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Letha Blackney 1905 - 1969

Letha Blackney of Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia was born on August 11, 1905, and died at age 64 years old in August 1969.
Letha Blackney
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia 26003
August 11, 1905
August 1969
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Letha Blackney's History: 1905 - 1969

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    1905

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    August 11, 1905
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  • 08/dd
    1969

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    August 1969
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    Letha Blackney lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.
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In 1905, in the year that Letha Blackney 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 1916, she was just 11 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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