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John Tillema 1905 - 1983

John Tillema of Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan was born on January 5, 1905, and died at age 78 years old in September 1983.
John Tillema
Byron Center, Kent County, Michigan 49315
January 5, 1905
September 1983
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    1905

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    January 5, 1905
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    1983

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    September 1983
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In 1905, in the year that John Tillema 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 1921, John was 16 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..
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