When L A Bunetta Wilks was born in 1869, in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, Minor James Wilks, was 47 and her mother, Martha J Wilburn, was 32.
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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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and West Midlands): variant of Wilkes 1.
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