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Cora B Wells 1905 - 1993

Cora B Wells of Tacoma, Pierce County, WA was born on July 17, 1905, and died at age 88 years old on August 10, 1993.
Cora B Wells
Tacoma, Pierce County, WA 98405
July 17, 1905
August 10, 1993
Female
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Cora B Wells' History: 1905 - 1993

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  • 07/17
    1905

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    July 17, 1905
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  • 08/10
    1993

    Death

    August 10, 1993
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    Cora B Wells lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1905, in the year that Cora B Wells 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 1943, by the time she was 38 years old, 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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