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Opal Channel 1909 - 1986

Opal Channel of Laneville, Rusk County, Texas was born on January 2, 1909, and died at age 77 years old in August 1986.
Opal Channel
Laneville, Rusk County, Texas 75667
January 2, 1909
August 1986
Female
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    1909

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    January 2, 1909
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    1986

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    August 1986
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In 1909, in the year that Opal Channel was born, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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In 1919, at the age of merely 10 years old, Opal was alive when in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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