When Melvina Conger was born in June 1868, in Missouri, United States, her father, James Conger, was 48 and her mother, Elisabeth Lowe, was 41. She married James Edward Lemon on 26 March 1890, in Madison, Dane, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in United States in 1949 and Cuming City Township, Washington, Nebraska, United States in 1950. She died on 24 May 1960, in Blair, Washington, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Blair Cemetery, Blair, Washington, Nebraska, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
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.
English: unexplained.
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