The Charles Williams Family


Charles Williams
Charles Williams
Cora Bates Williams
Cora Bates Williams
Cora Bates Williams
Cora Bates Williams


Charles Williams
Born August 4, 1892 in Waynesboro, GA
Died May 16, 1966 in Philadelphia, PA
Married Cora Bates
Born 1896 in Georgia
Died 1965 in Philadelphia, PA
Children
Charles Williams Jr.
Robert Williams
Levi Williams

Historical Events during Charles and Cora Bates Williams Lifetime

  • Grover Cleveland was President of the United States when Cora Bates Williams was born
  • Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States when Charles and Cora Bates Williams died
  • 1900 US population is 75,994,575; African American population is 8,833,994 (11.6%)
  • Frederick Douglass dies in Washington, DC, February 20, 1895
  • Thurgood Marshall born July 2, 1908 in Baltimore, MD
  • NAACP founded February 12, 1909
  • Harriet Tubman dies March 10, 1913
  • April 6, 1917 US enters World War 1
  • December, 1927 Marcus Garvey deported as an 'undesirable' alien
  • President John F. Kennedy was assasinated in November, 1963
  • Prohibition started in 1920 and lasted until 1933
  • America enters WWII after Pearl Harbor is bombed on December 7, 1941
  • The Atom bomb was dropped on Hirsoshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August, 1945, ending WWII 1