When Opal Newton was born on 22 October 1895, in Alabama, United States, her father, William Henry Newton, was 29 and her mother, Helen Louise Burdeshaw, was 24. She married Thomas C Smith in 1912, in Kinsey, Houston, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Montezuma, Covington, Alabama, United States in 1950 and Andalusia, Covington, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 23 September 1984, at the age of 88, and was buried in Andalusia, Covington, Alabama, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1903: Houston, Alabama, United States
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England and Scotland so named, from Old English nīwe ‘new’ + tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’, or Middle English neue ‘new’ + toun ‘settlement, town’. According to Ekwall, this is the commonest English placename. For this reason, the surname has a highly fragmented origin.
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