When Abraham Kunz Cohen was born on 22 November 1869, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Simon Kunz Cohen, was 28 and his mother, Frances Bennett, was 22. He married Sadie Zelda Rosnosky on 18 June 1894, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1929 and lived in Queens Village, Queens, New York City, New York, United States in 1950 and United States in 1957. He died on 28 February 1957, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Boston, Suffolk, 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.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Meyer, Isadore, Emanuel, Moshe, Shlomo, Myer, Avi, Yehuda, Chaim.
Jewish: from Hebrew kohen ‘priest’. Priests are traditionally regarded as members of a hereditary caste descended from Aaron, brother of Moses. See also Kaplan .
Irish (Galway and Sligo): variant of Coyne .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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