When Emma Mae Wilkerson was born on 19 December 1868, in Missouri, United States, her father, John William Wilkerson, was 28 and her mother, Margaret E Minter, was 28. She married Thomas Braffett on 9 February 1888, in Mercer, Mercer, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Washington Township, Mercer, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 13 October 1957, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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.
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 (East Anglia and South East Midlands): from Middle English Wilkeson, a shortened form of Wilkinson , ‘son of Wilkin or young William’. The -r- is intrusive.
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