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Lucretia Duke 1914 - 1983

Lucretia Duke of Durham, Durham County, North Carolina was born on February 8, 1914, and died at age 69 years old in March 1983.
Lucretia Duke
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina 27705
February 8, 1914
March 1983
Female
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Lucretia Duke's History: 1914 - 1983

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  • 02/8
    1914

    Birthday

    February 8, 1914
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  • 03/dd
    1983

    Death

    March 1983
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    Lucretia Duke lived 3 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1914, in the year that Lucretia Duke was born, 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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In 1925, she was merely 11 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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