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Bessie L Torain 1905 - 1989

Bessie L Torain of Cedar Grove, Orange County, NC was born on July 14, 1905, and died at age 83 years old on April 12, 1989.
Bessie L Torain
Cedar Grove, Orange County, NC 27231
July 14, 1905
April 12, 1989
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Bessie L Torain's History: 1905 - 1989

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  • 07/14
    1905

    Birthday

    July 14, 1905
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  • 04/12
    1989

    Death

    April 12, 1989
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    Cause of death
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    Bessie L Torain lived 20 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.
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In 1905, in the year that Bessie L Torain 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 1910, by the time she was just 5 years old, the Mann Act, also called the White-Slave Traffic Act, was signed into law. Its purpose was to make it a felony to engage in interstate or foreign commerce transport of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose". But the language was so broad that it was also applied to consensual sex between adults when wished.
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