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Bessie Getman 1905 - 1965

Bessie Getman of Florida was born on October 26, 1905, and died at age 59 years old in June 1965.

Bessie Getman

Florida

October 26, 1905

June 1965

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Bessie Getman lived 17 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.

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In 1905, in the year that Bessie Getman was born, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.

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In 1920, Bessie was merely 15 years old when the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

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