Brief Life History of Fannie Lee
When Fannie Lee Harbin was born on 12 March 1894, in Georgia, United States, her father, Joseph Nathanial Harbin, was 32 and her mother, Laura Victoria Darnell, was 27. She had at least 2 sons with Jasper Riley Lawson. She lived in Nelson, Cherokee, Georgia, United States for about 30 years and Fairhope, Washington, Alabama, United States in 1971. She died on 11 December 1986, at the age of 92, and was buried in Nelson, Cherokee, Georgia, United States.
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- Fannie H Lawson, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: FANNIE LEE HARBIN - Individual or family possessions: birth: 12 March 1894;
- Fannie Lee Harben Lawson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Harborne (Staffordshire), from Old English horu ‘filth, dirt’ + burna ‘spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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