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Kenneth Purkey 1909 - 1984

Kenneth Purkey of Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio was born on April 16, 1909, and died at age 75 years old in July 1984.
Kenneth Purkey
Mansfield, Richland County, Ohio 44903
April 16, 1909
July 1984
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    1909

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    April 16, 1909
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  • 07/dd
    1984

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    July 1984
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    Kenneth Purkey lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1909, in the year that Kenneth Purkey 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.
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In 1917, when he was just 8 years old, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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