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Lettie Dilkey 1905 - 1975

Lettie Dilkey of El Paso, El Paso County, Texas was born on August 13, 1905, and died at age 70 years old in August 1975.
Lettie Dilkey
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas 79925
August 13, 1905
August 1975
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  • 08/13
    1905

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    August 13, 1905
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  • 08/dd
    1975

    Death

    August 1975
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    Lettie Dilkey lived 8 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 69.
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In 1905, in the year that Lettie Dilkey 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 1914, Lettie was just 9 years old when President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.
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