Batson, Ruth (3 August 1921–28 October 2003), educator, community organizer, and civil right activist, was born Ruth Marion Watson in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, to Jamaican immigrants Joel Watson and Cassandra Buchanan. Growing up, she experienced and observed racial discrimination all around Boston. Her propensity to challenge these injustices came from her early exposure to activism. She and her brother were raised mostly by her mother, a health-care worker and a staunch follower of Jamaican political activist and Black nationalist ...
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Batson, Ruth (3 August 1921–28 October 2003), educator, community organizer, and civil right activist
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Giffel, Terry Clyde (4 September 1945–6 July 2009)
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Terry Giffel, July 2000, by Gary Braman
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Giffel, Terry Clyde (4 Sept. 1945–6 July 2009), professor of instructional technology
Julian Thomas Costa
Giffel, Terry Clyde (4 Sept. 1945–6 July 2009), professor of instructional technology, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, the youngest son of Harold Giffel, a cabinetmaker, and Ruth Barnes Giffel. At a young age Giffel developed an interest in technology by helping his father build furniture, which influenced him to study a technological field. He also developed an interest in photography. After graduating from Gerstmeyer High School in ...
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Tolman, Edward Chace (1886-1959), experimental psychologist and learning theorist
Nancy K. Innis
Tolman, Edward Chace (14 April 1886–19 November 1959), experimental psychologist and learning theorist, was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Chace and James Pike Tolman, a successful manufacturer and trustee of MIT. His elder brother, Richard Tolman, became a world-renowned physical chemist. Edward Tolman attended MIT from 1906 to 1911 and graduated with an S.B. in electrochemistry. After taking summer courses in philosophy and psychology at Harvard in 1911, he decided on a career in psychology and entered the graduate program at Harvard. He received an A.M. in 1912 and a Ph.D. in 1915, under ...
