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Arthur Downs 1905 - 1979

Arthur Downs of Portsmouth, Rockingham County, NH was born on March 19, 1905, and died at age 74 years old in September 1979.
Arthur Downs
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, NH 03801
March 19, 1905
September 1979
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Arthur Downs' History: 1905 - 1979

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    1905

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    March 19, 1905
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  • 09/dd
    1979

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    September 1979
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    Arthur Downs lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1905, in the year that Arthur Downs 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 1914, he was only 9 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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