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Ruth E Ruiter 1916 - 1997

Ruth E Ruiter of Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI was born on November 27, 1916, and died at age 80 years old on January 10, 1997.
Ruth E Ruiter
Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI 49508
November 27, 1916
January 10, 1997
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  • 11/27
    1916

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    November 27, 1916
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  • 01/10
    1997

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    January 10, 1997
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    Ruth E Ruiter lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1916, in the year that Ruth E Ruiter was born, 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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In 1943, she was 27 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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