When Lee Melvin Merrell was born on 14 March 1868, in Lewis, Missouri, United States, his father, William Simpson Merrell, was 23 and his mother, Frances Ann Tait, was 20. He married Henrietta Georgia Baxter on 9 March 1892, in La Belle, Lewis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Reddish Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States for about 50 years and La Belle Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 May 1955, in La Belle, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lewistown Cemetery, Lewistown, Lewis, Missouri, 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: variant of Merrill .
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