By June Fink, age 10 and IndyKids Staff I was born on August 24, 1922, in New York City.When I was growing up, my family couldn’t afford books, so my parents sent a coupon and a dime to the New York Post each month and we ended up owning 20 volumes of Charles Dickens’...
By Esteban Guerra, age 9 I was born on May 26, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. I graduated from Stanford University in California, with a degree in physics. In 1978, I was one of six women to work for NASA. In 1983, I became the first American woman to fly in...
By Zaynab Latheef , age 8 I was born on April 9, 1921, in Hampton, Virginia. I graduated from Hampton Institute with a dual degree in mathematics and physical science. I became a teacher and helped kids to build their own wind tunnels to conduct experiments. In 1951,...
By Nicolle Berroa, age 13 “[He] was the most important bridge between the wonderful legacy of the civil rights movement and the message of hope and change,” said Charles J. Ogletree Jr., a Harvard Law School professor and civil rights lawyer. I was born in...
Photo by Wikimedia Commons By Mikhail Razzak, age 11 I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, AL, and died June 1, 1968, in Easton, CT. I learned how to read and write when my teacher, Anne Sullivan, poured water with a pump on my hand and spelled the word “water”...
By Jamya Montrevil, age 11 I was born on January 30, 1919, in beautiful Oakland, CA. In 1942, my family was put in incarceration camps because we were Japanese American. The U.S. didn’t like Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. President Franklin...
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