Born on 9th December 1914 to Dona Aurora Rodriguez, Hildegart was a girl that was always going to be an achiever. Her mother was not married to her father, they met only once. Rather, as a believer in eugenics, Dona chose her partner carefully in order to ensure that...
Birth Date: August 6, 1886 Death Date: November 25, 1916 Location: Lewis, New York Monument Type: Historic/Residence In 1886, Inez entered the world as the firstborn child of John Milholland and Jean Torry Milholland. Two more children, Vida and John, joined the...
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1906, Josephine Baker grew up in a diverse, low-income neighborhood. At eight years old, she began working to help support her family and by twelve years of age she dropped out of school to work full-time....
Birth Date: 2007 Location: Irvine, California USA Monument Type: Event It is an unfortunate reality that not only within America but across the world, homelessness and housing insecurity remain incredibly large problems. Unsurprisingly, tackling it proves to be an...
In 2014, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever Nobel Prize Winner for her activism fighting for the educational rights of all children. The story of how Malala came to be one of the best-known activists in the world is nothing short of remarkable. Born in Mingora,...
