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Eliza Sumpter 1909 - 2006

Eliza Sumpter of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on June 27, 1909, and died at age 96 years old on June 18, 2006.
Eliza Sumpter
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY 11216
June 27, 1909
June 18, 2006
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  • 06/27
    1909

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    June 27, 1909
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  • 06/18
    2006

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    June 18, 2006
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    Eliza Sumpter lived 26 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1909, in the year that Eliza Sumpter was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1917, at the age of just 8 years old, Eliza was alive when 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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