She also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.

She had taught classes in botany, astronomy ( with the aid of a telescope ), geometry, and psychology.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

She taught her husband arithmetic up to basic algebra and tutored him to improve his literacy, reading, and writing skills.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

She was also taught domestic skills, such as needlepoint, lace-making, embroidery, music and dancing.

She once described him as a teacher " that could have taught the stones to draw correctly.

She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science.

She taught herself German out of books and practised piano.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

She then taught for three years at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

" She believed that children were born persons and should be respected as such ; they should also be taught the Way of the Will and the Way of Reason.

She taught first at Eunice Kenyon's Friends ' Seminary, and then at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846, where she rose to become headmistress of the Female Department.

She was also taught archery, falconry, horseback riding, and hunting.

She performed her own stunts and was taught martial arts by Bruce Lee.

She was the daughter of prosperous surgeon Dr. Prosper Malapert, who owned a private practice in Poitiers and taught anatomy at the University of Poitiers ' School of Medicine.

She found herself continuing her education in Germany, being taught by Archbishop Bruno of Trier.

She then taught kindergarten for four years.

She was the eldest of four children and was taught to always share with the less fortunate, despite her family ’ s meagre earnings.

She educated all her sons and in particular taught her human sons the art of war, helping them to fashion and use weapons.

" She has taught at the University of British Columbia ( 1965 ), Sir George Williams University in Montreal ( 1967 – 68 ), the University of Alberta ( 1969 – 70 ), York University in Toronto ( 1971 – 72 ), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ( 1985 ), where she was visiting M. F. A.

She was from Mississippi and had graduated from Fisk University, a historically black college.

She is buried at the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in Walls, DeSoto County, Mississippi.

She was born in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Robert and Ruby ( Bullington ) Streeter.

She attended school in Greenwood, Mississippi, and began teaching herself to play the guitar, bass, banjo, and vibes.

Summer and Smoke is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, from the " turn of the century through 1916 ," and centers on a high-strung, unmarried minister's daughter, Alma Winemiller, and the spiritual / sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and the wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door, John Buchanan, Jr. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the gothic cathedral, " reaching up to something beyond attainment "; her name, as Williams makes clear during the play, means " soul " in Spanish ; whereas Buchanan, doctor and sensualist, defies her with the soulless anatomy chart.

She was born as Lillian Hardin in Memphis, Tennessee, where she grew up in a household with her grandmother, Priscilla Martin, a former slave from near Oxford, Mississippi.

She has appeared in over 120 roles, on television, and in miniseries and feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( 1974 ), Wild at Heart ( 1990 ), Rambling Rose ( 1991 ), Touched by an Angel ( 1997 ) ( TV ), Ghosts of Mississippi, Primary Colors, 28 Days ( 2000 ), and American Cowslip ( 2008 ).

She was at an NAACP rally with Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the weekend before Evers was assassinated.

She attended The Brooke Hill School for Girls and then went on to the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of the Delta Rho chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, but during her sophomore year at the University of Mississippi, she moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

She graduated from high school in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and earned a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Mississippi.

She taught high school in Mississippi and moved to New Hampshire in 1973, where she taught school and owned a small business.

She was born Lucille Anderson in Amory, Mississippi, United States, and raised in Birmingham, Alabama.

She sold it in 1902 to the Mississippi Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, with the stipulation that it be used as a Confederate veterans home and later as a memorial to her husband.

She is one of the primary advocates of the Delta Regional Authority, which is designed to spur development in the lower Mississippi Delta region.

She also worked for the State Arts Commissions of South Carolina and Mississippi setting up photography programs in rural schools.

She died two years later, on August 14, 1852, at Pascagoula, Mississippi.

She crossed the Mississippi River which had frozen over in February 1839.

She appealed the case of Willie McGee, a black man convicted in 1945 of raping a white woman in Laurel, Mississippi and sentenced to death by an all-white jury who deliberated for only two-and-a-half minutes.

She campaigned in 12 states and won the Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey primaries earning 152 delegates.

She is influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin toured the Mississippi Delta studying blues and playing with blues musicians.

She was also only the fifth women's basketball player in NCAA history to have 3, 000 points ( a list including Jackie Stiles of Southwest Missouri State, Patricia Hoskins of Mississippi Valley State, Lorri Bauman of Drake, Cheryl Miller of USC, and Cindy Blodgett of Maine ).

She is also one of five women's collegiate basketball players to ever accumulate over 2, 000 points, 1, 000 rebounds, 300 assists and 300 steals ( a list that includes teammate Tamika Catchings, Cheryl Miller of USC, Sophia Young of Baylor, and Armintie Price of Mississippi.

She volunteered in Biloxi, Mississippi in 2005, as part of the clean-up effort following Hurricane Katrina.