When Mary Etta Street was born on 21 January 1890, in Benton, Mississippi, United States, her father, Marion Van Buren Street, was 23 and her mother, Caldonia Loucretia James, was 18. She married William Steven McKee on 27 March 1907, in Benton, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Beat 1, Benton, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Saulsbury, Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1925. She died on 19 December 1925, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in McKee Cemetery, Falkner, Benton, Mississippi, 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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: from Middle English stret(e) ‘street, Roman road’ (Old English strǣt). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in the main street of a village or town or by a Roman road, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Street (Kent, Herefordshire, Somerset), Street on the Fosse (Somerset), Strete in Blackawton (Devon), Strete Raleigh in Whimple (Devon), or Streat (Sussex). In the Middle Ages the word at first denoted a Roman road but later also came to denote the main street in a town or village.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Strasser and a number of other surnames with similar meaning.
Americanized form of Jewish (from Morocco) Chetrit: perhaps from the Arabic verbal root shṭr ‘to become skillful, dexterous, astute’. The exact origin of the suffix –it is unclear.
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