India A Shirley
Updated Jul 14, 2017
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India A Shirley (1905 - 1989)

India A Shirley was born on January 2, 1905. She died on March 13, 1989 at 84 years old. We know that India A Shirley had been residing in North Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida.
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Average Age

India A Shirley lived 13 years longer than the average Shirley family member when she died at the age of 84.

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Shirley Plantation in Virginia

Shirley Plantation in Virginia

Alta Shirley

Alta Shirley

Mackenzie Shirley

Mackenzie Shirley

MOG Club at Ranger HS 1925

MOG Club at Ranger HS 1925

Mary (93) and John (70) Shirley 1926

Mary (93) and John (70) Shirley 1926

William Henry Shirley

William Henry Shirley

Sarah Frances Virgin

Sarah Frances Virgin

Frances and Sarah Shirley

Frances and Sarah Shirley

Fish Haven Band

Fish Haven Band

Ester Maria Bubb

Ester Maria Bubb

Ester Bubb

Ester Bubb

Alice Jennett Shirley

Alice Jennett Shirley

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Lucy, Mary, & Sarah, ca1860 Shirley Plantation in Virginia Alta Shirley Mackenzie Shirley

Timeline

1905 - In the year that India A Shirley 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.

1918 - At the age of just 13 years old, India was alive when in July, Russian revolutionaries executed the former Tzar Nicholas II and his immediate family. While it was rumored that two of the children had survived, it was later proven through DNA analysis - when their bodies were found - that the entire family had been killed.

1941 - At the age of 36 years old, India was alive when in his State of the Union address on January 6th, President Roosevelt detailed the "four freedoms" that everyone in the world should have: Freedom of speech, Freedom of worship, Freedom from want, and Freedom from fear. In the same speech, he outlined the benefits of democracy which he said were economic opportunity, employment, social security, and the promise of "adequate health care".

1947 - When she was 42 years old, on April 15th, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, playing first base. He was the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. Since the 1880's, professional baseball had been segregated and blacks played in the "Negro leagues". He went on to play for 10 years.

1989 - In the year of India A Shirley's passing, on March 24th, the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, struck a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and oil began spilling out of the hold. The oil would eventually contaminate more than a thousand miles of coastline. It is estimated that over 10.8 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Sound - killing 100,000 to 250,000 seabirds, over 2,800 sea otters, about 12 river otters, 300 harbor seals, 247 bald eagles, and 22 orcas - as well as an unknown number of salmon and herring.

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India A Shirley died on March 13, 1989 at age 84. No cause of death has been listed. She was born on January 2, 1905. We are unaware of information about India's surviving family. We know that India A Shirley had been residing in North Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida.

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