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Bessie W Verdell 1917 - 2007

Bessie W Verdell of Columbus, Lowndes County, MS was born on November 13, 1917, and died at age 89 years old on January 22, 2007.

Bessie W Verdell

Columbus, Lowndes County, MS 39701

November 13, 1917

January 22, 2007

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1917

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November 13, 1917

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2007

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January 22, 2007

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In 1917, in the year that Bessie W Verdell was born, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."

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In 1924, by the time she was merely 7 years old, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

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