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Ellen Cartagena 1952 - 1981

Ellen Cartagena was born on October 28, 1952, and died at age 28 years old in May 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ellen Cartagena.
Ellen Cartagena
October 28, 1952
May 1981
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Ellen Cartagena's History: 1952 - 1981

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  • 10/28
    1952

    Birthday

    October 28, 1952
    Birthdate
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  • 05/dd
    1981

    Death

    May 1981
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Ellen Cartagena lived 40 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 28.
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In 1952, in the year that Ellen Cartagena was born, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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In 1964, at the age of just 12 years old, Ellen was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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