When Harry Jacobs Lane was born on 16 August 1895, in Stockport, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, his father, Wilson Colfax Lane, was 28 and his mother, Anna Marie Jacobs, was 23. He married Inez Marna Benn on 20 September 1916, in Van Buren, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Cedar Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 3 December 1945, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 50.
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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.
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.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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