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Martha Hughes 1897 - 1987

Martha Hughes of Mena, Polk County, AR was born on September 23, 1897, and died at age 90 years old on October 31, 1987.
Martha Hughes
Mena, Polk County, AR 71953
September 23, 1897
October 31, 1987
Female
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Martha Hughes' History: 1897 - 1987

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  • 09/23
    1897

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    September 23, 1897
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  • 10/31
    1987

    Death

    October 31, 1987
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    Martha Hughes lived 18 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1897, in the year that Martha Hughes was born, on September 21st, editor and publisher Francis P. Church responded to a letter to the editor from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8 years old. Virginia's father had told her that "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." So she wrote to the Sun, asking if there was a Santa Claus. Church responded with the now famous editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus".
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In 1905, she was only 8 years old when 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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