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Elijah Porter 1905 - 1986

Elijah Porter of Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina was born on November 5, 1905, and died at age 81 years old in November 1986.
Elijah Porter
Rocky Mount, Edgecombe County, North Carolina 27801
November 5, 1905
November 1986
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    1905

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    November 5, 1905
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  • 11/dd
    1986

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    November 1986
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    Elijah Porter lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1905, in the year that Elijah Porter 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 1934, when he was 29 years old, on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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