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Melba Postema 1905 - 1979

Melba Postema of Paradise, Butte County, California was born on June 24, 1905, and died at age 74 years old in December 1979.

Melba Postema
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Paradise, Butte County, California 95969
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June 24, 1905
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December 1979
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In 1905, in the year that Melba Postema 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 1920, at the age of merely 15 years old, Melba was alive when the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passed both Houses of Congress and was sent to the States to ratify. In August, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the Amendment and it became law eight days later. Mississippi ratified it in 1984.
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Postema, J Harris (Dec 23, 1915 - Mar 29, 2000) Postema, Thomas (Mar 25, 1893 - Aug 1977) Postema, Wilford (May 7, 1926 - Nov 9, 1992) Postema, Herman (Jan 2, 1920 - Jul 1984) Postema, Samuel (Jun 4, 1915 - Jul 4, 2005) Postema, Violet (Jul 13, 1913 - May 8, 1990) Postema, Ettie (Dec 28, 1886 - Apr 1968) Postema, Jean (Jun 30, 1932 - Dec 25, 2000) Postema, Melvin (Apr 14, 1926 - Mar 26, 2005) Postema, Paula (Dec 9, 1902 - Mar 22, 2007)
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