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Word: sheadrick (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...white. In 1932 in Chicago died Maria Fletcher Turner, Lucian Fletcher's chocolate-colored daughter by the late slave Mary. Of all his progeny, it turned out that Maria had done the best for herself in the way of worldly goods. She had married an enterprising blackamoor named Sheadrick B. Turner who had represented Chicago's Black Belt in the Illinois State Senate. When he died in 1927, he left his widow an estate of $79,000 and a house on Chicago's South State Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Kinfolk | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

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