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Loretta West 1905 - 1983

Loretta West of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on January 26, 1905, and died at age 78 years old in August 1983.
Loretta West
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60616
January 26, 1905
August 1983
Female
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Loretta West's History: 1905 - 1983

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    1905

    Birthday

    January 26, 1905
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  • 08/dd
    1983

    Death

    August 1983
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    Loretta West lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1905, in the year that Loretta West 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 1915, by the time she was merely 10 years old, the Superior Court in Fulton County Georgia accepted the charter for the establishment of the new Ku Klux Klan, succeeding the Klan that flourished in the South in the late 1800's. This iteration of the Klan adopted white clothing and used many of the code words from the first Klan, adding cross burnings and mass marches in an attempt to intimidate others.
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