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Opal Short 1905 - 1983

Opal Short of Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma was born on May 11, 1905, and died at age 77 years old in February 1983.

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Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma 73573
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In 1905, in the year that Opal Short 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 1949, at the age of 44 years old, Opal was alive when on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.
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Peckenpaugh, Catherine (Born May 27, 1850) Short, Anna (Born Aug 14, 1909) Short, Ann (Born Aug 14, 1909) Short, Carol (Born Jul 31, 1937) Short, Joanne (Born Nov 10, 1940) Short, Margaret (Born Dec 12, 1841) Short, Lester (Born Aug 17, 1899) Short, Ida (Born 1902) Short, William (Born 1870) Windham/short/duval, Mildred (Born 1842)
Short/silk, Eula (Born 1881) Short, Mamie (Jun 19, 1903 - Nov 24, 1986) Short, Robert (Born 1874) Short, Mary (Born Aug 29) Short, Marcus (Feb 9, 1844 - Sep 18, 1876) Short, Joseph (Jun 20, 1910 - Apr 17, 2001) Short, Georgeann (Born Aug 25, 1932) Mellin, George (Aug 25, 1932 - Aug 24, 2006) Short, Charles (May 22, 1891 - May 1979) Short, Alfred (Jun 7, 1916 - Mar 1987)
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