Search Giant Google Features Jamaican Woman on Homepage
Google Pays Tribute to Mary Seacole
On October 14, the Internet search giant – Google paid tribute to the Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole by featuring her in a Google doodle on its homepage.
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepage that is intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people.
Mary Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Her father was a Scottish soldier and her mother, a free black Jamaican woman who was skilled in traditional medicine.
Seacole acquired knowledge of herbal medicine in the Caribbean. When the Crimean War broke out, she applied to the War Office to assist but was refused.
She travelled independently and set up her hotel and assisted battlefield wounded.
She became extremely popular among service personnel, who raised money for her when she faced destitution after the war.
After her death, she was forgotten for almost a century, but today is celebrated as a woman who successfully combated racial prejudice.
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