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Bessie Smith 1890 - 1981

Bessie Smith of Nappanee, Elkhart County, Indiana was born on November 12, 1890, and died at age 91 years old in December 1981.
Bessie Smith
Nappanee, Elkhart County, Indiana 46550
November 12, 1890
December 1981
Female
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    1890

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    November 12, 1890
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    1981

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    December 1981
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In 1890, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on January 2nd, Alice Sanger became the first female staffer to work in the White House. She was hired as a stenographer and, as such, took dictation.
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In 1905, she was merely 15 years old 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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