Mabel Murphy

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Visiting Professor of Sociology-Anthropology at Yamaguchi National University, Yamaguchi City, Japan She consulted for Encyclopaedia Britannica, was scholar-in-residence for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and was an executive in the Phelps Stokes Fund. In 1953, Smythe-Haith joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund as deputy director. [3] She worked alongside Thurgood Marshall and helped him prepare the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case.

May 13 Pusha T [Terrence LeVarr Thornton], American rapper and record executive (Daytona), born in New York City May 3 Tyronn Lue, American basketball coach (NBA Championship 2016 Cleveland), born in Mexico, MissouriThis is a harrowing story of innocence, shame, hostility and vicious cruelty from the very people who should be caring for those in need, but it is tempered with love, hope and the potential to change one's situation given the right opportunities. May 29 Marco Cassetti, Italian soccer defender (Italy 5 caps, Roma, Watford), born in Brescia, Italy

It's 1920s London and the world is in a deep economic depression. Times are very hard and the city is rife with unemployment, poverty and disease. One family in East London Smythe-Haith married her first husband, Hugh H. Smythe, in 1939, after they met in Atlanta. The two had a daughter, Karen Pamela Smythe. Hugh Smythe died in 1978. In 1985, Smythe-Haith married retired hospital director, Robert Haith Jr., who died three years later. [8]

Although fictional, this was a true story for many women of that time and is based on several older women whom the author met and supported whilst an NHS nurse in the large hospital system. Assistant Director, Department of Special Research, New York City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Research Assistant and Instructor in the Department of Social Sciences (Sociology) University, Nashville, Tennessee. Mabel was an Irish immigrant who escaped from the terrible potato famine by boarding an unknown ship destined for America. After many hardships at sea, the ship sank in heavy fog three miles from the coast. Mabel was one of the few who survived but had lost all her belongings and her sense of direction. Determined to live, she swam for two months until she reached the shore, wrinkled and waterlogged, on the Minnesota side of Lake Superior. May 7 Elton Flatley, Australian rugby union fly-half (38 caps; 187 points; Queensland Reds 114 games, 609 points), born in Tamworth, NSW May 6 Shannon Shakespeare, Canadian 100m swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Mission, British Columbia Anderson, Mark (2008-10-01). "The Complicated Career of Hugh Smythe … Anthropologist and Ambassador: The Early Years, 1940–50". Transforming Anthropology. 16 (2): 128–146. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00021.x. ISSN 1548-7466.Dr. Smythe-Haith was a teacher and a writer, working at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., Tennessee State College in Nashville and Brooklyn College in New York. She also served as principal of the elite New Lincoln School in New York. Her first husband was appointed ambassador to Syria, then Malta, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Dr. Smythe-Haith, who also had served in a variety of appointed government positions for international and cultural affairs, was appointed by President Johnson as the U.S. representative to UNESCO. May 14 Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educational philosopher (University of Chicago), dies at 78