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Elma Rust 1905 - 2004

Elma Rust of Arvada, Jefferson County, CO was born on August 22, 1905, and died at age 98 years old on February 14, 2004.
Elma Rust
Arvada, Jefferson County, CO 80004
August 22, 1905
February 14, 2004
Female
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  • 08/22
    1905

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    August 22, 1905
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  • 02/14
    2004

    Death

    February 14, 2004
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    Elma Rust lived 24 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 98.
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In 1905, in the year that Elma Rust 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 1922, she was 17 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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