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May R Arkus 1905 - 1993

May R Arkus of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on June 21, 1905, and died at age 88 years old on September 12, 1993.
May R Arkus
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60646
June 21, 1905
September 12, 1993
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May R Arkus' History: 1905 - 1993

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  • 06/21
    1905

    Birthday

    June 21, 1905
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  • 09/12
    1993

    Death

    September 12, 1993
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    May R Arkus lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1905, in the year that May R Arkus 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 1916, May was just 11 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.
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