When James Selwyn Yancy was born on 17 November 1863, in Piatt, Illinois, United States, his father, James Yancy, was 35 and his mother, Anna Eliza Hart, was 30. He lived in Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 23 August 1881, at the age of 17, and was buried in Barry Cemetery, Township of Barry, Pike, Illinois, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
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.
Variant of Yancey .
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