My Childhood Research Paper
What was your childhood like?
Well, I was born March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. The beginning of my childhood was a little disorganized with my family moving about a lot because of my father’s job. Though finally in 1944 my parents got divorced and I had to live with my mother instead of my father. My father’s job was one of the reasons for the divorce, but also my mother had a mental illness that drove them apart. My mother and I went to live in a run down house in Toledo, Ohio where I would learn to take care of her instead of the other way around. This made me a have to be my mother’s caregiver instead of the other way around. I finally got away from my mother and the responsibility that I held on my back for far too long when I went to college and Smith college where I studied government. At that time though it was very uncommon for a women to study government, but that did not stop me. When I did finish college though I did not pursue a career in government, but instead …show more content…
For one, I signed the “War Tax Protest” pledge in 1968 which was not about feminism, but more just an act of political activism where I vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Though one thing I did for the women’s movement was campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and also published an essay in 1969 about what it would be like if a women won the election to be president. On July 10, 1971, I was one of 300 women who founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and I also was one of the people who addressed at the first national conference of Stewardesses for Women’s Rights in 1973. Finally, I think the last important thing I did for just political activism in general was get arrested in 1984 for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid
Well, I was born March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. The beginning of my childhood was a little disorganized with my family moving about a lot because of my father’s job. Though finally in 1944 my parents got divorced and I had to live with my mother instead of my father. My father’s job was one of the reasons for the divorce, but also my mother had a mental illness that drove them apart. My mother and I went to live in a run down house in Toledo, Ohio where I would learn to take care of her instead of the other way around. This made me a have to be my mother’s caregiver instead of the other way around. I finally got away from my mother and the responsibility that I held on my back for far too long when I went to college and Smith college where I studied government. At that time though it was very uncommon for a women to study government, but that did not stop me. When I did finish college though I did not pursue a career in government, but instead …show more content…
For one, I signed the “War Tax Protest” pledge in 1968 which was not about feminism, but more just an act of political activism where I vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Though one thing I did for the women’s movement was campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and also published an essay in 1969 about what it would be like if a women won the election to be president. On July 10, 1971, I was one of 300 women who founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and I also was one of the people who addressed at the first national conference of Stewardesses for Women’s Rights in 1973. Finally, I think the last important thing I did for just political activism in general was get arrested in 1984 for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid