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Bess R Cohen 1905 - 1991

Bess R Cohen of Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ was born on January 11, 1905, and died at age 86 years old on July 5, 1991.
Bess R Cohen
Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ 85015
January 11, 1905
July 5, 1991
Female
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  • 01/11
    1905

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    January 11, 1905
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  • 07/5
    1991

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    July 5, 1991
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In 1905, in the year that Bess R Cohen 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 1911, Bess was merely 6 years old when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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