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Edith Burke 1917 - 2000

Edith Burke of Ragland, Mingo County, WV was born on November 14, 1917, and died at age 82 years old on March 26, 2000.
Edith Burke
Ragland, Mingo County, WV 25690
November 14, 1917
March 26, 2000
Female
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Edith Burke's History: 1917 - 2000

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  • 11/14
    1917

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    November 14, 1917
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  • 03/26
    2000

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    March 26, 2000
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    Edith Burke lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1917, in the year that Edith Burke was born, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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In 1933, she was 16 years old when on December 5th, the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. The 21st Amendment said "The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed." Alcohol was legal again! It was the only amendment to the Constitution approved for the explicit purpose of repealing a previously existing amendment. South Carolina was the only state to reject the Amendment.
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