When Lila McClure Shackleford was born on 23 November 1890, in Gunnison, Gunnison, Colorado, United States, her father, Sprigg Shackleford, was 40 and her mother, Carrie McClure, was 31. She married John D Harlan on 15 April 1913, in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1936 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1940 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States in 1950. She died on 1 April 1980, at the age of 89, and was buried in Gunnison, Gunnison, Colorado, 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.
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
On April 20, 1914, the Colorado national Guard and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards, attacked striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, killing 25 people, including miners, women, and children.
English: variant of Shackelford .
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