There was a man called Valentine who was a priest in Rome. He was celebrated for how he brought people together. He helped couples get married. Emperor Claudius II of Rome thought unmarried men are better soldiers. He was killed on Feb 14 270 A.D. for not following the king’s rules. On that very day, Valentine wrote a love letter to the jailer’s daughter, for who he loved. Pope Gelasius, who was catholic, honored him by making a holiday in his name, St.
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Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860. Her mother died when she was very little so Jane felt unwanted and hopeless. Jane went to college, and this is special because most women didn’t go to college. In London she saw people living in poverty aching for food and shelter, then she found out about Toynbee Hall. There she got an idea!!!! She went to Chicago and bought a house for immigrants.
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In the old times, not everything was equal. The Constitution only allowed white men to vote. In 1789, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, immigrants, and women weren’t allowed to vote.
People still fought for the right to vote for hundreds of years. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of them. He stood beside protesters for the rights of all humans being able to vote.
The U.S. Constitution allowed every state to decide who could vote.
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