When Viola Rhoades was born on 23 July 1893, in Roseland, Adams, Nebraska, United States, her father, David Winfield Rhoades, was 37 and her mother, Louisa Magdalena Nissen, was 20. She married Lloyd Charles Strickler on 23 October 1911, in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Esmond Township, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Manchester, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States in 1950. She died on 26 September 1978, at the age of 85, and was buried in De Smet, Kingsbury, South Dakota, United States.
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A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
English (Lincolnshire): variant of Rhodes .
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