Ethel's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Allen family tree.

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Ethel's Parents

William Tasker

Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker

Ethel Rosina (Tasker) Allen

Bill Tasker

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William Tasker

Nov 26, 1879 - 1933

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Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker

Jun 30, 1882 - 1956

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Bill Tasker

Mar 24, 1906 - c. 1932

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Ethel's Parents

William Tasker

Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker

Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning Ethel Rosina (Tasker) Allen

Bill Tasker

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William Tasker

Nov 26, 1879 - 1933

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Mary Ann (Jones) Tasker

Jun 30, 1882 - 1956

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Bill Tasker

Mar 24, 1906 - c. 1932

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Eileen Constance (Tasker) Benning

Feb 2, 1908 - Jan 28, 1987

Photos and snapshots taken of Ethel Rosina (Tasker) Allen, her Allen family, and locations and places or events from her life.

The Three Tasker Children

Tasker children at the beach

Ethel Rosina Tasker, Fairy

Tasker family picnic

Pratt & Tasker families, 1925

William Tasker & children 1925

Pratt & Tasker Families in 1925

Ethel Tasker age 17

Bill and Ethel Tasker

Bill & Ethel Tasker

Joyce Benning with Ethel Tasker

Ethel Rosina Tasker. 1909-1993

Mt. Ash, Wales

Connie Tasker D'Albert & Ethel Tasker Allen

William Tasker family with friends

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In 1909, in the year that Ethel Rosina (Tasker) Allen was born, 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.

In 1938, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."

In 1954, on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.

In 1968, on January 31st, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, a turning point in the Vietnam War. 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces swarmed into South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese and US troops held off the offensive but it was such fierce fighting that the U.S. public began to turn against the war.

In 1978, on November 18th, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple followers committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana - where they had moved, from San Francisco, as a group. Jones was the leader of the cult and ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced punch, which they did. Whole families (women and children included) died - more than 900 people in all.