaching of religion. Failing to secure an assistant, Beecher suffered from a nervous breakdown and left the school in the hands of her sister Harriet for several months while she recovered. Upon her return, she took on the task of religious and moral instruction herself -
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1830's
1830's- "Beecher became more interested in the roles her female students would take on in society. While she believed that running a home and raising a family was an important and influential contribution by women, she also felt that women should be given more responsibility and respect outside the home. - This allows us as teachers today to have an impact." We have a say so - I know their were others that acknowledged women, but she said somethings that make you realize and think. -
Frederick Douglas
The most influential African American of the nineteenth century, Douglass made a career of agitating the American conscience. He spoke and wrote on behalf of a variety of reform causes: women's rights, temperance, peace, land reform, free public education, and the abolition of capital punishment. But he devoted the bulk of his time, immense talent, and boundless energy to ending slavery and gaining equal rights for African Americans. -
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Women's Education Association
With the success of her book, Beecher was able to found the Women's Education Association in New York in 1852. -
Susan B. Anthony
After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman suffrage.
This lady inspires me to always stand for what we believe. Even in education today, we as teachers have a right to have a say so because we are the ones teaching. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
Anthony became an agent to this society arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. She encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her. She was hung in effigy, and in Syracuse her image was dragged through the streets. If it was not for people like Anthony we would be struggling with the same situations. -
Charlotte Forten
Finances forced Forten to take a teaching position at Epes Grammar School in Salem. She was the first African American teacher hired to teach white students in a Salem public school.She was well received as a teacher but returned to Philadelphia after two years due to tuberculosis. I could not imagine going to a school that does not have my race. It takes a lot of courage. Even though she was accepted, mentally this would be tough for me. -
Fort Wagner
Forten struck up a deep friendship with Robert Gould Shaw, the Commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Sea Islands Campaign. She was present when the 54th stormed Fort Wagner on the night of July 18, 1863. Shaw was killed in the battle, and Forten volunteered as a nurse to the surviving members of the 54th. We should all have this bravery even within the classroom with students. The bravery to want to teach each and every race. -
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Catharine Beecher
She died in Elmira, New York, on May 12, 1878. - Through her experience of schools she helped to found, books, essays, and just her appearance has helped us women in society. She determined the direction for women. -
Du Bois
To Earn his state teaching credential, he enrolled in the Lebanon Teachers' Institution, which instructed whites in the daytime and blacks in the evening. I have dated a guy different race than me - speaking about these times makes me realize how lucky I am now. -
Booker Washington
Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -
The Founding of the Chicago Teachers Federation
The plan, supported by small contributions from member teachers, was criticized on a number of grounds, including actuarial. To defend the pension plan, answer its critics, and preserve the benefits, a mass meeting of Chicago public school teachers was called for March 6, 1897. In response to the interest in united action to seek redress of teachers’ grievances manifested at this meeting, a permanent organization, chartered as the Chicago Teachers’ Federation (CTF), was formed. -
National Negro Business League
Washington was a key proponent of African-American businesses and one of the founders of the National Negro Business League. During a difficult period of transition, he did much to improve the working relationship between the races. His work greatly helped blacks to achieve higher education, financial power and understanding of the U.S. legal system. He knew what it took to become something - I want to take it upon myself to be a part of something great. -
Tenure
Tenure was created to help job security, and Eliot believed that teachers should have stronger job security. I agree with him, but at the same time we need to adjust who receives this. Tenure is something that should be tough to receive. In my personal opinion, only teachers that have proven themselves should get this benefit. The benefits of tenure is making it difficult for a school system to fire a teacher. I agree with him, but at the same time we need to adjust who receives this. -
Education
Southern states spent three times more on the education of a white child than on the education of a black child. It was not unusual for black students to walk five miles to reach the nearest black school, or for black teachers to receive only one-third the pay of white teachers. I am leader not a follower - I cannot believe what situations occurred back then. I would have probably not lived long in those days. How can someone sit back and not teach a child because of their color. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
A case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. This was a life changing event for people who was not even alive at this time. American history was made.
