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Ruth W Parks 1916 - 1996

Ruth W Parks of Tucson, Pima County, AZ was born on May 4, 1916, and died at age 79 years old in January 1996.
Ruth W Parks
Tucson, Pima County, AZ 85714
May 4, 1916
January 1996
Female
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  • 05/4
    1916

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    May 4, 1916
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  • 01/dd
    1996

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    January 1996
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    Ruth W Parks lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1916, in the year that Ruth W Parks 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, at the age of 27 years old, Ruth was alive 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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