When Margaret Jane Lea was born on 14 May 1868, in Person, North Carolina, United States, her father, Wiley Ellis Lea, was 22 and her mother, Eliza Frances Riggs, was 18. She had at least 2 sons and 5 daughters with William Edward Martin. She lived in West Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1935 and Durham, Durham, North Carolina, United States in 1940. She died on 25 May 1962, at the age of 94, and was buried in Durham, Durham, North Carolina, 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.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
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.
English: variant of Lee .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 李 and 利, see Li 1 and 3.
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