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Ara Burks 1884 - 1973

Ara Burks of Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi was born on January 25, 1884, and died at age 89 years old in November 1973.
Ara Burks
Tylertown, Walthall County, Mississippi 39667
January 25, 1884
November 1973
Female
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Ara Burks' History: 1884 - 1973

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    1884

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    January 25, 1884
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  • 11/dd
    1973

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    November 1973
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    Ara Burks lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1884, in the year that Ara Burks was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1903, she was 19 years old when the book The Souls of Black Folk, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published. Containing several essays on the African-American experience in America, much of the book was based on Du Bois' own life. The book was one of the very early works in the science of sociology.
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