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Lela Willis 1905 - 1980

Lela Willis of Covington, Saint Tammany County, Louisiana was born on June 10, 1905, and died at age 75 years old in September 1980.
Lela Willis
Covington, Saint Tammany County, Louisiana 70433
June 10, 1905
September 1980
Female
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Lela Willis' History: 1905 - 1980

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  • 06/10
    1905

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    June 10, 1905
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  • 09/dd
    1980

    Death

    September 1980
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    Lela Willis lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1905, in the year that Lela Willis 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 1912, at the age of merely 7 years old, Lela was alive when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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