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Bessie John 1897 - 1983

Bessie John of Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon was born on July 30, 1897, and died at age 85 years old in January 1983.

Bessie John

Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon 97526

July 30, 1897

January 1983

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In 1897, in the year that Bessie John was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".

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In 1905, when she was merely 8 years old, 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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