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Edna Pettus 1894 - 1973

Edna Pettus of Bronx, Bronx County, NY was born on July 19, 1894, and died at age 78 years old in June 1973.

Edna Pettus

Bronx, Bronx County, NY 10474

July 19, 1894

June 1973

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Edna Pettus lived 7 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.

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In 1894, in the year that Edna Pettus was born, large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.

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In 1909, at the age of merely 15 years old, Edna 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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