When Isabella Reta Tweedlie was born about 1909, in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Patrick Tweedlie, was 44 and her mother, Catherine Mary Wilson, was 41. She lived in Moundsville, Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1930 and Washington District, Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died about 1962, at the age of 55, and was buried in Mount Rose Cemetery, Moundsville, Marshall, West Virginia, United States.
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Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
The Leith dockers strike was a strike that brought the town of Leith to a standstill after dock workers demanded an increase in pay, better working conditions, and shorter hours. The strike had an effect on the local community by not allowing trade to flow smoothly out of the docks. There totaled around 4,600 people a part of the strikes and riots but it ended near the middle of August with no demands met. since then two more strikes would happen at the same location, once in 1983 and, most recently, in 1989.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Scottish (southern): habitational name from Tweedie, a place in the parish of Stonehouse, south of Glasgow, the name of which is of uncertain origin. This name has been established in Ulster since the early 17th century. In England this name may have become confused with Twiddy .
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