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Retha M Holmes 1903 - 2002

Retha M Holmes of Fredericktown, Madison County, MO was born on July 18, 1903, and died at age 99 years old on August 17, 2002.

Retha M Holmes
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In 1903, in the year that Retha M Holmes was born, the book The Souls of Black Folk, written by W. E. B. Du Bois, was published. Containing several essays on the African-American experience in America, much of the book was based on Du Bois' own life. The book was one of the very early works in the science of sociology.
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In 1925, she was 22 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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VanTassel, Bethel (Born Feb 19, 1909) Holmes, Martha (Born Mar 9, 1877) Holmes, Ceta (Born Apr 9, 1916) Mc Farlane, La Verna  (Born Jan 28, 1914) Kroetch, Marian (Apr 21, 1929 - Sep 5, 1995) Holmes, John (Born Jun 17, 1832) Holmes, Clarissa (Born Oct 22, 1837) Holmes, Clarissa Angella (Born Oct 22, 1837) Holmes, Alma (Born May 21, 1872) Holmes, Charles (Born 1940)
Holmes, George (Born 1910) Holmes, Oscar (Born Feb 10, 1861) Holmes, Myrtle Joyce (Born Dec 26, 1870) Holmes, Keith (Born Jan 21, 1898) Dunkin-Holmes, Carrie (Born Sep 11, 1869) Holmes, Benjamin (Born Jun 28, 1861) Holmes, Porter (Sep 2, 1894 - Sep 15, 1969) Holmes, Jefferson (Born Dec 9, 1827) Musselwhite, Hallie (Feb 20, 1933 - May 25, 1993) Holmes, Barbara (Born 1935)
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