Brief Life History of Robert Shelton
When Robert Shelton Black was born on 15 November 1895, in Hilda, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, his father, Thomas Walter Black, was 24 and his mother, Gatsie Eunice Hutto, was 21. He married Clara Emily Hill on 19 September 1917, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Beaufort, France in 1961. He died on 21 May 1989, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery, Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, United States.
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- Robert S Black, "United States Census, 1920"
- Robert Shelton Black, "South Carolina, Delayed Birth Certificates, 1766-1900"
- Robert Shelton Black, "Find A Grave Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1900
Paris, France hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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