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Sylvester Speight 1882 - 1962

Sylvester Speight of North Carolina was born on November 13, 1882, and died at age 79 years old in July 1962.

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In 1882, in the year that Sylvester Speight was born, on August 3rd, President Chester Arthur signed the 1882 Immigration Act. "Criminals, the insane, or any person unable to take care of him or herself" were not allowed in the U.S. according to the Act. It also imposed a "head tax" on non-citizens entering the U.S.
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In 1905, at the age of 23 years old, Sylvester was alive 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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Speight, Walter (Born c. 1894) Speight, Francis (Jul 29, 1904 - Sep 1973) Speight, Margaret (Mar 23, 1912 - Sep 1984) Speight, James (Sep 2, 1925 - Sep 27, 1997) Speight, Ella (May 2, 1898 - Apr 20, 2003) Speight, Gayle (Aug 3, 1957 - Feb 26, 2008) Speight, Edgar (Nov 25, 1913 - Jan 1974) Speight, Isabelle (Apr 26, 1906 - May 1976) Speight, Mary (Oct 28, 1894 - May 1976) Speight, Matthew (Dec 13, 1947 - Jan 26, 2007)
Speight, Mimi (Jan 6, 1952 - Aug 3, 2005) Speight, John (Oct 30, 1900 - Dec 1971) Speight, Ivy (Dec 31, 1911 - May 26, 2007) Speight, Thomas (Jul 30, 1931 - May 25, 1998) Speight, Joseph (Aug 25, 1917 - Mar 1981) Speight, Jean (Mar 5, 1894 - Jan 1971) Speight, Emily (Jul 17, 1900 - Jan 1985) Speight, John (Feb 13, 1922 - Dec 1982) Speight, Helen (Oct 8, 1902 - Dec 20, 1990) Speight, Catherine (Sep 22, 1898 - Jan 1979)
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