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Vallateen Virginia Dudley Abbington
Vallateen Virginia Dudley Abbington (1907 – October 13, 2003) was an African American activist, educator, and social worker. She is known for being the plaintiff in ''Abbington v. Board of Education of Louisville'', where she fought for the equalization of teacher's salaries in Louisville, Kentucky. Personal life and education Vallateen Virginia Dudley Abbington was born in rural Indiana in 1907 and was one of eight children. She attended Michigan State Normal College, where she joined the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. Once she completed college she married Jesse Matthew Abbington and the pair eventually moved to Louisville and later to St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. While in Missouri Abbington completed a Master's in social work. Abbington died on October 13, 2003, in Los Angeles, California, and is buried in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Civil rights While living in Louisville Abbington taught at Jackson Junior High School. She noted that she and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
