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Helen Burns 1905 - 1994

Helen Burns of Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA was born on August 17, 1905, and died at age 89 years old on November 16, 1994.
Helen Burns
Wilkes Barre, Luzerne County, PA 18711
August 17, 1905
November 16, 1994
Female
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  • 08/17
    1905

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    August 17, 1905
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  • 11/16
    1994

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    November 16, 1994
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    Helen Burns lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1905, in the year that Helen Burns 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 1912, at the age of merely 7 years old, Helen was alive when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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