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Orpha Swanson 1905 - 1975

Orpha Swanson of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY was born on April 15, 1905, and died at age 70 years old in December 1975.
Orpha Swanson
Jamestown, Chautauqua County, NY 14701
April 15, 1905
December 1975
Female
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Orpha Swanson's History: 1905 - 1975

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  • 04/15
    1905

    Birthday

    April 15, 1905
    Birthdate
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  • 12/dd
    1975

    Death

    December 1975
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Orpha Swanson lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1905, in the year that Orpha Swanson 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, she was only 5 years old when 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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