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Leona M Davis 1905 - 1994

Leona M Davis of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on October 6, 1905, and died at age 88 years old on January 27, 1994.
Leona M Davis
Portland, Multnomah County, OR 97211
October 6, 1905
January 27, 1994
Female
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  • 10/6
    1905

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    October 6, 1905
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  • 01/27
    1994

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    January 27, 1994
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    Leona M Davis lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1905, in the year that Leona M Davis 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 1942, by the time she was 37 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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