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Mary Ruffin 1884 - 1979

Mary Ruffin of Medon, Madison County, Tennessee was born on August 22, 1884, and died at age 94 years old in January 1979.

Mary Ruffin

Medon, Madison County, Tennessee 38356

August 22, 1884

January 1979

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In 1884, in the year that Mary Ruffin was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.

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In 1900, by the time she was 16 years old, the U.S. helped put down Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion took place in China, where the presence of "outsiders" (foreigners) was resented. The United States, along with Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and Russia, had business interests in China and these countries all sent troops to put down the Rebellion and keep China open to their presence and to Christian missionaries.

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