Peace & Justice Activists Posters “Ta...-Te...-”
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Ida Minerva Tarbell
Susie King Taylor

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Mary Church Terrell

Ida Minerva Tarbell
b. 11-5-1857; Erie Co., Pennsylvania
d. 1-6-1944; Bridgeport, CT

Ida Tarbell, known as one of the leading “muckrakers”, or investigative journalist, of her day, is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. She also wrote magazine series and biographies, and was a school teacher.

Ida Tarbell quotes ~
• “Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.”
• “Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless ... efficiency of organization.”
• “Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
• “How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

Susie King Taylor
b. 1848; Georgia
d. 1912

Susie King Taylor, who learned to read and write in secret, was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. She was also the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her Civil War experiences, Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
b. 8-6-1809; England
d. 10-6-1892

Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, about an ill fated cavalry charge in Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. As Poet Laureate of England Tennyson praised the courage of the British soldier while exposing the horrors of war ...

...
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
...

• “Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.”

• Tennyson: Poems

Mary Church Terrell
b. 9-23-1863; Memphis, TN
d. 7-24-1954

A champion of human rights Mary Church Terrell was friends with Frederick Douglass, gave her support to Susan B. Anthony and was instrumental in the international women's movement. In 1919 Terrell received international recognition at the International Peace Congress in Zurich and at the age of ninety marched, with her cane, in picket lines when Brown v. Board of Education declared segregation unconstitutional.