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Bessie Russell 1899 - 1983

Bessie Russell of Benjamin, Knox County, Texas was born on April 24, 1899, and died at age 84 years old in July 1983.
Bessie Russell
Benjamin, Knox County, Texas 79505
April 24, 1899
July 1983
Female
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Bessie Russell's History: 1899 - 1983

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  • 04/24
    1899

    Birthday

    April 24, 1899
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  • 07/dd
    1983

    Death

    July 1983
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    Bessie Russell lived 12 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1899, in the year that Bessie Russell was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1909, at the age of merely 10 years old, Bessie was alive when the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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