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Bessie Shires 1891 - 1976

Bessie Shires of Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois was born on March 25, 1891, and died at age 85 years old in August 1976.

Bessie Shires
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Rock Island, Rock Island County, Illinois 61201
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In 1891, in the year that Bessie Shires was born, on March 14th, a lynch mob stormed the Old Parish Prison. The mob lynched 11 of the 19 Italians who were arrested for - but found to be innocent of - the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.
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In 1905, at the age of just 14 years old, Bessie was alive when 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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Shires, Bessie (Mar 18, 1886 - Sep 1970) Shires, Bessie (May 28, 1902 - Apr 8, 1994) Shires, Bessie (Aug 16, 1909 - May 1973)
Shires, Bessie (Sep 7, 1885 - Aug 1977) Shires, Bessie (Apr 12, 1899 - Mar 1974)

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Shires, Gilbert (Jan 28, 1904 - Mar 1980) Shires, Annie (May 30, 1887 - Dec 1974) Shires, Henry (Feb 1, 1913 - Aug 1980) Shires, Marielle (Nov 24, 1940 - Mar 1980) Shires, William (Jul 3, 1881 - Oct 1962) Shires, Philip (Apr 10, 1914 - May 1974) Shires, Lucille (Oct 24, 1926 - Aug 13, 2006) Shires, Helen (Dec 9, 1916 - Feb 11, 2010) Shires, Patricia (Oct 7, 1932 - Dec 8, 2009) Shires, Bessie (Apr 12, 1899 - Mar 1974)
Shires, Madeline (Oct 16, 1914 - Apr 1984) Shires, Lillian (Oct 11, 1911 - Feb 1982) Shires, Herman (Sep 28, 1910 - Nov 2, 1989) Shires, Edward (Aug 28, 1884 - Sep 1967) Shires, Cyril (May 30, 1906 - Sep 1980) Shires, Christine (May 26, 1916 - Feb 27, 1999) Shires, Jane (Oct 15, 1911 - Jan 17, 1988) Shires, Frank (Feb 11, 1923 - Mar 25, 1990) Shires, Sara (Apr 30, 1915 - Jul 3, 2000) Shires, Norma (May 28, 1931 - Dec 20, 1996)
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