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Merri Wilkins 1955 - 1982

Merri Wilkins of Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania was born on December 18, 1955, and died at age 26 years old in January 1982.
Merri Wilkins
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 19124
December 18, 1955
January 1982
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    1955

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    December 18, 1955
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  • 01/dd
    1982

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    January 1982
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    Merri Wilkins lived 46 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 26.
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In 1955, in the year that Merri Wilkins was born, on September 30th, movie star James Dean, 24, died in a car accident. He was headed in his new Porsche 550 to a race in Salinas California when, traveling at 85 mph, he collided with a 1950 Ford Tudor, also speeding, driven by a 23 year old college student. Dean died, his passenger and the other driver survived.
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In 1964, at the age of only 9 years old, Merri was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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