When Hannah Branson was born on 27 October 1869, in Maries, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Garred Branson Jr., was 46 and her mother, Elvira Matilda Cox, was 37. She married Henry Peter Schwartz on 8 January 1890, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Phelps, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Rolla Township, Phelps, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 12 May 1956, in Rolla, Phelps, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rolla, Phelps, 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: habitational name from any of several places: Branston in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and Staffordshire, Brandeston in Suffolk, Brandiston in Norfolk, or Braunston in Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. All are named with the Old English personal name Brant + tūn ‘settlement’.
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