When Catherine Bridwell was born on 23 January 1891, in Indian Township, Payne, Oklahoma, United States, her father, John Hubert Bridwell, was 45 and her mother, Fidelia Tichenor, was 45. She died on 8 March 1985, in Clairemont, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 94.
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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.
Oklahoma is the 46th state.
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 (Wiltshire): habitational name from Bridwell in Uffculme (Devon) or Bridewell in Westbury (Wiltshire), both of which are probably named after a well or spring dedicated to Saint Bride, or a stream frequented by birds (Old English bridd + wella ‘well, spring, stream’). Compare Bridewell .
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