When Lorena Angie Partridge was born on 2 April 1869, in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Chandler Partridge, was 26 and her mother, Mary Angeline Hall, was 26. She married Frank Howlet Cleveland on 16 July 1923, in Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died in December 1951, in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, 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: from Middle English partriche, pertriche, partrige, partrick, patrich ‘partridge’ (Old French pertriz, Anglo-Norman French partriz), either a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of the bird or a nickname for someone with some fancied resemblance to it. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 17th century. In North America, this surname has probably absorbed some cases of other European surnames with the same meaning, e.g. Italian Pernice .
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