When Mollie Nettie Bowering was born on 9 January 1896, in Brownsville, Hinds, Mississippi, United States, her father, Daniel Samuel Bowering, was 41 and her mother, Alice Eugenia Willis, was 37. She married Robert Alexander Burns Sr. on 3 February 1921, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Beat 2, Hinds, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 June 1961, in Hapeville, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
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: see Bowring .
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