Brief Life History of Nellie Belle
When Nellie Belle Dotson was born on 16 December 1868, in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, her father, Alexander Dotson, was 43 and her mother, Catharine Downing, was 40. She lived in Cleveland Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 20 November 1957, at the age of 88.
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- Nellie Dotson in household of Alexander Dotson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Nellie in entry for Alexander Dotson, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
- Nellie B Dotson in household of Alexander Dotson, "United States Census, 1880"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English (Cornwall): variant of Dodson , with devoicing of the second consonant. Alternatively, the name may be a variant of Dutson , another variant of Dodson with devoicing of the second consonant before voiceless /s/.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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