Poor Educational Opportunities, Self-Taught
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Baker, Josephine
- Ballinger, John
- Basavis (under Devadasi)
- Blackburn, Tom (see Deacon, Joseph John)
- Bogams (under Devadasi)
- Catherine I
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Deacon, Joseph John
- Devadasi
- Douglass, Frederick
- Genet, Jean
- Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
- Jogatis (under Devadasi)
- Jones, Frederick McKinley
Devadasi
Devadasi (mainly of Maharashtra and Karnataka states) and related practices ( Maharis in Kerala, Natis in Assam, Muralis in Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basa... [more]
Douglass, Frederick
Douglass was born in Maryland to a slave woman and named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey; his father was white - quite possibly his mother's owner (a common practice). As a young child... [more]
Genet, Jean
Genet's early life seems shrouded in confusion. The three sources looked at present three different stories: One gives his birthdate as 19 December, that he was abandoned by his parents... [more]
Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
Jackson's parents were poor. His father and sister died of typhoid fever in 1826. His mother remarried in 1830 but her husband disliked her children and little Thomas was sent to live with ... [more]
Jogatis (under Devadasi)
Devadasi (mainly of Maharashtra and Karnataka states) and related practices ( Maharis in Kerala, Natis in Assam, Muralis in Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basa... [more]
Jones, Frederick McKinley
McKinley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and orphaned as a young child. He was then raised by a priest in Kentucky until he was 16. He worked as a pinsetter in a bowling alley and then became... [more]
Muralis (under Devadasi)
Devadasi (mainly of Maharashtra and Karnataka states) and related practices ( Maharis in Kerala, Natis in Assam, Muralis in Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basa... [more]
Natis (under Devadasi)
Devadasi (mainly of Maharashtra and Karnataka states) and related practices ( Maharis in Kerala, Natis in Assam, Muralis in Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basa... [more]
Perrott, Caroline
Perrott was a girl of eight when she was kidnapped by Maori near Leppertown in the Taranaki district of New Zealand in 1874, probably in retaliation when her father disturbed a sacred buria... [more]
Pryse, Robert John
Pryse's mother died when he was four and his father when he was 11. He and his four brothers and sisters were raised in dire poverty and he had a total of four days of formal education in h... [more]
