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Bessie Coates 1886 - 1984

Bessie Coates of Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia was born on August 17, 1886, and died at age 98 years old in August 1984.

Bessie Coates

Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia 22560

August 17, 1886

August 1984

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In 1886, in the year that Bessie Coates was born, on May 4th, a general strike began in Chicago. Workers were striking for an 8 hour workday and in protest of the killing - by police - of several workers the day before. When an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb, the strike became violent. Seven policemen were killed as well as 4 civilians. It became known as the Haymarket Riot and eventually resulted in an 8 hourwork day as well as commemorations on May 1st for worker's rights.

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In 1916, she was 30 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

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